CHAPTER FIFTY-TWO: NIGERIAN CONTEMPORARY POP MUSIC IN CULTURAL AND CREATIVE ARTS CURRICULUM: IMPLICATIONS, CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS

Ebele V. Ojukwu (PhD), Echezona Adaora Unoma

Abstract


The Cultural and Creative Arts (CCA) curriculum has for several times and reasons concerned itself with the inclusion of Nigerian folk and art music in teaching and learning. While the efforts made by curriculum planners so far have achieved significant results, there is a need to make the learners relate more with the prevalent music of their time. Learning with the genre of music different from what the learners are exposed to daily may hamper cooperation, mutual communication and comprehension between the teachers and learners in the CCA learning process. This paper, therefore, intends to advocate for giving more place to more recent musicians and their music genre in CCA as the learners will relate to them better. This study recommends that musicologists should redirect their efforts towards the study of popular music even in higher institutions where the CCA teachers are churned out from.

 

Keywords: Nigerian contemporary pop music, musicologists, Cultural and Creative Arts curriculum.


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