Documenting and Archiving the Nigerian Musical Arts: Notes on Methods, Processes and Practices

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dc.contributor.authorAyorinde, O.
dc.contributor.authorTalabi, G.O.
dc.contributor.authorOkunade, A.
dc.date.accessioned2021-08-13T11:47:20Z
dc.date.available2021-08-13T11:47:20Z
dc.date.issued2020-11
dc.descriptionScholarly Articleen_US
dc.description.abstractAbstract This paper explores musical documentation and archiving as central to an effective music scholarship and arts development in Nigeria. The available research on various aspects of Nigerian music, the overwhelming presence of creative outputs (like musical composition) and the emerging musical forms have not only valorised archiving as a key component of knowledge production, but also calls for critical engagements with these available works—for new knowledge and arts development. While there are efforts at institutional levels to archive the available musical works and research, the lack of ‘specialist knowledge’, infrastructure and theoretical models have frustrated rather than encouraged such efforts. Drawing perspectives from contemporary archival practices, experiences and theories, in this paper, we explore possible musical documentation and archiving frameworks and methods that could facilitate the transformation of musical arts research, artistic and creative practices for social, cultural and economic development in Nigeria. In so doing, we explain the political economy of the musical archive and its place in the nation’s developmental process, as well as its implications for individual institutions. Advancing from this, we engage more practical steps and methods that constitute a functioning archive and documentation practice. In sum, we argue that the transformation of music research, education frameworks, artistic and creative practices in Nigeria depends on a higher education agenda that takes seriously the role of music documentation and archiving in knowledge production.en_US
dc.identifier.citationAyorinde, O., Talabi, G.O., and Okunade, A. (2020). Documenting and Archiving the Nigerian Musical Arts: Notes on Methods, Processes and Practices. Journal of the Association of Nigerian Musicologists, 14:78-91.en_US
dc.identifier.issn1597-0590
dc.identifier.urihttps://ir.unilag.edu.ng/handle/123456789/9532
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherAssociation of Nigerian Musicologistsen_US
dc.subjectDocumentationen_US
dc.subjectArchivingen_US
dc.subjectNigerian musicen_US
dc.subjectKnowledge productionen_US
dc.subjectResearch Subject Categories::HUMANITIES and RELIGION::Aesthetic subjects::Musicen_US
dc.titleDocumenting and Archiving the Nigerian Musical Arts: Notes on Methods, Processes and Practicesen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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