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Folk Music and Dance in African Education

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2019

Mosunmola Omibiyi
Mosunmola Omibiyi*
Affiliation:
Institute of African Studies, University Ife, Ibadan, Nigeria
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The increasing encroachment of technology and industrialization on folk traditions of the world has given great impact to the struggle for their preservation and continuity. Scholars in such fields as anthropology, folklore, enthnomusicology, to mention a few, continue in their search for the best solution to this problem. An approach in years past, and to a great extent recently, has been ironically by documentation on tapes, on phonographs, on paper and even in motion and still pictures, all of which are products of technology.

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Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council , Volume 4 , 1972 , pp. 87 - 94
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Copyright © 1973 By the International Folk Music Council 

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1. This comment is based largely on the writer's personal experience in Nigeria.Google Scholar

2. Traditional music education in Africa has been extensively discussed by numerous writers. To mention a few: SEE References Cited Below.Google Scholar

3. Musical literacy in this context means the acquisition of performance skills, interpretation and creation of traditional music, ability to analyze traditional music structurally, historically and contexrually, cultural attitudes for the fullest awareness and profoundest appreciation of the enduring qualities of traditional music. These insights and abilities can, of course, be beneficially applied to the study of other musical cultures.Google Scholar

References Cited: Jean M. Herskovits, The Human Factor in Changing Africa (New York, 1967); Graham Hyslop, “Music Education in Africa,” Composer (London) 19 (Spring 1966), 22–25; J.H.K. Nketia, “Continuity of Traditional Instruction,” in Traditional Forms of the Music of the Orient and the Occident, William Archer, Ed. (Paris: UNESCO, 1961), 203–213; E.M. Smith, “Musical Training in Tribal West Africa,” African Music 3, No. 1 (1962), 6–10; Fela Sowande, “Nigerian Music and Musicians, Then and Now,” Composer 19 (Spring 1966), 25–34; Klaus P. Wachsmann, “Negritude in Music,” Ibid, 12–16; Klaus P. Wachsmann, “Problems of Musical Statigraphy in Africa,” Collogues de Wegemont (1958). Google Scholar