The Significance Of Harari Music
- Identifier
- 30
- Title
- The Significance Of Harari Music
- Date
- 2010 See all items with this value
- Type
- Articles See all items with this value
- Description
- College of Education, Addis Ababa UniversityABSTRACTThe purpose of this article is to show that cassette and CD recordings of Harari pop songs are significant and useful in promoting public policies in the education and culture sectors. The method employed for this study is both quantitative and qualitative analysis. The study is based on Harari songs released on seventeen cassettes or CDs, and is supplemented by an investigation of objectives set forth in Ethiopia’s Culture Policy, and Education and Training Policy. Purposive sampling was considered and categories were delineated for the songs as well as the objectives of the policies. Then the core messages of the songs were compared with the objectives of the policies. The education and Training Policy while eleven songs reflected the Cultural Policy. The core message of these and similar songs may best be evaluated in terms of the overt and subtle contributions of musical expressions in preserving local knowledge; they can be useful in promoting education, protecting cultural heritage, and maintaining societal norms and values.
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