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The music of Nigeria includes many kinds of folk and popular music. Little of the country's music history prior to European contact has been preserved, although bronze carvings dating back to the 16th and 17th centuries have been found depicting musicians and their instruments. [1] The country's most internationally renowned genres are ...
In music, call and response is a compositional technique, often a succession of two distinct phrases that works like a conversation in music. One musician offers a phrase, and a second player answers with a direct commentary or response. The phrases can be vocal, instrumental, or both. [ 1 ]
Indigenous Nigerian music is the music originating from the various indigenous tribes of Nigeria. It encompasses mainly traditional music styles, although some forms have absorbed partial influences from genres performed by immigrant and foreign musicians.
Sub-Saharan African music traditions. Drumming and dancing at Dakawa, Morogoro, Tanzania. In many parts of sub-Saharan Africa, the use of music is not limited to entertainment: it serves a purpose to the local community and helps in the conduct of daily routines. Traditional African music supplies appropriate music and dance for work and for ...
Fuji. Fújì is a genre of Yoruba popular music that emerged in Nigeria in the 1960s. It evolved from the improvisational wéré music also known as ajísari (meaning "waking up for sari ", performed to awaken Muslims before dawn during the fasting season of Ramadan. Fuji music was named after the Japanese stratovolcano -mountain, Mount Fuji by ...
Cuban music. Cultural origins. 1930s, Yoruba people in Colonial Nigeria, British West Africa. Regional scenes. Nigeria. Apala (or akpala) is a music genre originally developed by the Yoruba people of Nigeria, [1] during the country's history as a colony of the British Empire. It is a percussion -based style that originated in the late 1930s.
Nigeria. Alté (locally pronounced as "ahl-teh") [1] is a fusion genre of music that combines elements of afrobeats, dancehall, reggae, hip hop, and alternative R&B. The term was coined in the 2010s by Nigerian music group DRB LasGidi, meaning alternative and "individualistic and non-traditional modes of self-expression" through music and fashion.
Nigerian reggae is a style of raggae-fusion that evolved in the late 1960s, [1] and later became a major part of the music of Nigeria, especially after the rise of singer Majek Fashek. [2] Fashek was part of the long-running band ‘Jah Stix ', along with Ras Kimono and Amos McRoy.