Nigeria

This article is part of the series: Culture of Nigeria The Hausa are one of the largest ethnic groups in Nigeria. ... The Igbos of the Eastern part of Nigeria has a rhythm of Music, whichh consists of drums udu, flute opi and some other locally made musical instruments ... The music of the Yoruba people of Nigeria is best known for an extremely advanced drumming tradition, especially using the dundun hourglass tension drums. ... Apala is a musical genre, originally derived from the Yoruba people of Nigeria. ... Fuji is a style of popular Nigerian music, fuck in the early 1970s by the one and only Fuji Creator, Alhaji Sikiru Ayinde Barrister. ... Jùjú is a style of Nigerian popular music, derived from traditional Yoruba percussion. ... Afrobeat is a combination of Yoruba music, jazz, and funk rhythms, fused with African percussion and vocal styles, popularized in Africa in the mid to late 1960s. ... Afro-juju is a style of Nigerian popular music, a mixture of fuji music and Afrobeat. ... Waka music is a style of Nigerian popular music. ... Yo-pop is a style of Nigerian popular music, popularized in the 1980s by Segun Adewale. ... Hip hop is a cultural movement composed of four parts: breakdancing, graffiti art, rapping and DJing. ... Reggae is a style of Jamaican music that evolved in the 1970s. ... Gospel music is a kind of African American Christian music that has become a major part of Nigerian music, beginning in the 1970s. ... Image File history File links Nigeria_coa. ... Culture of Nigeria - Nigeria has over 250 different languages and cultures. ...

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The music of Nigeria includes many kinds of folk and popular music, some of which are known worldwide. Styles of folk music are related to the multitudes of ethnic groups in the country, each with their own techniques, instruments, and songs. Little is known about the country's music history prior to European contact, although bronze carvings dating back to the 16th and 17th centuries have been found depicting musicians and their instruments.^[1] Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... // Adam Abdulahi Yusufu Adamu Chris Abani Andy Abulu Chinua Achebe (1930– ) Wale Adebanwi Remi Adedeji (1937– ) Abiola Adegboyega Dapo Adeniyi Mobolaji Adenubi Kole Ade-Odutola Kayode Aderinokun Pius Adesanmi Akin Adesokan Sean Adetula Toyin Abiodun Toyin Adewale-Gabriel Sola Adeyemi (1965– ) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (1977– ) Emeka Agbayi Tolu Ajayi (1946... → Poets from Nigeria include: Chidi Amaechi John Pepper Clark Tade Ipadeola Ahmed Maiwada Austyn Njoku Onyeka Nwelue Obododimma Oha Ezenwa Ohaeto Francis Ohanyido Paula Iriowen Ohanyido Gabriel Okara Promise Okekwe Diego Odoh Okenyodo Dr. Jerry Agada Niran Okewole Christopher Okigbo Ike Okonta Emmanuel Onwi (1968–2006) Dennis Osadebay Sola Osofisan... Folk music, in the original sense of the term, is music by and for the common people. ... Popular music is music belonging to any of a number of musical styles that are accessible to the general public and are disseminated by one or more of the mass media. ... Assorted ancient Bronze castings found as part of a cache, probably intended for recycling. ...

Nigeria has been called "the heart of African music" because of its role in the development of West African highlife and palm-wine music, which fuses native rhythms with techniques imported from the Congo for the development of several popular styles that were unique to Nigeria, like apala, fuji, jùjú, and Yo-pop. Subsequently, Nigerian musicians created their own styles of United States hip-hop and Jamaican reggae. Nigeria's musical output has achieved international acclaim not only in the fields of folk and popular music,^[2], but also Western art music written by composers such as Fela Sowande. Hand drumming has a significant role in African music African music is as vast and varied as the continents many nations and ethnic groups, so a general description of African music is not possible. ... Highlife is a musical genre that originated in Ghana and Sierra Leone in the 1920s and spread to other West African countries. ... Palm-wine music (known as maringa in Sierra Leone) is a West African musical genre. ... Apala is a musical genre, originally derived from the Yoruba people of Nigeria. ... Fuji is a style of popular Nigerian music, fuck in the early 1970s by the one and only Fuji Creator, Alhaji Sikiru Ayinde Barrister. ... Jùjú is a style of Nigerian popular music, derived from traditional Yoruba percussion. ... Yo-pop is a style of Nigerian popular music, popularized in the 1980s by Segun Adewale. ... Hip hop music is a style of music which came into existence in the United States during the mid-1970s, and became a large part of modern pop culture during the 1980s. ... This article does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Classical music is a broad, somewhat imprecise term, referring to music produced in, or rooted in the traditions of, European art, ecclesiastical and concert music, encompassing a broad period from roughly 1000 to the present day. ... Fela Sowande (1905 - 1987) was a Nigerian musician and composer. ...

Polyrhythms, in which two or more separate beats are played simultaneously, are a part of much of traditional African music;^[3] Nigeria is no exception. The African hemiola style, based on the asymmetric rhythm pattern^[4] is an important rhythmic technique throughout the continent. Nigerian music also uses ostinato rhythms, in which a rhythmic pattern is repeated despite changes in metre. Polyrhythm is the simultaneous sounding of two or more independent rhythms. ... African hemiola style is a music rhythm common in Africa. ... In music, an ostinato (derived from Italian: stubborn, compare English: obstinate) is a motif or phrase which is repeated over and over again at the same pitch [1]. Both ostinatos and ostinati are accepted English plural forms, albeit by different groups. ... Metre or meter (US) is the measurement of a musical line into measures of stressed and unstressed beats, indicated in Western music notation by a symbol called a time signature. ...

Nigeria has some of the most advanced recording studio technology in Africa, and provides robust commercial opportunities for music performers. Ronnie Graham, an historian who specialises in West Africa, has attributed the success of the Nigerian music industry to the country's culture—its "thirst for aesthetic and material success and a voracious appetite for life, love and music, [and] a huge domestic market, big enough to sustain artists who sing in regional languages and experiment with indigenous styles". However, political corruption and rampant music piracy in Nigeria has hampered the industry's growth.^[5] A recording studio is a facility for sound recording. ...

Folk music

More than 250 ethnic groups are native to Nigeria, and many more have immigrated there in recent years; the largest ethnic groups are the Igbo, Hausa and Yoruba tribes. Traditional music from Nigeria and throughout Africa is almost always functional; in other words, it is performed to mark a ritual such as a wedding or funeral and not for pure entertainment or artistic enjoyment.^[6] Although some Nigerians, especially children and the elderly, play instruments for their own amusement, solo performance is otherwise rare. Music is closely linked to agriculture, and there are restrictions on, for example, which instruments can be played during different parts of the growing season. The Igbo, sometimes (especially formerly) referred to as Ibo, are one of the largest single ethnicities in Africa. ... The Hausa are a Sahelian people chiefly located in the West African regions of northern Nigeria and southeastern Niger. ... The Yoruba (Yorùbá in Yoruba orthography) are a large ethno-linguistic group or ethnic nation in Africa; the majority of them speak the Yoruba language (ede Yorùbá). The Yoruba constitute approximately 21 percent of Nigerias total population,[1] and around 30 million individuals throughout the region of... Nubian wedding with some international modern touches, near Aswan, Egypt Preparing for the photographs, at a wedding in Thornbury Castle, England A traditional Japanese wedding ceremony A wedding is a ceremony which celebrates the beginning of a marriage. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

Work songs are a common type of traditional Nigerian music. They help to keep the rhythm of workers in fields, river canoes and other fields. Women use complex rhythms in housekeeping tasks, such as pounding yams to highly ornamented music. In the northern regions, farmers work together on each other's farms and the host is expected to supply musicians for his neighbours. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Yams at Brixton market For the term yam as used in the United States, see sweet potato. ...

