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Popular Music in Western
Nigeria: Theme, Style and Patronage by Bode
Omojola 153 pages, ISBN 979-10-92312-23-2 $24.00 per copy plus shipping |
This book discusses the growth of
popular music in western Nigeria, focusing on social themes, musical styles, and
the contexts and ways in which the music has been performed, enjoyed and
interpreted since the colonial era. In addition to analyzing specific works by
musicians like Ambrose Campbell, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, Victor Olaiya, Haruna
Ishola and Abolore Adegbo
la Akande (aka 9ice), the book devotes substantial attention to how popular
music in western Nigeria has been disseminated and nurtured in nightclubs in
cities like Lagos and Ibadan. Omojola combines the methods of historiography,
ethnography and musical analysis to generate a concise study that effectively
discusses the integral relationships between musical styles, social practices
and political developments in western Nigeria.
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Defining Popular Music: Western Models and African Perspectives
1 Indigenous Music is Popular Music: Cultural and Social Identity in
Nigerian Traditional Music
2 Historical and Cultural Background Popular Music in Nigeria
3 Performers, Musical Styles, and Social Themes
4 Nightclubs and Popular Music
Summary and Conclusion
Appendixes
Selected Discography
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Bode Omojola teaches African music, world music, and ethnomusicology at Mount Holyoke College and the other institutions of the Five College Consortium, namely, Amherst College, Hampshire College, Smith College and the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. A former Radcliffe Institute Fellow in Musicology at Harvard University, Bode Omojola is the founding secretary of the Musicological Society of Nigeria (now Association of Nigerian Musicologists).
