Abstract
The bedrock of music genres in Africa today remains the traditional music. The westernformal music education embraced by African schools during and after the scramble forAfrica by the northern hemisphere has given ‘colorations’ to music genres both in theclassroom and the larger society. Its legacies are found more in popular music. The mostinteresting thing is that essence of music remains undaunted in the faces of all newformalities in the educational system. Music still lives on stage and not on paper. This paperemerges as a derivative of the Yoruba Art Music (YAM) festival premiered in 2015 at theUniversity of Ibadan, Nigeria. With bibliographical evidences and substantial interactionwith a non-Yoruba speaking music scholar this paper sufficed that the YAM festival is worthdoing and is capable of solving other attendant issues in music scholarship.
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