{"title":"Echoes of Ethnicity: Popular Music and the Resurgence of Igbo Nationalism in Democratic Nigeria","authors":"S. Eze","doi":"10.5406/21567417.67.1.04","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"\n This article discusses the ethnicization of Igbo popular music amid renewed secessionist calls for the defunct state of Biafra. It engages with people's interpretation of ethnic sentiments as expressed in the music of two Igbo popular musicians in Nigeria and the significance of this phenomenon. Given the undercurrents of ethnic rifts, which preceded the Nigeria-Biafra war (1967–1970), postwar Nigerian society remains fraught with questions of ethnonationalism. Within the heated polity, Igbo popular musicians routinely engage in nostalgic discourses about Biafra by articulating the catastrophes of the past and mobilizing the populace to confront present challenges. Specifically, the article engages with the dialectics of ethnonationalism in contemporary Igbo popular music via critical analysis of current repertoire. It contends that Igbo popular musicians deploy ethnic memories, symbols, and cultural essentials as potent political, communication, and mobilization strategies to nurture the consciousness of the Igbo nation in Nigeria.","PeriodicalId":51751,"journal":{"name":"ETHNOMUSICOLOGY","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6000,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"ETHNOMUSICOLOGY","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5406/21567417.67.1.04","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"MUSIC","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This article discusses the ethnicization of Igbo popular music amid renewed secessionist calls for the defunct state of Biafra. It engages with people's interpretation of ethnic sentiments as expressed in the music of two Igbo popular musicians in Nigeria and the significance of this phenomenon. Given the undercurrents of ethnic rifts, which preceded the Nigeria-Biafra war (1967–1970), postwar Nigerian society remains fraught with questions of ethnonationalism. Within the heated polity, Igbo popular musicians routinely engage in nostalgic discourses about Biafra by articulating the catastrophes of the past and mobilizing the populace to confront present challenges. Specifically, the article engages with the dialectics of ethnonationalism in contemporary Igbo popular music via critical analysis of current repertoire. It contends that Igbo popular musicians deploy ethnic memories, symbols, and cultural essentials as potent political, communication, and mobilization strategies to nurture the consciousness of the Igbo nation in Nigeria.
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As the official journal of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Ethnomusicology is the premier publication in the field. Its scholarly articles represent current theoretical perspectives and research in ethnomusicology and related fields, while playing a central role in expanding the discipline in the United States and abroad. Aimed at a diverse audience of musicologists, anthropologists, folklorists, cultural studies scholars, musicians, and others, this inclusive journal also features book, recording, film, video, and multimedia reviews. Peer-reviewed by the Society’s international membership, Ethnomusicology has been published three times a year since the 1950s.
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