MUSICAL ARTS EDUCATION AND ITS CHALLENGES IN THE NEW MEDIA ERA OF MUSIC JOURNALISM IN NIGERIA

Abstract

This paper focuses on the practices in the new media era of music journalism in Nigeria in relation to the old paradigm of Journaling music. The emergence of internet has brought all most a total shift of music journalism that was formerly presented in print, radio and television. For over a decade now, the online trending practices of music journalism in Nigeria have both positively and negatively affected the profession which includes the easy entry and exit. Employing descriptive research design, this study aims to showcase the trending practices of online music journalism in Nigeria. The study further discusses the challenges in the new media era and thus, suggests the ways to restructure the ideas through music education with regard to the standard of the old paradigm of music journalism in Nigeria.