Folk Songs as Sources of History: An Analysis of Alhaji Odolaye Aremu's Ilorin Dadakuada Music

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dc.contributor.authorSalihu, Otukoko Ismail
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-03T11:59:37Z
dc.date.available2024-07-03T11:59:37Z
dc.date.issued2023-01
dc.description.abstractFolk Songs as Sources of History: An Analysis of Alhaji Odolaye Aremu’s Ilorin Dadakuada Music By By Ismail Otukoko SALIHU, PhD Department of Religions, History and Heritage Studies, Faculty of Arts, Kwara State University, Malete salisma2004@yahoo.co.uk; ismail.salihu@kwasu.edu.ng Abstract In their endeavours to reconstruct and interpret the past, historians make use of various sources including oral, written, and material evidence. Over the years, they have had to rely on oral literature in order to understand and reconstruct events, particularly in non-literate societies where the art of writing developed very late. Such forms of oral literature as songs (Orin), proverbs (Owe), praise-names (Oriki) and poems (Arofọ) have, therefore, become part and parcel of traditional sources of history. These “oral and recitative” forms have been described as “a chief characteristic” of traditional history among the Yoruba. Hence, palace drummers and ballad singers were among the ‘professional oral historians’ used in traditional Yoruba society to ‘record’, ‘recite’, ‘preserve’ and transmit ‘history’ from generation to generation. Odolaye Arẹmu’s Dadakuada song (Orin) is one form of folk music that combines various forms of Yoruba oral literature (Oriki, Owe, Arofọ, etc.) With these forms, Odolaye did not only entertain and praise but also informs about past and contemporary events. Thus, issues in socio-economic and political life of the society are regularly subjects of Odolaye’s folk music. At both individual and societal levels, therefore, Odolaye’s songs contain historical information that is of importance in writing biography as well as aspects of socio-economic and political history. This paper seeks to identify, analyze, and draw attention to some of the historical values of the songs of the Dadakuada legend, late Alhaji Muhammed Odolaye Arẹmu.
dc.identifier.citationSalihu, O. I. "Folk Songs as Sources of History: An Analysis of Alhaji Odolaye Aremu's Ilorin Dadakuada Music," VUNA Journal of History and International Relations, 7(1), January 2023
dc.identifier.issn2408-6177
dc.identifier.urihttps://kwasuspace.kwasu.edu.ng/handle/123456789/1479
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherDepartment of History and International Relations, Veritas University, Abuja, Nigeria
dc.relation.ispartofseries7; 1
dc.titleFolk Songs as Sources of History: An Analysis of Alhaji Odolaye Aremu's Ilorin Dadakuada Music
dc.typeArticle
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