ORAL TO WRITTEN: AN ELECTRONIC APPROACH TO DOCUMENTATION OF THE NIGERIAN FOLK AND POPULAR MUSIC GENRES. A RESEARCH PROJECT TOPIC ON MUSIC

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<p> </p><p><strong>INTRODUCTION</strong></p><p>Music as a human phenomenon, though ethnic bound, has a universal appeal. This appeal is better understood and appreciated when it is documented in an easily understandable and readily retrievable form. A common belief is that <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.modishproject.com/cultural-issues-business-nigeria/">African folk</a>&nbsp;and popular music genres could only be paraphrased and not possibly put in their real pictures. On the contrary, however, Nketia (1993) opines:</p><p>What Africa needs at this period in her history are not only collectors but researchers who will combine collecting with <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.modishproject.com/marketing-strategy-e-business-entering/">scholarly studies</a>, researchers who can see the implications of what they collect for culture and development, education and creativity or for scholarly investigation into traditional and contemporary problems in their particular field of African studies, Africans in full command of materials they collect (p. 5).</p><p>There is no future where there is no present; hence, the present affects the future. Man has always and will perhaps never relent in searching for facts yet unknown to him, for answers to questions yet unanswered.</p> <br><p></p>