Abstract Popular art remains a magnetic force that appeals to both high- and low-profile people from all walks of life and from diverse climes and creeds. This paper scrutinises the symbiotic relationship between music, a form of popular art, and Lagos, Nigeria’s urban entertainment hub. In extending the frontiers of empirical inquiry, the study also appraises the mode of give-and-take by which music and its agency vis-à-vis the Lagos metropolis negotiate the indigenous soundscape of the postcolonial metropolis. This paper unearths the cultural bonds and social interactive cohesion that served as the springboard on which Lagos was built as an African mega-metropolis and on which African music is repositioned as a global brand. Against the backdrop of the norm of reciprocity, this paper examines the kinship and mutual exchange of social consciousness between the metropolis and musical agencies. The paper asserts social, cultural, political, and economic contexts as sites for the vocalisation of space in sounds and the localisation of sounds in socio-space, with evidence of mutual exchange and interaction through musical performance and the production of geographical space.

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拉各斯：音乐与后殖民都市

摘要流行艺术仍然是一种吸引力，吸引着各行各业以及不同气候和信仰的高调和低调人群。本文详细研究了一种流行艺术音乐与尼日利亚城市娱乐中心拉各斯之间的共生关系。在扩展实证研究的前沿领域时，该研究还评估了音乐及其与拉各斯大都市相对的代理人就后殖民大都市的本土音景进行谈判的让与购方式。本文发掘了文化纽带和社会互动凝聚力，这些文化纽带是拉各斯成为非洲大都市的跳板，非洲音乐被重新定位为全球品牌的跳板。在互惠规范的背景下，本文考察了大都市和音乐代理商之间的亲属关系和社会意识的相互交流。该论文主张社会，文化，政治和经济环境是声音空间发声和社会空间声音本地化的场所，并通过音乐表演和地理空间的产生相互交换和互动。