¹AKINTARO Olaoluwa Akintunde, ²AKINDUTIRE Dennis Adebayo, ³ADEJUMO Ezekiel Adewale

^1,3Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Nigeria. Department of English and Literary Studies
²University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Department of English

DOI : https://doi.org/10.47191/ijsshr/v7-i09-06

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ABSTRACT

Music is an interesting aspect of oral literature that has witnessed different critical studies. Extant researches have explored music from the religious, ritual context, or as an aspect of ritual performance. Other studies have explored music from ideological perspective. This study is therefore justified as it attempts to examine music from the context of entertainment, oral literature and politics. This is done with the aim of exploring the political ideology behind the song and the functions and significance of the features of oral literature in the songs and its effectiveness in passing the messages to the audience. This research adopts Bronislaw Malinoslaw and Radcliffe Brown’s Functionalism as its theoretical framework. Functionalism opines that every aspect of the social life should contribute to the promotion of the society’s cultural values that must be passed from one generation to another, however, any aspect of the social life that does not promote the society’s cultural believe must be discontinued. The method of data collect were through the Beautiful Nubia and 9ice’s selected musical texts which were transcribed, translated and critically examined. This research discovered that Beautiful Nubia and 9ice uses features of oral literature to make their song more pleasing and effectively pass their political message to their audience. Beautiful Nubia engages the use legend of Aare Kurunmi to address leadership challenges facing the nation. Beautiful Nubia highlights and extols some leadership qualities Kurunmi displays such as selflessness, fearlessness, bravery and honesty that current crops of leaders can imbibe and electorate can look out for in candidates for leadership offices. This research also discover that 9ice engages proverbs in advising the electorates to be mindful of who they elect into political offices and shun electing incompetent individuals and that collecting bribes from politicians has its attendants consequences.

KEYWORDS:

9ice, Beautiful Nubia, Oral literature, Politics.

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