Musicians in Nigeria are typically not professionals, though there are some exceptions; the northern Muslims in eastern Adamawa, for example, do have groups of specialised musicians. The issue of musical composition is also highly variable. The Hwana, for example, believe that all songs are taught by the peoples' ancestors, while the Tiv give credit to named composers for almost all songs, and the Efik name individual composers only for secular songs. In many parts of Nigeria, musicians are allowed to say things in their lyrics that would otherwise be perceived as offensive. A Muslim (Arabic: مسلم, Turkish: Müslüman, Persian and Urdu: مسلمان, Bosnian: Musliman) is an adherent of Islam. ... Adamawa may refer to several geographical or political areas: The Adamawa Emirate, founded by Modibo Adama; The Adamawa Plateau, which rises in Nigeria, cuts across Central African Republic; The Adamawa Province of Cameroon; The Adamawa State of Nigeria This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other... Hwana is a language of Nigeria. ... The Tiv language is spoken by around 2 million people in Nigeria, with a few speakers in Cameroon. ... This page meets Wikipedias criteria for speedy deletion. ...

The most common format for music in Nigeria is the call-and-response choir, in which a lead singer and a chorus interchange verses, sometimes accompanied by instruments that either shadow the lead text or repeat and ostinato vocal phrase. The southern area features complex rhythms and solo players using melody instruments, while the north more typically features polyphonic wind ensembles. The extreme north region is associated with monodic (i.e., single-line) music with an emphasis on drums, and tends to be more influenced by Islamic music. In music, a call and response is a succession of two distinct phrases usually played by different musicians, where the second phrase is heard as a direct commentary on or response to the first. ... In music, an ostinato (derived from Italian: stubborn, compare English: obstinate) is a motif or phrase which is repeated over and over again at the same pitch [1]. Both ostinatos and ostinati are accepted English plural forms, albeit by different groups. ... Caccini, Le Nuove musiche, 1601, title page In poetry, monody is a poem in which one person laments anothers death. ...

Epic poetry is found in parts of Nigeria, and its performance is always viewed as musical in nature. Blind itinerant performers, sometimes accompanying themselves with a string instrument, are known for reciting long poems of unorthodox Islamic text among the Kanuri and Hausa. These, and other related traditions, may be descended from similar Maghrebian and European traditions. The Ozidi Saga found in the Niger Delta is a well-known epic that takes seven days to perform and utilises; a narrator, a chorus, percussion, mime and dance. The epic is a broadly defined genre of poetry, and one of the major forms of narrative literature. ... The Kanuri are an African ethnic group living in northeastern Nigeria in the state of Bornu. ... The Algerian bay (view from the west). ... The Ozidi Saga was collected and translated from the Ijo of Okabou Ojobolo. ... This article is about Mime as an art form. ...

The Hausa

Main article: Hausa music The Hausa are one of the largest ethnic groups in Nigeria. ...

The Hausa of the north are known for complex percussive music, the one-stringed goje fiddle, and a strong praise song vocal tradition. Under Muslim influence since the 14th century, Hausa music uses free-rhythmic improvisation and the Arabic scale, melding them with West African elements such as polyrhythms and call-and-response vocalisation.^[7] Music is used to celebrate births, marriages, circumcisions, and other important life events. Hausa ceremonial music (rokon fada) is well known in the area, and is dominated by families of praise singers, including, most famously, Narambad.^[8] The Hausa play percussion instruments such as the tambura drum and the royal, elongated kakaki trumpet^[9] which was "originally used by the Songhai cavalry and was taken by the rising Hausa states as a symbol of military power"^[10] Kakaki trumpets can be more than two metres long, and can be easily broken down into three portable parts for easy transportation.^[11] A percussion instrument can be any object which produces a sound by being struck with an implement, shaken, rubbed, scraped, or by any other action which sets the object into vibration. ... A goje is a one- or two-string fiddle from northern Ghana. ... The term fiddle refers to a violin when used in folk music. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Pandura. ... Kakaki are long (up to 3-4 meters) metal trumpets used in traditional African ceremonial music. ... For the empire, see Songhai Empire. ...

Rural Hausa music includes dances such as asauwara (for young females) and the spirit possession dance bòòríí. Hausa folk music has produced popular entertainers, including Dan Maraya (known for his one-stringed lute, the kontigi), Audo Yaron Goje, Muhamman Shata and Ibrahim Na Habu (known for his kukkuma fiddling).^[12] Spiritual possession is a concept of many religions and tales, where it is believed that a demon may take temporary control of a human body, resulting in noticeable changes in behaviour. ... Bòòríí is a spirit possession cult practiced among the Hausa people in the Maradi area of Niger. ... Dan Maraya Jos (born Adamu Wayya in 1946) is a Nigerian Hausa musician best known for playing the kontigi. ... A medieval era lute. ... A kontigi or kuntigi is a one- or two-stringed stringed lute used in Nigerian Hausa music. ... Alhaji Muhamman Shata is a Sudanese Hausa musician. ... A kukkuma is a small fiddle used in Hausa music. ...

The Hausa bòòríí cult is especially well known outside the country, and has been brought as far north as Tripoli, Libya by trans-Saharan trade. The bòòríí cult features a kind of hypnotic, trance-inducing music, played on the calabash, lute or fiddle. During ceremonies, women and other marginalised groups fall into trances and perform various dramatic behaviours, such as mimicking a pig or engaging in human sex. These people are said to be possessed by a character, each with its own litany (kírààrì). Similar trance cults (the so-called "mermaid cults"), can be found in the Niger Delta region. Bòòríí is a spirit possession cult practiced among the Hausa people in the Maradi area of Niger. ... Tripoli (Arabic: طرابلس Tarābulus) is the capital city of Libya. ... The Great Mosque of Djenné, founded in 800, an important trading base, now a World Heritage Site Trans-Saharan trade, between Mediterranean countries and West Africa, was an important trade route from the eighth century until the late sixteenth century. ... The shekere is a unique percussion instrument from Africa. ... This poster of a Samoan snake charmer inspired the common image of Mami Wata in Africa. ... The Niger Delta, the delta of the Niger River in Nigeria, is a densely populated region sometimes called the Oil Rivers because it was once a major producer of palm oil. ...

The Igbo

Main article: Igbo Music Timeline and Samples Genres Hip hop - Reggae - Gospel The music of Nigeria includes many kinds of folk and popular music, some of which are known worldwide. ...

The Igbo people live in the south-east of Nigeria, and play a wide variety of folk instruments. They are known for their ready adoption of foreign styles, and were an important part of Nigerian highlife.^[13] The most widespread instrument is the 13-stringed zither, called an obo. The Igbo also play slit drums, xylophones, flutes, lyres, udus and lutes, and more recently, imported European brass instruments. The Igbo, sometimes (especially formerly) referred to as Ibo, are one of the largest single ethnicities in Africa. ... Concert zither The zither is a musical string instrument, mainly used in folk music, most commonly in German-speaking Alpine Europe. ... Obo is the capital of Haut-Mbomou, one of the 14 prefectures of the Central African Republic. ... Slit Drums are percussion instruments that have parallel slits in one side and one slit across the middle, not always at the center point. ... The xylophone (from the Greek meaning wooden sound) is a musical instrument in the percussion family which probably originated in Indonesia (Nettl 1956, p. ... The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... A typical udu The udu is an African vessel drum originated by the Igbo people of Nigeria. ... Image of a trumpet. ...

Courtly music is played among the more traditional Igbo, maintain their royal traditions. The ufie (slit drum) is used to wake the chief and communicate meal times and other important information to him. Bell and drum ensembles are used to announce when the chief departs and returns to his village.^[14] Slit Drums are percussion instruments that have parallel slits in one side and one slit across the middle, not always at the center point. ...

