MUSIC COMPOSERS’ CHALLENGES IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY NIGERIA: THE RETRIEVAL RESEARCH STRATEGY (R.R.S.) AS A LEEWAY

Alvan-Ikoku Nwamara, Jude Nnam

Abstract


Nigerian music/composition, Nigerian musicologists/musicians/composers or Nigerian musicology and so on, are not new terminologies in any part of the globe in recent times. Much has been said and documented on these terminologies and most Nigerians who have been deeply committed to each of the terms have so far done Africa proud in various capacities in their various chosen fields. This paper seeks to enumerate the challenges facing Nigerian composers in modern times and further present the Retrieval Research Strategy (RRS) which Nwamara and Chukwu (2011) present as the systematic retrieval of all research works on Nigerian/Nigerian musicology from institutions, libraries, shelves etc., and looking into them in order to utilize and implement the observations, suggestions and recommendations thereof.

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