page_title: Igbo culture
section_title: Music
hierarchical_section_title: Igbo culture / Music
caption_attribution_description: English: Computer generated image of an udu made by me.
context_page_description: Igbo culture are the customs, practices and traditions of the Igbo people of southeastern Nigeria. It comprises archaic practices as well as new concepts added into the Igbo culture either by cultural evolution or by outside influence. These customs and traditions include the Igbo people's visual art, music and dance forms, as well as their attire, cuisine and language dialects. Because of their various subgroups, the variety of their culture is heightened further.
context_section_description: The Igbo peoples have a melodic and symphonic musical style, which they designed from forged iron. Other instruments include opi otherwise known as Oja a wind instrument similar to the flute, igba, and ichaka.
  Another popular musical form among Igbo people is highlife, which is a fusion of jazz and traditional music and widely popular in West Africa. The modern Igbo highlife is seen in the works of Prince Nico Mbarga Dr Sir Warrior, Oliver De Coque, Bright Chimezie, celestine ukwu and Chief Osita Osadebe, who are some of the greatest Igbo highlife musicians of the twentieth century.
  There are also other notable Igbo highlife artists, like the Mike Ejeagha, Paulson Kalu, Ali Chukwuma, Ozoemena Nwa Nsugbe.
caption: Udu, an Igbo instrument
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