The Yoruba

Main article: Yoruba music The music of the Yoruba people of Nigeria is best known for an extremely advanced drumming tradition, especially using the dundun hourglass tension drums. ...

The Yoruba have an advanced drumming tradition, with a characteristic use of the dundun hourglass tension drums. Ensembles using the dundun play a type of music that is also called dundun.^[15] These ensembles consist of various sizes of tension drums, along with kettledrums (gudugudu). The leader of a dundun ensemble is the iyalu, who uses the drum to "talk" by imitating the tonality of Yoruba^[16] Much of Yoruba music is spiritual in nature, and is devoted to the Orisha of Yoruba mythology. The Yoruba (Yorùbá in Yoruba orthography) are a large ethno-linguistic group or ethnic nation in Africa; the majority of them speak the Yoruba language (ede Yorùbá). The Yoruba constitute approximately 21 percent of Nigerias total population,[1] and around 30 million individuals throughout the region of... For other kinds of drums, see drum (disambiguation). ... The Djun-Djun or Djum-Djum (pronounced dununs or dundun) is a cylindrical, double-headed bass drum carved from solid Dembu log and using with cow skin membranes. ... Yoruba (native name ede Yorùbá, the Yoruba language) is a dialect continuum of West Africa with over 22 million speakers. ... An Orisha, also spelled Orisa and Orixa, is a spirit that reflects one of the manifestations of Olodumare (God) in the Yoruba spiritual or religious system. ... The mythology of the Yorùbá is sometimes claimed by its supporters to be one of the worlds oldest widely practised religions. ...

Yoruba music has become the most important component of modern Nigerian popular music, as a result of its early influence from European, Islamic and Brazilian forms. These influences stemmed from the importation of brass instruments, sheet music, Islamic percussion and styles brought by Brazilian merchants.^[17] In both the Nigeria's most populous city, Lagos, and the largest city of Ibadan, these multicultural traditions were brought together and became the root of Nigerian popular music. Modern styles such as Alhaji Sikiru Ayinde Barrister's fuji, Salawa Abeni's waka and Yusuf Olatunji's sakara are derived primarily from Yoruban traditional music. Image of a trumpet. ... Sheet music is written representation of music. ... This article is about the city in Nigeria. ... Ibadan (Èbá-Ọdàn), reputed to be the largest indigenous city in Africa south of the Sahara, is the capital of Ọyọ State. ... Alhaji Sikiru Ayinde Barrister a. ... Fuji is: Mount Fuji, a mountain in Japan Fuji River, a river in Japan Fuji Speedway, a major race track at the base of Mt Fuji Mt. ... Salawa Abeni (born May 5, 1961) is a popular Nigerian musician. ... Waka music is a style of Nigerian popular music. ... Yusuf Olatunji (also known as Baba Legba or Baba L’Egbaa) was a Nigerian sakara musician. ... 1) The Sakara is a traditional percussion instrument from Nigeria. ...

Theatrical music

Nigerian theatre makes extensive use of music. Often, this is simply traditional music used in a theatrical production without adaptation. However, there are also distinct styles of music used in Nigerian opera. Here, music is used to convey an impression of the dramatic action to the audience. Music is also used in literary drama, although its musical accompaniment is more sparingly used than in opera; again, music communicates the mood or tone of events to the audience. An example is John Pepper Clark's The Ozidi Saga, a play about murder and revenge, featuring both human and non-human actors. Each character in the play is associated with a personal theme song, which accompanies battles in which the character is involved. Serge Sudeikins poster for the Bat Theatre (1922). ... The Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Italy. ... John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo born 6 April 1935 is a Nigerian poet and playwright who originally published under the name of J.P. Clark. ... The Ozidi Saga was collected and translated from the Ijo of Okabou Ojobolo. ...

Traditional Nigerian theatre includes puppet shows in Borno State and among the Ogoni and Tiv, and the ancient Yoruba Aláàrìnjó tradition, which may be descended from the Egúngún masquerade. With the influx of road-building colonial powers, these theatre groups spread across the country and their productions grew ever more elaborate. They now typically use European instruments, film extracts and recorded music. A puppeteer is a person who manipulates a puppet or marionette, either by the use of strings, wires or their hands, for a stage production or film. ... Borno State is a state in north-eastern Nigeria. ... Aláàrìnjó is a traditional dance-theatre troupe among the Yoruba. ... Egungun is a part of the Yoruba Pantheon of divinities. ...

In the past, both Hubert Ogunde and Ade Love, of blessed memories, produced soundtracks of their movies using very rich Yoruba language. Modern day Yoruba film and theater music composers among whom Tope Alabi is the flagbearer have variously accompanied dramatic actions with original music. Chief Hubert Ogunde (1916 - 1990) is a Nigerian playwright, actor, theatre manager, and musician who founded the Ogunde Concert Party in (1945), the first professional theatrical company in Nigeria. ... Yoruba (native name ede Yorùbá, the Yoruba language) is a dialect continuum of West Africa with over 22 million speakers. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

Children's music

Children in Nigeria have many of their own traditions, usually singing games. These are most often call-and-response type songs, using archaic language. There are other songs, such as among the Tarok people that are sexually explicit and obscene, and are only performed far away from the home. Children also use instruments like un-pitched raft zithers (made from cornstalks) and drums made from tin cans, a pipe made from a pawpaw stem and a Jew's harp made from a sorghum stalk. Among the Hausa, children play a unique instrument in which they beat rhythms on the inflated stomach of a live, irritated pufferfish. Tug of war is an easily organized, impromptu game that requires little equipment. ... This is about the system of images on cards and the associated divination procedures; see Tarot (game) for the traditional French card game. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... For other kinds of drums, see drum (disambiguation). ... Species See text Pawpaw (Asimina) is a genus of eight or nine species of small trees with large leaves and fruit, native to southeastern North America. ... Jews harp, from an American Civil War camp near Winchester, Virginia A modern jews harp The Jews harp, jaw harp, or mouth harp is thought to be one of the oldest musical instruments in the world; a musician apparently playing it can be seen in a Chinese... Species About 30 species, see text Sorghum is a genus of about 30 species of grasses raised for grain, native to tropical and subtropical regions of Eastern Africa, with one species native to Mexico. ... Genera Amblyrhynchotes Arothron Auriglobus Canthigaster Carinotetraodon Chelonodon Colomesus Contusus Ephippion Feroxodon Fugu Gastrophysus Javichthys Lagocephalus Liosaccus Marilyna Monotretus Omegaphora Pelagocephalus Polyspina Reicheltia Sphoeroides Takifugu Tetractenos Tetraodon Torquigener Tylerius Xenopterus For species see Genera articles. ...

Traditional instruments

Although percussion instruments are omnipresent, Nigeria's traditional music uses a number of diverse instruments. Many, such as the xylophone, are an integral part of music across West Africa, while others are imports from the Muslims of the Maghreb, or from Southern or East Africa; other instruments have arrived from Europe or the Americas. Brass instruments and woodwinds were early imports that played a vital role in the development of Nigerian music, while the later importation of electric guitars spurred the popularisation of jùjú music. The xylophone (from the Greek meaning wooden sound) is a musical instrument in the percussion family which probably originated in Indonesia (Nettl 1956, p. ...  Western Africa (UN subregion)  Maghreb[1] West Africa or Western Africa is the westernmost region of the African continent. ... The Algerian bay (view from the west). ... Categories: Africa geography stubs | Southern Africa ...  Eastern Africa (UN subregion)  East African Community  Central African Federation (defunct)  geographic, including above East Africa or Eastern Africa is the easternmost region of the African continent, variably defined by geography or geopolitics. ...

