Performances of most genres of
Yoruba popular music
occur at elaborate parties after rites of passage, such as namings, weddings, and funerals, and at urban nightspots (“hotels
”). Recorded music of local and foreign origin is played, often at high volume, in patrilineal compounds, taxicabs, barbershops, and kiosks. Some genres of popular music are associated with popular Islam, and others with syncretic Christianity; some praise the powerful, and others critique social inequality; some...
