The emergence of soul music in Nigeria represents the flowering of the transatlantic intercourseb... more The emergence of soul music in Nigeria represents the flowering of the transatlantic intercoursebetween Nigeria and the Americas in respect of music. Soul music was a socio-musicalbombshell that impacted several aspects of Nigeria’s music and her social life and left enduringlegacies thereby. Over the years, very few attempts have been made within Nigerian scholarlycircles to explicate its impact and legacies, thus creating a yawning gap in these aspects ofliterature on popular music in Nigeria. It is this gap that this study seeks to fill. While the paperis largely descriptive, it is spiced with context analysis that derives from secondary and primarydata. Primary data were obtained from interviews of musicians, participant and non-participantobservations, listening to recordings while secondary data were gleaned from books, journals,seminar papers, newspapers and magazines. This paper reports that Soul introduced a newharmonic sequence, ensemble format, enthroned originality as a ...
Nigeria’s triple music heritage of traditional, Islamic and Western music should have informed he... more Nigeria’s triple music heritage of traditional, Islamic and Western music should have informed her formal music education curriculum. Instead, western music was used by the early Christian missionaries that it became difficult to integrate indigenous music traditions into the curriculum that music could not gain traction as a school subject across the country. In an effort to correct the defect a bi-musical curriculum of western and African traditional music was designed by the Nsukka Music School (NMS). Although the change was epistemologically right, the bi-musical curriculum confronted numerous challenges during implementation. This paper identifies the challenges and discusses how they were addressed. Data were obtained through interviews with key informants and a review of relevant literature. The challenge of stereotyping music and musicians was solved by students proving their mettle among their peers. Non-acceptance of music within the academia and society, was not addressed...
The emergence of soul music in Nigeria represents the flowering of the transatlantic intercourseb... more The emergence of soul music in Nigeria represents the flowering of the transatlantic intercoursebetween Nigeria and the Americas in respect of music. Soul music was a socio-musicalbombshell that impacted several aspects of Nigeria’s music and her social life and left enduringlegacies thereby. Over the years, very few attempts have been made within Nigerian scholarlycircles to explicate its impact and legacies, thus creating a yawning gap in these aspects ofliterature on popular music in Nigeria. It is this gap that this study seeks to fill. While the paperis largely descriptive, it is spiced with context analysis that derives from secondary and primarydata. Primary data were obtained from interviews of musicians, participant and non-participantobservations, listening to recordings while secondary data were gleaned from books, journals,seminar papers, newspapers and magazines. This paper reports that Soul introduced a newharmonic sequence, ensemble format, enthroned originality as a ...
Nigeria’s triple music heritage of traditional, Islamic and Western music should have informed he... more Nigeria’s triple music heritage of traditional, Islamic and Western music should have informed her formal music education curriculum. Instead, western music was used by the early Christian missionaries that it became difficult to integrate indigenous music traditions into the curriculum that music could not gain traction as a school subject across the country. In an effort to correct the defect a bi-musical curriculum of western and African traditional music was designed by the Nsukka Music School (NMS). Although the change was epistemologically right, the bi-musical curriculum confronted numerous challenges during implementation. This paper identifies the challenges and discusses how they were addressed. Data were obtained through interviews with key informants and a review of relevant literature. The challenge of stereotyping music and musicians was solved by students proving their mettle among their peers. Non-acceptance of music within the academia and society, was not addressed...
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