Benin Oral Poetry

This study attempts to provide a theoretical framework for the appreciation of music among the Benin, a strategic ethnic group in Nige- ria. It investigates how concepts such as folk and popular song, music, noise, speech and sound find their relevant expression and place in the socio- cultural, economic, moral and even psychological setting of the Benin world. Finally, it is discovered that a conceptual approach is crucial, not only to the situation of the Benin oral literary values within a Western ideological con- text, but also in the facilitation of an objective evaluation of critical aspects of the life of people