MUSIC AND LANGUAGES: AN X-RAY OF THE NIGERIAN ETHNIC BIAS

Sunday N. Nnamani

Abstract


The paper examines the role of music and language as a necessity for human existence in all
societies, especially in Nigeria. It saw language as possibly the most important and powerful
of mankind's unique endowments, the means through which we regulate our social and
interpersonal behaviour and build up to stabilize our intellectual engagement with the
world. This simply means that language is an important factor in the formation of concepts
and a sin-qua-non for effective communication. It examined Nigerian Music which includes
many kinds of folk and popular types of the various ethnic groups and their techniques. The
ethnic groups include Igbo, Hausa, and Yoruba.


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