Percussion

The xylophone is a tuned idiophone, common throughout west and central Africa. In Nigeria, they are most common in the southern part of the country, and are of the central African model. Several musicians sometimes simultaneously play a single xylophone. The instruments are usually made of loose wood placed across banana logs. Pit- and box-resonated xylophones are also found. Ensembles of clay pots beaten with a soft pad are common; they are sometimes filled with water. Although normally tuned, untuned examples are sometimes used to produce a bass rhythm. Hollow logs are also used, split lengthways, with resonator holes at the end of the slit. They were traditionally used to communicate over great distances. An idiophone is any musical instrument which creates sound primarily by way of the instrument vibrating itself, without the use of strings or membranes. ...

Various bells are a common part of royal regalia, and were used in secret societies. They are usually made of iron, or in Islamic orchestras of the north, of bronze. Struck gourds, placed on a cloth and struck with sticks, are a part of women's music, as well as the bòòríí cult dances. Sometimes, especially in the north, gourds are placed upside-down in water, with the pitch adjusted by the amount of air underneath it. In the south-west, a number of tuned gourds are played while floating in a trough. A secret society is an organization that conceals its activities from outsiders. ... Bòòríí is a spirit possession cult practiced among the Hausa people in the Maradi area of Niger. ...

Scrapers are common throughout the south. One of the most common types is a notched stick, played by dragging a shell across the stick at various speeds. It is used both as a women's court instrument and by children in teasing games. Among the Yoruba, an iron rod may be used as a replacement for a stick. Rattles are common, made of gourds containing seeds or stones are common, as are net-rattles, in which a string network of beads or shells encloses a gourd. Rattles are typically played in ritual or religious context, predominantly by women.

Drums of many kinds are the most common type of percussion instrument in Nigeria. They are traditionally made from a single piece of wood or spherical calabashes, but have more recently been made from oil drums. The hourglass drum is the most common shape, although there are also double-headed barrel drums, single-headed drums and conical drums. Frame drums are also found in Nigeria, but may be an importation from Brazil. An unusual percussion instrument is the udu, a kind of vessel drum. A typical udu The udu is an African vessel drum originated by the Igbo people of Nigeria. ...

String instruments

The musical bow is found in Nigeria as a mouth-resonated cord, either plucked or struck. It is most common in the central part of the country, and is associated with agricultural songs and those expressing social concerns. Cereal stalks bound together and strings supported by two bridges are used to make a kind of raft-zither, played with the thumbs, typically for solo entertainment. The arched harp is found in the eastern part of the country, especially among the Tarok. It usually has five or six strings and pentatonic tuning. A bowl-resonated spike-fiddle with a lizard skin table is used in the northern region; it is an import from North Africa, and is similar to central Asian and Ethiopian forms. The Hausa and Kanuri peoples play a variety of spike-lutes. For the device drawn across the strings of string instruments such as the violin to make them sound, see bow (music). ...  Northern Africa (UN subregion)  geographic, including above North Africa or Northern Africa is the northernmost region of the African continent, generally divided by the formidable barrier of the Sahara from Sub-Saharan Africa. ...

Other instruments

A variety of brass and woodwind instruments are also found in Nigeria. These include long trumpets, frequently made of aluminium and played in pairs or ensembles of up to six, often accompanied by a shawm. Wooden trumpets, gourd trumpets, end-blown flutes, cruciform whistles, transverse clarinets and various kinds of horns are also found. Image of a trumpet. ... A woodwind instrument is a wind instrument in which sound is produced by blowing through a mouthpiece against an edge or by a vibrating reed, and in which the pitch is varied by opening or closing holes in the body of the instrument. ... The trumpet is the highest brass instrument in register, above the horn, trombone, euphonium and tuba. ... General Name, Symbol, Number aluminium, Al, 13 Chemical series poor metals Group, Period, Block 13, 3, p Appearance silvery Atomic mass 26. ... The shawm was a Renaissance musical instrument of the woodwind family, made in Europe from the late 13th century until the 17th century. ...

Popular music

Many African countries have seen turbulence and violence during their forced transition from a diverse region of folk cultures to a group of modern nation states. Nigeria has experienced more difficulty than most African countries in forging a popular cultural identity from the diverse peoples of the countryside^[18] . From its beginnings in the streets of Lagos, popular music in Nigeria has long been an integral part of the field of African pop, bringing in influences and instruments from many ethnic groups, most prominently including the Yoruba.

The earliest styles of Nigerian popular music were palm-wine music and highlife, which spread in the 1920s among Nigeria and nearby countries of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Ghana. In Nigeria, palm-wine became the primary basis for jùjú, a genre that dominated popular music for many years. During this time, a few other styles such as apala, derived from traditional Yoruban music, also found a more limited audience. By the 1960s, Cuban, American and other styles of imported music were enjoying a large following, and musicians started to incorporate these influences into jùjú. The result was a profusion of new styles in the last few decades of the 20th century, including waka music, Yo-pop and Afrobeat. Palm-wine music (known as maringa in Sierra Leone) is a West African musical genre. ... Highlife is a musical genre that originated in Ghana and Sierra Leone in the 1920s and spread to other West African countries. ... Jùjú is a style of Nigerian popular music, derived from traditional Yoruba percussion. ... Apala is a musical genre, originally derived from the Yoruba people of Nigeria. ... Waka music is a style of Nigerian popular music. ... Yo-pop is a style of Nigerian popular music, popularized in the 1980s by Segun Adewale. ... Afrobeat is a combination of Yoruba music, jazz, and funk rhythms, fused with African percussion and vocal styles, popularized in Africa in the mid to late 1960s. ...

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Palm-wine and the invention of jùjú

Main article: Palm-wine music Palm-wine music (known as maringa in Sierra Leone) is a West African musical genre. ...

By the start of the 20th century, Yoruban music had incorporated brass instruments, written notation, Islamic percussion and new Brazilian techniques, resulting in the Lagos-born palm-wine style. The term palm-wine is also used to describe related genres in Sierra Leone and Ghana.^[19] these varieties are better-known than Nigerian palm-wine. However, palm-wine originally referred to a diverse set of styles played with string instruments, characteristically, guitars or banjos) with shakers and hand drums accompanying^[20] This urban style was frequently played in bars to accompany drinking (hence the name, which is derived from the alcoholic palm wine beverage). This article is about the city in Nigeria. ... Palm-wine music (known as maringa in Sierra Leone) is a West African musical genre. ... A string instrument (or stringed instrument) is a musical instrument that produces sound by means of vibrating strings. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... A four-string banjo For other uses, see Banjo (disambiguation) The banjo is a stringed instrument of African American origin. ... The word Shaker describes a large number of percussive musical instruments used for creating rhythm in music. ... A drum is a musical instrument in the percussion family, technically classified as a membranophone. ... Tapping palm wine in Democratic Republic of Congo Palm wine, also called palm toddy or simply toddy, is an alcoholic beverage created from the sap of various species of palm tree. ...

The first stars of palm-wine had emerged by the 1920s, the most famous of whom was Baba Tunde King. King probably coined the word jùjú — a style of music he helped to create — in reference to the sound of a Brazilian tambourine; alternatively, the term may have developed as an expression of disdain by the colonial leaders (any native tradition was apt to be dismissed as 'mere joujou, French for "nonsense").^[21] By the early 1930s, British record labels such as His Master's Voice had started to record palm-wine, and more celebrities emerged, including Ojoge Daniel, Tunde Nightingale and Speedy Araba. These artists, along with Tunde King, established the core of the style^[22] which was called jùjú, and remained one of the most popular genres in Nigeria throughout the 20th century. Köçek with tambourine c. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Tunde Nightingale, a. ... Jùjú is a style of Nigerian popular music, derived from traditional Yoruba percussion. ...

