%0 Journal Article
%T A Conceptual Approach to the Study of Song and Music in Benin Society
%A M. Ighile
%J Venets : The Belogradchik Journal for Local History, Cultural Heritage and Folk Studies
%D 2012
%I SCS Consulting Ltd.
%X This study attempts to provide a theoretical framework for the appreciation of music among the Benin, a strategic ethnic group in Nigeria. It investigates how concepts such as folk and popular song, music, noise, speech and sound find their relevant expression and place in the socio-cultural, economic, moral and even psychological setting of the Benin world. Finally, it is discovered that a conceptual approach is crucial, not only to the situation of the Benin oral literary values within a Western ideological context, but also in the facilitation of an objective evaluation of critical aspects of the life of people.
%K Concept
%K Song
%K Music
%K Benin
%U http://www.venets.org/getfile.php?id=121