Globalization and Islamic Music (Asalatu) in Nigeria

Abstract This article explores Asalatu , a form of Islamic music among Yoruba Muslims in Nigeria, against the backdrop globalization and impact Western music. The points to observed changes musical possibilities within increasing secularization. Drawing on ethnographic data, illuminates tangential issues such as use mother tongue for opposed Arabic, introduction dance account changes. is major contribution knowledge fields religion Africa, studies, popular/material culture. Globalization has closely knit nations together that there an acceleration integration into global system. Accounting result helps provide insights nature society, whether increasingly religious or secular.