FOLK MUSIC IN NIGERIAN SECONDARY SCHOOLS’ MUSIC PEDAGOGY: CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS

Hope Okpala

Abstract


Music is an integral part of every Nigerian culture; and a valuable tool in character moulding. Okafor (2013) sees it as humanly organized sound. Music is an important agent that cannot be neglected because of its effect on the social, emotional, moral, physical and economic life of an individual. Okpala (2006) asserts that: Music is part of living; it has power to awaken in us sensations and emotions of a spiritual kind; music can do many things and have desirable results. It can stimulate or sooth the mind, help towards a wider education, of at least a wider mental perspective. It can gently plough the mind so that it will be more receptive to the seed of learning (p. 1) Okonkwo (2006) submits that music is part of life and an art that is deeply rooted in human nature. She goes further to state that: The national commission for collages of education, in its minimum standards, affirms that music has the potential of being one of the most valuable subjects for enhancing human personality, and it becomes very obvious that the study of music is indispensable for the development of Nigeria child, society and the entire nation (p.169).

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