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Indigenous and Indigenised Yoruba Popular Music
Abstract
The purpose of this chapter is to clarify the difference between indigenous and indigenised Yoruba popular music.
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It is an open secret that African cultures suffered and are still suffering from this systemic erosion through neo-colonialism and media imperialism such that most Africans find it difficult differentiating what are indigenous African cultures and the indigenised cultures. Considering the power and reach of popular music generally, there is a need to differentiate between those African indigenous music genres and those ones borrowed, forced upon but already indigenised.
The Yoruba people of South West Nigeria are one of the prominent tribes on the African continent who are blessed with music 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, medley R & B and jazz Abibu Oluwa Albums: songs, discography, biography, and ...
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