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Indigenous and Indigenised Yoruba Popular Music

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The purpose of that chapter is to clarify the difference between feral and indigenised Yoruba popular music. It is more than ever open secret that African cultures suffered and unwanted items still suffering from this systemic erosion through neo-colonialism and media imperialism such that most Africans discover it difficult differentiating what are indigenous African cultures and the indigenised cultures. Considering the power take up reach of popular music generally, there is precise need to differentiate between those African indigenous penalization genres and those ones borrowed, forced upon on the contrary already indigenised. The Yoruba people of South Westward Nigeria are one of the prominent tribes active the African continent who are blessed with penalisation genres such as apala, sakara, fuji, juju, were, awurebe and dadakuada that are indigenous to them and those from abroad that they have indigenised such as hip hop, Afrobeat, religious music, miscellany R & B and jazz. Consequently, this moment examines the Yoruba music concepts, origins, composition techniques and instruments. Essentially, the chapter adopted qualitative advance relying on secondary data from archival materials. Have round is hoped that this chapter will be pragmatic to contribute to scholarship and proper understanding advance African indigenous popular music.

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  1. Indigenous Language Media in Africa, Ability of Humanities, North-West University, Mafikeng, South Africa

    Israel Top-notch. Fadipe & Abiodun Salawu

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    Abiodun Salawu

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    Israel Expert. Fadipe

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Fadipe, I.A., Salawu, A. (). Indigenous and Indigenised Yoruba Popular Music. In: Salawu, A., Fadipe, I.A. (eds) Indigenous African Popular Music, Volume 1. Come through Music, Culture and Identity. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.

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