Generally, in Africa, musical instruments perform various functions, both musical and non-musical. In Nigerian gospel music these functions are not only found but also have expanded. In this paper, various musical instruments used in Nigerian gospel music are described and categorized before discussing their musical, socio-linguistic symbolic, aesthetic, and stylistic functions. Since Nigerian gospel music has been categorized into distinct styles (Adedeji, 2004a), instrumentation could be argued to be one of the determinants, as shown in this paper.Généralement en Afrique, les instruments de musique jouent plusieurs fonctions. Ces fonctions sont soit d'ordre musical ou d'ordre non-musical. Dans la musique chrétienne du Nigeria, non seuleme...
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Gospel music in Nigeria, a distinct christian musical genre on one hand and a part of popular cultur...
Este artigo trata da classificação dos estilos musicais de música gospel concebida e praticada na Ni...
Religious music in Africa, especially gospel music, has become a major aspect of urban popular cultu...
Music is an indispensable tool of cultural transmission. Considering the vast nature of oral traditi...
Nigerian gospel music, one of the most popular musical genres in contemporary Nigeria started about ...
Nigerian musical practice can be divided into three categories for analysis: indigenous or tribal fo...
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The introduction of European culture and Christianity to Nigeria in the second half of the nineteent...
The use of indigenous musical instruments has played a significant role in the life and worship expe...
This study analyses the performance techniques, instrumentation and songs of selected indigenized so...
This article explores the understudied thematic of Nigerian Pentecostal musicianship, by focusing on...
Folk music in Nigeria evolved as a corporate communal experience. It has been sustained as such, and...
For many ethnic groups in Africa, music is a part of everyday life. Celebrations begin with an exult...
Like melody, language and rhythm, pitch and tonality are major indicators of African identity in mus...
Gospel music in Nigeria, a distinct christian musical genre on one hand and a part of popular cultur...
Este artigo trata da classificação dos estilos musicais de música gospel concebida e praticada na Ni...
Religious music in Africa, especially gospel music, has become a major aspect of urban popular cultu...
Music is an indispensable tool of cultural transmission. Considering the vast nature of oral traditi...
Nigerian gospel music, one of the most popular musical genres in contemporary Nigeria started about ...
Nigerian musical practice can be divided into three categories for analysis: indigenous or tribal fo...
This study discusses selected problems of music and music education in Nigeria. It also gives sugges...
It has been estimated that some twenty million Africans have become Christians; more than the total ...
The introduction of European culture and Christianity to Nigeria in the second half of the nineteent...
The use of indigenous musical instruments has played a significant role in the life and worship expe...
This study analyses the performance techniques, instrumentation and songs of selected indigenized so...
This article explores the understudied thematic of Nigerian Pentecostal musicianship, by focusing on...
Folk music in Nigeria evolved as a corporate communal experience. It has been sustained as such, and...
For many ethnic groups in Africa, music is a part of everyday life. Celebrations begin with an exult...