THE NIGERIAN NAVY BAND ON THE WORLD STAGE: FUSING INDIGENOUS SOUND WITH GLOBAL APPEAL

The impact of globalization in every activity of human endeavour Indigenisation, is quite overwhelming and cannot be overemphasized. The world has become Global identity, a global village where the barrier of distance to access the activities of one creativity, band. country or the other has been eradicated and the quest for new identity is in the rise. The military is not left out in the process considering the contemporary challenges they are facing. The Nigerian Navy band can also explore this window to break away from its conventional rigidity and create a global identity for itself. The focus of this paper is to examine the activities of the Nigerian Navy band and identify elements that improve on its activities for global recognition. This paper relied on library study and field work through interview and observation to elicit information. Through analytical examination, the paper discovered that the Navy band was still very rigid in exploring other musical elements to enrich its musical content. The paper suggests indigenisation of musical content as the way forward. The idea of indigenous content was however traced in their works but was not strong enough to give it the desired recognition. This paper concludes that if indigenous content as suggested in this paper is treated with importance, the Nigeria Navy band will be on the road to global recognition.