CONTRIBUTIONS OF YORUBA MUSICIANS TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF NIGERIAN POPULAR MUSIC

Funso Fagbile, Blessing Amole

Abstract


Nigerian music as it is today has produced many kinds of art, religious, folk and popular music, some of which are known to be spread around the world. Ogisi (2005) classified Nigerian music into traditional, art, religious and popular music. He stressed further that traditional music is ethnic based and integral to culture, art music is contemplative music for aesthetic enjoyment, religious music is performed for religious activities in and outside the religious centers such as church, while popular music is essentially entertainment music. Nigerian popular music is further subdivided into two types: those in which Islamic musical element fused with African traditional music and those in which African idioms fused with elements of western music such as juju and highlife (Euba, 1989:14).

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