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Critique
Osogbo, Oct. 7, 2016 (NAN) Tunji Vidal, a Professor of Music, says absence of critique is one of the factors militating against standards in the Nigerian music industry.
Vidal told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in Osogbo on Friday, that the role played by music reviewers and critiques cannot be over emphasised.
He said music critique was an important component of the music industry, adding that the role was usually carried out by a trained journalist.
“Music critique is an area called music journalism and this role is carried out by a journalist who has been trained for this work.
“Such trained journalist will make his or her findings available to the public usually through the print media.
“Once a musical product arrives in the public domain, it must be reviewed and objectively critiqued for standards and valuated for contribution to the course of music and society just like any other commodity”, he said.
Vidal, a lecturer at Mountain Top University, Lagos, however, said such tradition was lacking in the present day musical culture.
“Anyone who picks up a foreign newspaper such as London Times will easily find such review of musical production.
“But most of the reviews we read in our print media are no more than reports and propaganda.
“A critique starts with a description of the musical event, the place, time, contents, rhythm, melody, the person involved among others”, he said.
The professor of music said the aim was to uphold standards artistically and aesthetically in a particular music as well as in the world of music.
According to him, through critiique, the artists would be informed of their responsibility to the audience and the community which provided the wherewithal and the course of music.
He said it was time this area of culture and media profession was resuscitated as a means of arresting falling standards. (NAN)
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