Folk music in Nigeria: a communion
Abstract
- Abstract
- Folk music in Nigeria evolved as a corporate communal experience. It has been sustained as such, and continues to expand and enrich its resources as it crumbles ethnic barriers, incorporating broader geographical communities as it extends its ethnic identity. By this is postulated that folk music had narrow ethnic identities. Then through human tendencies of social interaction, direct borrowing and unconscious assimilation folk music began to identify larger ethnic unions in style and content. More recently, as a result of improved communication, education, other agencies of modern civilisation and neo-cultural aspirations, folk music areas in Nigeria are diffusing more and more into one another to form larger homogeneous blocks.
Description
- Description
- pages: 6-21
Subjects
People & roles
- Author
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Nzewi, Meki
Value Annotations
Value Annotations
- Is Part Of
- University of Nigeria, Nsukka
Origins & context
- Title
- Folk music in Nigeria: a communion
- Type
- Text
- Language
- English
- Parent project
- International Library of African Music
- is funded by
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Rhodes University
- Place of Origin
- South Africa
- Created Date
- July 1, 1980
Rights & access
- License
- CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0
- Access Rights
- Public
Identifiers & sources
- DRE ID
- eaa-99-0211
- Identifier
-
1091
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- Type
- Publisher, distributor, or vendor stock number
Further details
- WissKI URL
- 79067