STATE OF UNIVERSAL BASIC MUSIC EDUCATION IN KOGI STATE JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS

Abstract

Music education is described by Anya-Njoku (2007) as an educational process which entails the acquisition of knowledge, skills and attitudes in music that will foster the interest and ability of the learner to be useful to himself and his society musically (p.56). Adeogun (2006) declared that “music education is a discipline that helps prepare personnel that are technically competent in music making and capable of managing/mediating, interaction between man, music and society†(p.105).