期刊名称：VENETS: the Belogradchik journal for local history, cultural heritave and folk studies
印刷版ISSN：1314-0426
电子版ISSN：1314-0256
出版年度：2012
期号：1444
页码：93-111
出版社：SCS CONSULTING LTD
摘要：This study attempts to provide a theoretical framework for the appreciation of music among the Benin, a strategic ethnic group in Nigeria. It investigates how concepts such as folk and popular song, music, noise, speech and sound find their relevant expression and place in the socio-cultural, economic, moral and even psychological setting of the Benin world. Finally, it is discovered that a conceptual approach is crucial, not only to the situation of the Benin oral literary values within a Western ideological context, but also in the facilitation of an objective evaluation of critical aspects of the life of people.
