popular music,popular music genre- any genre of music having wide appeal (but usually only for a short time) expressive style,style- a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period; "all the repor...
In Nigeria’s port of Lagos, palm-wine music was foremost a song tradition. Roughly, it was a coupling of the melodic and rhythmic contours of European hymn singing with the textual aesthetics of Yoruba proverb- and praise-singing, all performed to the accompaniment of a banjo or guitar (...
MUSIC: Nigeriadoi:10.1111/j.1467-825X.2009.02447.xJohn Wiley & Sons, Ltd.Africa Research Bulletin Political Social & Cultural
The genre's local roots are meaningful to Nairobi's next generation of creators. In Kenya, other international music like Nigeria's Afrobeats and Tanzania's bongo fava had long dominated radios and clubs. But that all changed in 2018, when gengetone emerged and became the first homegro...
playing all cards Nigeria: Is Tinubu shoring up support in his South West political base?Amidst an unprecedented economic hardship that has caused suffering to millions, President Bola Tinubu is turning to his kinsmen for support.
echo those of previous research indicating that music is a universal language that transcends culture and genre, say the researchers. This includes traditional music forms, such as pilgrimage songs in Nigeria, high-life drumming in Ghana, singing bowl music in India, and five-element music in ...
The article presents an overview of several music releases which have been created by singer Sade, who was born Helen Folasade Adu in Nigeria. In the article the author offers her opinions on the reasons behind Sade's success and on the songs that are contained in sever...
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popular music,popular music genre- any genre of music having wide appeal (but usually only for a short time) expressive style,style- a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period; "all the repor...
By about 1925, the word Highlife was coined in the context of elite dance orchestras which sometimes played African tunes using Western orchestration.In Nigeria, brass band music of military and regimental bands stationed in West Africa during the World War periods inspired the formation of ...