African Popular Musicians
Music · 50 practice questions
Knowledge of the lives and music of Nigerian popular musicians (e.g. Fela Anikulapo Kuti, I. K. Dairo, Victor Olaiya, Ebenezer Obey, Sunny Ade, 2Face, Wizkid, Davido, Asa, Onyeka Onwenu) and other African popular musicians (e.g. Manu Dibango, E. T. Mensah, Salif Keita, Angelique Kidjo, Lucky Dube, Brenda Fassie).
- Relate the musicians to the music they perform.
- Trace their biographies.
- Examine their type of music.
- Assess their contributions to the development of music.
Try a few questions
- Practice question 1
The music video, as a visual medium, specifically has become an important tool for African popular musicians to
- A.actively discourage any further interest in their own recorded or live music
- B.a factor entirely unrelated to becoming an important tool for musicians to promote their own work
- C.promote their own work
- D.avoid ever having to perform live in front of any public audience again
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C. promote their own work
The music video, as a visual medium, specifically has become an important tool for African popular musicians to promote their own work.
- Practice question 2
African popular musicians, broadly, specifically often serve as
- A.cultural ambassadors, representing their countries on international stages
- B.strictly private performers, never representing their country on any public stage
- C.representatives exclusively of a single, foreign, non-African nation instead
- D.a factor entirely unrelated to serving as cultural ambassadors internationally
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A. cultural ambassadors, representing their countries on international stages
African popular musicians, broadly, specifically often serve as cultural ambassadors, representing their countries internationally.
- Practice question 3
Onyeka Onwenu, a Nigerian popular musician, specifically is well known as both a
- A.a factor entirely unrelated to being known as both a musician and an actress
- B.strictly Ghanaian ethnomusicologist, a career unrelated to her actual background
- C.musician and an actress
- D.strictly Western classical orchestral conductor, unrelated to her actual career
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C. musician and an actress
Onyeka Onwenu, a Nigerian popular musician, specifically is well known as both a musician and an actress.
More UTME Music topics
- Black Musicians in the Diaspora
- Historical Development of Western Music Styles
- Nigerian Folksongs
- The Staff
- Triads and Their Inversions
- Chord Progressions
- Music Forms and Media
- Music Notes/Rests and Their Values
- Musical Genres
- Nigerian Traditional Music and Other Arts
- Kinds of Motion
- Nationalism in Nigerian Music
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