The Place of Indigenous Music Education in Africa: The Case of music Colleges in Ethiopia and South Africa.
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2023-10-01
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Addis Abeba Universty
Abstract
Due to a number of factors, music education at higher education institutions encounters a range
of challenges , and an adequate amount of attention is not given to music education as a role in
the development of indigenous music. Tertiary music education must include indigenous music
education in order to fulfill its obligation to provide music teachers with an opportunity to utilize
indigenous knowledge effectively. Since Ethiopia has a rich history of indigenous music, it is
widely considered that properly integrating indigenous music education will significantly
advance Ethiopian music education. This study makes an effort to assess how indigenous music
education is included in Ethiopian music colleges, namely Entoto TVET College, AAU Yared
Music School, and South African college of Music University of Cape Town's, music department.
For the study's execution qualitative content analysis was used through analyzing related
documents on indigenous music education. The categories of the qualitative content analysis
units in the study were based on phrases and topics. Furthermore Semi-structured interviews
were used in this study to gather additional data. Semi-structured interviews with the music
teachers and principal of the two institutions were undertaken to collect the verbal data. The
data gathered during the investigation showed that it was insufficient to include indigenous
music education. Lack of sufficient consideration for indigenous music in educational policy and
curriculum is the key factor affecting the extent of its incorporation. The main barriers to the
incorporation of indigenous music instruction in music colleges were a lack of qualified
indigenous music educators and a paucity of indigenous musical instruments. As a result,
according to the research, indigenous music education was included into these colleges through
the texts, which were examined using content analysis to identify six different themes in which
conclusions led to some insightful recommendations to institutions and decision-makers in the
field of music education.
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Higher education, indigenous music, Ethiopia, music colleges, South Africa.