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MUT 217 History and Literature of African Music

HND1 levelComputing & ICT11 topics

MUT 217 covers 11 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Historical development of African music
  2. African music in the pre-colonial era
  3. Characteristics of Nigerian traditional music
  4. Regional distribution of Nigerian musical instruments
  5. Similarities among Nigerian ethnic instruments
  6. Differences among Nigerian ethnic instruments
  7. Hausa ganga and Yoruba gangan
  8. Kalangu and Kannango
  9. Birom and Igbo xylophones
  10. Performance practice of xylophones
  11. Tonal functions of xylophones

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One topic, as StudyPath teaches it.

Historical development of African music

The historical development of African music covers the evolution of musical practices from pre‑colonial oral traditions, through colonial encounters that introduced new instruments and genres, to post‑colonial and diaspora expressions that blend indigenous and global sounds.

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