TRAINING OF GANGAN DRUMMERS IN NIGERIAN POLYTECHNICS: A CASE STUDY OF FEDERAL POLYTECTHNIC ILARO

Abstract

Focusing on Music education in our schools, the traditional practice of restricting Dùndún musicianship to specific families in Yoruba land, where apprenticeship often required initiation or affiliation, risk of involving in ritual making before you can study the art can now go to an extinction. Empirical approach was adopted and tutorial class was organized to carry out the field research made by the researcher in his studies to transfer knowledge gained from his consultant. A course outline was designed to study G ngan drum within a semester which was tested and yielded good result. A curriculum can be developed to capture the art of Dùndún musicianship in our schools to prevent cultural extinction and enhance cultural preservation.