Apala

Main article: Apala Apala is a musical genre, originally derived from the Yoruba people of Nigeria. ...

Apala is a style of vocal and percussive Muslim Yoruba music. It emerged in the late 1930s as a means of rousing worshippers after the fasting of Ramadan. Under the influence of popular Afro-Cuban percussion, apala developed into a more polished style and attracted a large audience. The music required two or three talking drums (omele), a rattle (sekere), thumb piano (agidigbo) and a bell (agogo). Haruna Ishola was the most famous apala performer, and he later played an integral role in bringing apala to larger audiences as a part of fuji music.^[23] This article is about Islamic religious observances in the month of Ramadan. ... The Caribbean island of Cuba has been influential in the development of multiple musical styles in the 19th and 20th centuries. ... Haruna Ishola (died 1983) was a Nigerian musician best known for songs in the apala genre. ... Fuji is a style of popular Nigerian music, fuck in the early 1970s by the one and only Fuji Creator, Alhaji Sikiru Ayinde Barrister. ...

The 1950s, '60s and '70s

Following World War II, Nigerian music started to take on new instruments and techniques, including electric instruments imported from the United States and Europe. Rock and roll, soul, and later funk, became very popular in Nigeria, and elements of these genres were added to jùjú by artists such as IK Dairo. Meanwhile, highlife had been slowly gaining in popularity among the Igbo people, and their unique style soon found a national audience. At the same time, apala's Haruna Ishola was becoming one of the country's biggest stars. In the early to mid 1970s, three of the biggest names in Nigerian music history were at their peak: Fela Kuti, Ebenezer Obey and King Sunny Ade, while the end of that decade saw the start of Yo-pop and Nigerian reggae. Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ... For other uses, see Soul music (disambiguation). ... Funk is an African American musical style. ... Isaiah Kehinde Dairo MBE (1930—1996) was a notable Nigerian Jùjú musician. ... Apala is a musical genre, originally derived from the Yoruba people of Nigeria. ... Haruna Ishola (died 1983) was a Nigerian musician best known for songs in the apala genre. ... Fela Anikulapo Kuti (b. ... Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey (born in 1942 in Idogo) is a Nigerian popular musician, a contemporary and rival of some of the countrys biggest stars, including King Sunny Ade and Fela Kuti. ... King Sunny Ade King Sunny Adé (Sunday Adeniyi, born 1946) is by far the most popular performer of Nigerian juju music. ... Yo-pop is a style of Nigerian popular music, popularized in the 1980s by Segun Adewale. ... Reggae is a style of Jamaican music that evolved in the 1970s. ...

Although popular styles such as highlife and jùjú were at the top of the Nigerian charts in the '60s, traditional music remained widespread. Traditional stars included the Hausa Dan Maraya, who was so well known that he was brought to the battlefield during the 1967 Nigerian Civil War to lift the morale of the federal troops. Dan Maraya Jos (born Adamu Wayya in 1946) is a Nigerian Hausa musician best known for playing the kontigi. ... Combatants Nigerian federal government Republic of Biafra Commanders Yakubu Gowon Odumegwu Ojukwu Casualties 200,000 soldiers and civilians Estimated 1,000,000 soldiers and civilians The Nigerian Civil War, also known as the Biafran War, July 6, 1967 – January 13, 1970, was a political conflict caused by the attempted secession...

The modernisation of jùjú

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I.K. Dairo

Following World War II, Tunde Nightingale's s'o wa mbe style made him one of the first jùjú stars, and he introduced more Westernised pop influences to the genre. During the 1950s, recording technology grew more advanced, and the gangan talking drum, electric guitar and accordion were incorporated into jùjú. Much of this innovation was the work of IK Dairo & the Morning Star Orchestra (later IK Dairo & the Blue Spots), which formed in 1957.^[24] these performers brought jùjú from the rural poor to the urban cities of Nigeria and beyond.^[25] Dairo became perhaps the biggest star of African music by the '60s, recording numerous hit songs that spread his fame to as far away as Japan. In 1963, he became the only African musician ever honoured by receiving membership of the Order of the British Empire, an order of chivalry in the United Kingdom.^[26] Image File history File links IKDairo. ... Image File history File links IKDairo. ... Tunde Nightingale, a. ... For other kinds of drums, see drum (disambiguation). ... An electric guitar is a type of guitar that uses electronic pickups to convert the vibration of its steel-cored strings into electrical current. ... This article is about the instrument as a whole. ... Isaiah Kehinde Dairo MBE (1930—1996) was a notable Nigerian Jùjú musician. ... Commanders Badge of the Order of the British Empire (Military division) The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. The Order includes five classes in civil and military divisions; in decreasing order of seniority... See also Orders of Chivalry in the British honours system After the failure of the crusades, the crusading military orders became idealized and romanticized, resulting in the late medieval notion of chivalry, as reflected in the Arthurian romances of the time. ...

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The spread of highlife

Main article: Highlife Highlife is a musical genre that originated in Ghana and Sierra Leone in the 1920s and spread to other West African countries. ...

Among the Igbo people, Ghanaian highlife became popular in the early 1950s, and other guitar-band styles from Cameroon and Zaire soon followed. The Ghanaian E. T. Mensah, easily the most popular highlife performer of the 1950s, toured Igbo-land frequently, drawing huge crowds of devoted fans. Bobby Benson & His Combo was the first Nigerian highlife band to find audiences across the country. Benson was followed by Jim Lawson & the Mayor's Dance Band, who achieved national fame in the mid-'70s, ending with Lawson's death in 1976. During the same period, other highlife performers were reaching their peak. These included Rocafil Jazz and Prince Nico Mbarga, whose "Sweet Mother" was a pan-African hit that sold more than 13 million copies, more than any other African single of any kind. Mbarga used English lyrics in a style that he dubbed panko, which incorporated "sophisticated rumba guitar-phrasing into the highlife idiom".^[27] Highlife is a musical genre that originated in Ghana and Sierra Leone in the 1920s and spread to other West African countries. ... Prince Nico Mbarga Prince Nico Mbarga (1 January 1950 Abakakili, Nigeria - 24 June 1997), highlife musician, born to a Nigerian mother and a Cameroonian father, Prince Nico embraced the musical traditions of both cultures. ... Prince Nico Mbarga Prince Nico Mbarga (1 January 1950 Abakakili, Nigeria - 24 June 1997), highlife musician, born to a Nigerian mother and a Cameroonian father, Prince Nico embraced the musical traditions of both cultures. ... Panko is a variety of breadcrumb used in Japanese cuisine as a crunchy, flaky coating for fried foods such as tonkatsu. ... Rumba is both a family of music rhythms and a dance style that originated in Africa and traveled via the slave trade to Cuba and the New World. ...

After the civil war in the 1960s, Igbo musicians were forced out of Lagos and returned to their homeland. The result was that highlife ceased to be a major part of mainstream Nigerian music, and was thought of as being something purely associated with the Igbos of the east. Highlife's popularity slowly dwindled among the Igbos, supplanted by jùjú and fuji. However, a few performers kept the style alive, such as Yoruba singer and trumpeter Victor Olaiya (the only Nigerian to ever earn a platinum record), Stephen Osita Osadebe, Sonny Okosun, Victor Uwaifo, and Orlando "Dr. Ganja" Owoh, whose distinctive toye style fused jùjú and highlife.^[28] Sir Victor Uwaifo (born 1941) was a Nigerian musician, famous for his joromi music. ...

