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- Title
The Indigenization of Military Music in Nigeria.
- Authors
OLATUNJI, MICHAEL OLUTAYO
- Abstract
This essay investigates the development of European-style military music as practised in Nigeria with regard to the influence of its indegenization processes by its practitioners on the Nigerian soil. The areas in which the development is discussed include the new roles and functions of performance, the new thematic sources of military music arrangers, instrumentation, the stylistic and technical bases for orchestration as well as the overall institution of military music in Nigeria. It also raises an argument on the parameters for judging the African identity in a contemporary Nigerian military music composition and those of its allied genres. The essay concludes inter alia that, by virtue of its new contexts of performance as well as performance structure, Nigerian military music has shifted from being a substratum of the European music tradition in Nigeria to being a substratum of contemporary music on the Nigerian music scene.
- Subjects
NIGERIA; MILITARY music; THEMES in music; MUSICAL composition; MUSICAL performance; SUBSTRATUM (Linguistics)
- Publication
Matatu: Journal for African Culture & Society, 2012, Vol 40, Issue 1, p427
- ISSN
0932-9714
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1163/18757421-040001028