Modern Trends in the Islamized Music of the Traditional Yorùbá Concept, Origin, and Development

Since the advent of Islam in Yorubaland in the seventeenth century, it has become an important phenomenon in the historical development of the Yorùbá race. This is also evident in the areas of musical cultures of the people. The conception of music differs from culture to culture. It therefore takes an open mind to recognize this and accept certain human behaviours as musical. The concept of music in Islamic worldview is guided by the ethics of Islamic religion. However, the concept of music of Yorùbá people has traditional backings, which differs from that of the 'missionaries' who brought Islam to the land. This concept is responsible for the hybridization of both Islamic and Yorùbá musical cultures. Both the primary and secondary sources of information collected and codified for this essay established that the contact and the harmony between Islamic and Yorùbá musical cultures produced new musical experience: i.e. islamized Yorùbá music, which is a vehicle not only for popularizing Yorùbá music but also for promoting it

Aesthetics · Art · Islam · Linguistics · Literature · Musical · Sociology · Visual arts · Yoruba · African history and culture analysis · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Hispanic-African Historical Relations · History · Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis · Philosophy

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