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The birth of fuji

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Apala, a traditional style from Ijebu in Yorubaland, also became very popular in the 1960s, led by performers like Haruna Ishola, Sefiu Ayan, Kasumu Adio, and Ayinla Omowura. Ishola, who was one of Nigeria's most consistent hit makers between 1955 and his death in 1983, recorded apala songs, which alternated between slow and emotional, and swift and energetic. His lyrics were a mixture of improvised praise and passages from the Koran, as well as traditional proverbs. His work became a formative influence on the developing fuji style. Apala is a musical genre, originally derived from the Yoruba people of Nigeria. ... Ijebu was a Yoruba kingdom in pre-colonial Nigeria. ... Haruna Ishola (died 1983) was a Nigerian musician best known for songs in the apala genre. ... The Quran (Arabic al-qurʾān أَلْقُرآن; also transliterated as Quran, Koran, and less commonly Alcoran) is the holy book of Islam. ... For the music piece by Steve Reich see Proverb (Reich) Look up proverb in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

The late 1960s saw the appearance of the first fuji bands. Fuji was named after Mount Fuji in Japan, purely for the sound of the word, according to Alhaji Sikiru Ayinde Barrister.^[29] Fuji was a synthesis of apala with the "ornamented, free-rhythmic" vocals of ajisari devotional musicians^[30] and was accompanied by the sakara, a tambourine-drum, and Hawaiian guitar. Among the genre's earliest stars were Haruna Ishola and Ayinla Omowura; Ishola released numerous hits from the late '50s to the early '80s, becoming one of the country's most famous performers. Fuji grew steadily more popular between the 1960s and '70s, becoming closely associated with Islam in the process. Mount Fuji Mount Fuji , IPA: )   is the highest mountain in Japan. ... Alhaji Sikiru Ayinde Barrister a. ... An ajisari is one who arouses others to pray and feast during Ramadan. ... 1) The Sakara is a traditional percussion instrument from Nigeria. ... Haruna Ishola (died 1983) was a Nigerian musician best known for songs in the apala genre. ... Islam (Arabic:  ) is a monotheistic religion based upon the teachings of Muhammad, a 7th century Arab religious and political figure. ...

Fuji has been described as jùjú without guitars; ironically, Ebenezer Obey once described jùjú as mambo with guitars.^[31]. However, at its roots, fuji is a mixture of Muslim traditional were music'ajisari songs with "aspects of apala percussion and vocal songs and brooding, philosophical sakara music"^[32]; of these elements, apala is the fundamental basis of fuji^[33] The first stars of fuji were the rival bandleaders Alhaji Sikiru Ayinde Barrister and Ayinla Kollington^[34] Alhaji Sikiru Ayinde Barrister started his fuji career in the early 1970s with the Golden Fuji Group," although he had sung Muslim songs since he was 10 years old. He first changed his group's name to "Fuji Londoners" when he came back from a trip to London, England. After a very long time — with hits such as "Orilonise," Fuji Disco/Iku Baba Obey," "Oke Agba," "Aye," and "Suuru" — he later changed the group's name to "Supreme Fuji Commanders" with a bang!, "Orelope" that went platinum instantly. Ayinde's rival was Ayinla Kollington, "Baba Alatika," known for using abusive and vulgar lyrics interlaced with incoherent social commentaries. He was followed in the 1980s by burgeoning stars such as Wasiu Ayinde Barrister. Mambo is a Cuban musical form and dance style. ... A Muslim (Arabic: مسلم, Turkish: Müslüman, Persian and Urdu: مسلمان, Bosnian: Musliman) is an adherent of Islam. ... Were music is an indigenous Yoruba music, which, like ajisari, is a way of using music to arouse the Islamic faithful to pray and feast during Ramadan festival in Yorubaland. ... An ajisari is one who arouses others to pray and feast during Ramadan. ... Apala is a musical genre, originally derived from the Yoruba people of Nigeria. ... Fuji is: Mount Fuji, a mountain in Japan Fuji River, a river in Japan Fuji Speedway, a major race track at the base of Mt Fuji Mt. ... Alhaji Sikiru Ayinde Barrister a. ... Ayinla Kollington, born in 1953 in Ibadan, Nigeria, was an African musician who practiced Fuji music in the 1960s. ... Alhaji Sikiru Ayinde Barrister a. ... Fuji is: Mount Fuji, a mountain in Japan Fuji River, a river in Japan Fuji Speedway, a major race track at the base of Mt Fuji Mt. ... Ayinla Kollington, born in 1953 in Ibadan, Nigeria, was an African musician who practiced Fuji music in the 1960s. ...

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Diversification: Ade and Obey

Ebenezer Obey formed the International Brothers in 1964, and his band soon rivalled that of IK Dairo as the biggest Nigerian group. They played a form of bluesy, guitar-based and highlife-influenced jùjú that included complex talking drum-dominated percussion elements. Obey's lyrics addressed issues that appealed to urban listeners, and incorporated Yoruban traditions and his conservative Christian faith. His rival was King Sunny Ade, who emerged in the same period, forming the Green Spots in 1966 and then achieving some major hits with the African Beats after 1974's Esu Biri Ebo Mi. Ade and Obey raced to incorporate new influences into jùjú music and to gather new fans; Hawaiian slack-key, keyboards and background vocals were among the innovations added during this rapidly changing period.^[35] Ade added strong elements of Jamaican dub music, and introduced the practice of having the guitar play the rhythm and the drums play the melody^[36] During this period, jùjú songs changed from short pop songs to long tracks, often over 20 minutes in length. Bands increased from four performers in the original ensembles, to 10 with IK Dairo and more than 30 with Obey and Ade. Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey (born in 1942 in Idogo) is a Nigerian popular musician, a contemporary and rival of some of the countrys biggest stars, including King Sunny Ade and Fela Kuti. ... The blues is a vocal and instrumental form of music based on the use of the blue notes and a repetitive pattern that typically follows a twelve-bar structure. ... For other kinds of drums, see drum (disambiguation). ... King Sunny Ade King Sunny Adé (Sunday Adeniyi, born 1946) is by far the most popular performer of Nigerian juju music. ... Slack-key guitar is a style of music originating in Hawaii using an acoustic guitar fingerpicking style. ... Piano, a well-known instance of keyboard instruments A keyboard instrument is any musical instrument played using a musical keyboard. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

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The 1980s and '90s

In the early 1980s, both Obey and Ade found larger audiences outside of Nigeria. In 1982, Ade was signed to Island Records, who hoped to replicate Bob Marley's success, and released Juju Music, which sold far beyond expectations in Europe and the United States.^[37] Obey released Current Affairs in 1980 on Virgin Records and became a brief star in the UK, but was not able to sustain his international career as long as Ade. Ade led a brief period of international fame for jùjú, which ended in 1985 when he lost his record contract after the commercial failure of Aura (recorded with Stevie Wonder) and his band walked out in the middle of a huge Japanese tour. Ade's brush with international renown brought a lot of attention from mainstream record companies, and helped to inspire the burgeoning world music industry. By the end of the 1980s, jùjú had lost out to other styles, like Yo-pop, gospel and reggae. In the 1990s, however, fuji and jùjú remained popular, as did waka music and Nigerian reggae. At the very end of the decade, hip hop music spread to the country after being a major part of music in neighboring regions like Senegal. Island Records is an American record label, owned by Universal Music Group and is operated through The Island Def Jam Music Group. ... Robert Nesta Marley OM (February 6, 1945 – May 11, 1981) was a Jamaican singer, songwriter, and guitarist. ... Virgin Records is a British recording label founded by British entrepreneur Richard Branson, and Nik Powell in 1972. ... Stevie Wonder (born Stevland Hardaway Judkins on May 13, 1950, name later changed to Stevland Hardaway Morris),[1] a singular musical talent, is an African American singer, songwriter, record producer, musician, and social activist. ... World music is, most generally, all the music in the world. ... Yo-pop is a style of Nigerian popular music, popularized in the 1980s by Segun Adewale. ... Gospel music is a kind of African American Christian music that has become a major part of Nigerian music, beginning in the 1970s. ... This article does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Waka music is a style of Nigerian popular music. ... Hip hop music is a style of music which came into existence in the United States during the mid-1970s, and became a large part of modern pop culture during the 1980s. ...

