ETHNOMUS 25 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Huey P. Newton, Tunde King, Recording Studio
Document Summary
Introduction to nigerian popular music: highlife, palmwine, and juju. Nigeria has largest economy and population in african continent: economic power house. Muslim in north and christian in south: colonialism. Was home to many ethnic lines: pre-colonization: kingdoms and chiefdoms; yoruba, hausa, and igbo ethnic groups. 1807: great britain outlawed slave trade => freetown in sierra leone: british started stopping ships of other countries that were carrying slaves away from. Nigeria: took them to sierra leone, freetown contained large populations of ethnic groups from around the continent. South has more education than north: beginning of nigeria politically. 1967-1970: civil war: result of majority of country fighting against biaphora, decided to form su. Catchall term that describes styles of popular music that developed in urban centers of. Anglophone west africa during the 1920s (nigeria, ghana, sierra leone) Broad transnational genre category characterized by musical fusion and hybridity rather than concrete musical characteristics. One of the first pop music styles.