1980s: Yo-pop and Afro-jùjú

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Two of the biggest stars of the '80s were Segun Adewale and Shina Peters, who started their careers performing in the mid-'70s with Prince Adekunle. They eventually left Adekunle and formed a brief partnership as Shina Adewale & the International Superstars before beginning solo careers.^[38] Adewale was the first of the two to gain success, when he became the most famous performer of Yo-pop^[39] Sir Shina Peters is a Nigerian Juju musician. ... Yo-pop is a style of Nigerian popular music, popularized in the 1980s by Segun Adewale. ...

The Yo-pop craze did not last for long, replaced by Shina Peters' Afro-juju style, which broke into the mainstream after the release of Afro-Juju Series 1 (1989). Afro-juju was a combination of Afrobeat and fuji, and it ignited such fervor among Shina's fans that the phenomenon was dubbed "Shinamania". Though he was awarded Juju Musician of the Year in 1990, Shina's follow-up, Shinamania sold respectively but was panned by critics.^[40] His success opened up the field to newcomers, however, leading to the success of Fabulous Olu Fajemirokun and Adewale Ayuba. The same period saw the rise of new styles like the funky juju pioneered by Dele Taiwo^[41] Afro-juju is a style of Nigerian popular music, a mixture of fuji music and Afrobeat. ... Adewale Ayuba (Mr. ...

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Afrobeat

Main article: Afrobeat Afrobeat is a combination of Yoruba music, jazz, and funk rhythms, fused with African percussion and vocal styles, popularized in Africa in the mid to late 1960s. ...

Afrobeat is a style most closely associated with Nigeria, though practitioners and fans are found throughout West Africa, and Afrobeat recordings are a prominent part of the world music category found throughout the developed world. It is a fusion of American funk music with elements of highlife, jazz and other styles of West African music. The most popular and well-known performer, indeed the most famous Nigerian musician in history, is undoubtedly Fela Kuti.^[42] World music is, most generally, all the music in the world. ... Funk is an African American musical style. ... Jazz is a style of music which originated in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States at around the start of the 20th century. ... Fela Anikulapo Kuti (b. ...

Fela Kuti began performing in 1961, but did not start playing in his distinctive Afrobeat style until his exposure to Sierra Leonean Afro-soul singer Geraldo Pino in 1963.^[43] Although Kuti is often credited as the only pioneer of Afrobeat, other musicians such as Kuti Orlando Julius Ekemode were also prominent in the early Afrobeat scene, where they combined highlife, jazz and funk.^[44] A brief period in the United States saw him exposed to the Black Power movement and the Black Panthers, an influence that he would come to express in his lyrics. After living in London briefly, he moved back to Lagos and opened a club, The Shrine, which was one of the most popular music spots in the city. He started recording with Africa '70, a huge band featuring drummer Tony Allen, who has since gone on to become a well-known musician in his own right. With Africa 70, Kuti recorded a series of hits, earning the ire of the government as he tackled such diverse issues as poverty, traffic and skin-bleaching. In 1985, Kuti was jailed for five years, but was released after only two years after international outcry and massive domestic protests. Upon release, Kuti continued to criticise the government in his songs, and became known for eccentric behaviour, such as suddenly divorcing all twenty-eight wives because "no man has the right to own a woman's vagina". His death from AIDS in 1997 sparked a period of national mourning that was unprecedented in documented Nigerian history^[45] Afrobeat is a combination of Yoruba music, jazz, and funk rhythms, fused with African percussion and vocal styles, popularized in Africa in the mid to late 1960s. ... Tommie Smith (gold medal) and John Carlos (bronze medal) famously performed the Black Power salute on the 200 m winners podium at the 1968 Olympics. ... This article is about the American political organization. ... Africa 70 was the afrobeat entourage orchestrated by Fela Kuti throughout most of the 1970s. ... Tony Oladipo Allen (born August 12, 1940 in Lagos, Nigeria. ... This article is about the syndrome. ...

In the 1980s, Afrobeat became affiliated with the burgeoning genre of world music. In Europe and North America, so-called "world music" acts came from all over the world and played in a multitude of styles. Fela Kuti and his Afrobeat followers were among the most famous of the musicians considered world music. Image File history File links FelaKutiAfricanWoman. ... Software development stages In computer programming, development stage terminology expresses how the development of a piece of software has progressed and how much further development it may require. ... World music is, most generally, all the music in the world. ...

By the end of the '80s and early '90s, Afrobeat had diversified by taking in new influences from jazz and rock and roll. The ever-masked and enigmatic Lágbájá became one of the standard-bearers of the new wave of Afrobeat, especially after his 1996 LP C'est Une African Thing. Following a surprise appearance in place of his father, Fela, Femi Kuti garnered a large fan base that enabled him to tour across Europe. Jazz is a style of music which originated in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States at around the start of the 20th century. ... Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ... Femi Kuti Femi Kuti is an award winning Nigerian musician, and the oldest son of legendary Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti. ...

Femi Kuti

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Waka

Main article: Waka music Waka music is a style of Nigerian popular music. ...

The popular songstress Salawa Abeni had become nationally renowned after the release of Late General Murtala Ramat Mohammed in 1976, which was the first Nigerian recording by a woman to sell more than a million copies. In the 1980s, she remained one of the nation's best-selling artists, creating her own unique variety of music called waka; she was so closely associated with the genre that a royal figure, the Alaafin of Oyo, Obalamidi Adeyemi, crowned her the "Queen of Waka Music" in 1992. Waka was a fusion of jùjú and fuji with traditional Yoruban music. Salawa Abeni (born May 5, 1961) is a popular Nigerian musician. ...

Reggae and hip hop

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Nigerian reggae was popularised by stars such as Majek Fashek, whose 1988 cover of Bob Marley's "Redemption Song", became an unprecedented success for reggae in Nigeria. Like many later Nigerian reggae stars, Fashek was a part of the long-running band The Matadors, who toured and recorded incessantly during the mid to late 1980s and early '90s. Later prominent reggae musicians included Jerri Jheto, Daddy Showkey, Ras Kimono and the London-based MC Afrikan Simba. Majek Fashek is a Nigerian reggae musician, one of the most popular from that country. ... In popular music, a cover version, or simply cover, is a new rendition (performance or recording) of a previously recorded song. ... Robert Nesta Marley OM (February 6, 1945 – May 11, 1981) was a Jamaican singer, songwriter, and guitarist. ... Album cover of Uprising Redemption Song was the last track on Bob Marleys ninth Island music album, Uprising. ... The Matadors are a psychobilly band based mainly in London, Ontario, Canada. ...

Nigerian gospel music, based on African American musical models, grew in the 1970s when church-based performance groups and individuals moved to public exhibition. Gospel became very popular in Nigeria throughout the last part of the century, especially singers like Sammie Okposo, whose 2000 hit "Welu Welu" was one of the most popular songs in Nigerian history The Sun News Online, and the long-time performer Onyeka Onwenu. Gospel music may refer to the religious music that first came out of African-American churches in the first quarter of the twentieth century or, more loosely, to both black gospel music and to the religious music composed and sung by predominately white Southern Gospel artists. ... African American music (also called black music, formerly known as race music) is an umbrella term given to a range of musical genres emerging from or influenced by the culture of African Americans, who have long constituted a large ethnic minority of the population of the United States. ...

Hip hop music was brought to Nigeria in the late 1980s, and grew steadily popular throughout the first part of the 1990s. The first acts included [Sound on Sound], [Emphasis], [Ruff Rugged & Raw], [SWAT ROOT]Osha, De Weez and Black Masquradaz. Mainstream success grew later in the decade, with attention brought by early hits like The Trybesmen's "Trybal Marks" (1999) and the trio The Remedies' "Judile" and "Sakoma". One of The Remedies, Tony Tetuila, went on to work with the Plantashun Boiz to great commercial acclaim. The 1999 founding of Paybacktyme Records helped redefined and establish a Nigerian hip hop scene. Also, the general rapid growth of the entertainment scene with support from the media helped popularise Hiphop music in Nigera. Television Programmes like the MTN Y'ello show, Music Africa, and Soundcity played a major role especially with Presenters like Deji Falope whose fascination for diamond and platinum chains and earrings seem to more than subtly express the culture. Other prominent Nigerian hip-hop musicians include former member of The Remedies Eedris Abdulkareem (who had a well-publicised spat with the American star 50 Cent), Deshola Idowu, JJC and the 419 Squad, Zdon Paporrella, D'Banj, Shawl-x, P-Square, Thorobreds, Modenine and Terry tha Rapman. Hip hop music is a style of music which came into existence in the United States during the mid-1970s, and became a large part of modern pop culture during the 1980s. ... If you are searching for the organization, click OSHA. Osha (Ligusticum porteri) is a perennial herb used for its medicinal properties. ... Tony Tetuila is a Nigerian musician and one of the leading Afro hip hop artists in the country. ... Eedris Abdulkareem, born Eedris Turayo Abdulkareem Ajenifuja, is a Nigerian hip hop artist. ... For the U.S. currency value, see Half dollar (United States coin). ... Mode 9 is a Nigerian rapper often regarded as one of the best rappers in Africa. ...

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Music at festivals and holidays

Durbar festivals are held in many parts of south-west Nigeria; durbar is meant to honour the Emir during the culmination of the Islamic festivals Eid ul-Fitr, Eid ul-Adha, and Sallah for the well-known Katsina durbar, and is sometimes also used to honour visiting dignitaries IslamOnline. Although the principal attraction of the durbar festivals is displays of traditional horsemanship, performances by drummers, trumpeters and praise-singers are an important part of the celebration Africa Travel. Other holidays in which music plays an important role include drumming and dances performed at Christmas, Easter Sunday and Easter Monday Motherland Nigeria. Durbar is a term in India for a court or levee, from the Persian darbar. ... Entrance to the emirs palace in Bukhara. ... Eid ul-Fitr or Id-Ul-Fitr (Arabic: عيد الفطر ‘Īd al-Fiá¹­r), often abbreviated as simply Eid, is an Islamic holiday that marks the end of Ramadan, the month of fasting. ... Eid ul-Adha (Arabic: عيد الأضحى ‘Īd al-’Aḍḥā) occurs on the tenth day of the Islamic month of Dhul Hijja. ... Sallah is a fictional character in the Indiana Jones trilogy. ... Katsina is an old city of Northern Nigeria 160 miles South East of the city of Sokoto, and 84 m. ... Equestrianism relates to the riding of horses. ... Drumming may refer to: the act of playing the drums or other percussion instruments Drumming, a musical composition written by Steve Reich in 1971 for percussion ensemble This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. ... Christmas is an annual holiday that marks the birth of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. ... Easter (also called Pascha) is generally accounted the most important holiday of the Christian year, observed March or April each year to celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus from the dead (after his death by crucifixion; see Good Friday), which Christians believe happened at about this time of year, almost two... Easter Monday is the day after Easter Sunday and is celebrated as a holiday in some largely Christian cultures. ...

Classical music

In the 20th century, Nigeria produced a number of classical composers; these include Fela Sowande, Joshua Uzoigwe, Akin Euba, and Godwin Sadoh. Sowande was a one of the first and most famous African composers in the Western classical tradition, and founder of the Nigerian art music tradition. Sowande was also an organist and jazz musician, a banana incorporating these and elements of Nigerian folk music into his work Africlassical.com. Fela Sowande (1905 - 1987) was a Nigerian musician and composer. ... Joshua Uzoigwe (b. ... Akin Euba (born 28 April 1935 at Lagos, Nigeria) is a Nigerian composer. ... This article or section should be merged with Pipe organ The Casavant pipe organ at Notre-Dame de Montréal Basilica, Montreal The organ is a type of keyboard musical instrument, distinctive because the sound is not produced by a percussion action, as on a piano or celesta, or by... Jazz is a style of music which originated in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States at around the start of the 20th century. ...

References

• Nigeria: Festivals and Cultural Tours. Africa Travel Magazine. Retrieved on August 25, 2005.
• The Orchestra in the African Context. African Chorus. Retrieved on June 21, 2005.
• Fela Sowande: Nigerian Composer, Organist & Professor. Africlassical.com. Retrieved on August 23, 2005.
• Afropop Nigeria. Afropop. Retrieved on June 21, 2005.
• Afropop Juju. Afropop. Retrieved on June 21, 2005.
• Afropop Fuji. Afropop. Retrieved on June 21, 2005.
• Afropop Apala. Afropop. Retrieved on June 21, 2005.
• Islam. Arab World Information. Retrieved on August 25, 2005., specifically the sections "Fuji Music of Nigeria" and "Traditional Hausa Music of Nigeria"
• Graham, Ronnie. "From Hausa Music to Highlife". 2000. In Broughton, Simon and Ellingham, Mark with McConnachie, James and Duane, Orla (Ed.), The Rough Guide to World Music, Rough Guides Ltd, Penguin Books. ISBN 1858286360
• A Glimpse at Nigeria. IslamOnline. Retrieved on August 25, 2005.
• Karolyi, Otto (1998). Traditional African & Oriental Music. Penguin Books. ISBN 0140231072. 
• Holidays. Motherland Nigeria. Retrieved on August 25, 2005.
• Omojola, Bode (1995). Nigerian Art Music. University of Ibadan. ISBN 978-2015-38-5. 
• A Brief History of African Popular Music. Piero Scaruffi's The History of Rock Music. Retrieved on August 23, 2005.
• ADDICTED! Sammie Okposo says he’ll sing gospel until he can sing no more. The Sun News Online. Retrieved on August 30, 2005.
• Titon, Jeff Todd (ed.) (1992). Worlds of Music: An Introduction to the Music of the World's Peoples. Schirmer Books. ISBN 0-02-872602-2. 

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Notes

Alhaji Sikiru Ayinde Barrister a. ... Were music is an indigenous Yoruba music, which, like ajisari, is a way of using music to arouse the Islamic faithful to pray and feast during Ramadan festival in Yorubaland. ... A Muslim is a believer in or follower of Islam. ... This article is about Islamic religious observances in the month of Ramadan. ... 1) The Sakara is a traditional percussion instrument from Nigeria. ... Fuji is: Mount Fuji, a mountain in Japan Fuji River, a river in Japan Fuji Speedway, a major race track at the base of Mt Fuji Mt. ...

Further reading

• Akpabot, Samuel Ekpe (1975). Ibibio Music in Nigerian Culture. Michigan State University Press. 
• Arom, Simka (1991). African Polyphony and Polyrhythm: Musical Structure and Methodology. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-61601-8. 
• Graham, Ronnie (1989). Stern's Guide to Contemporary African Music. Pluto Press. ISBN 1-85305-000-8. 
• Veal, Michael E (1997). Fela. The Life of an African Musical Icon. Temple University Press. 
• Waterman, Christopher Alan (1990). Juju: A Social History and Ethnography of an African Popular Music. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-87465-6. 

External links

• Nigerian Music lyrics + audio, video, etc
• Nigerian Music Directory
• Sound samples
• Nigerian Entertainment magazine
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• Watch & Listen To Nigerian Music