Assessment of contemporary music on academic achievement of students in Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo

Abstract

Most students in tertiary institutions nowadays have remarkable admittance to contemporary music and use them in both expected and unexpected ways. They spend hours daily listening, singing and dancing to various genre of contemporary music. This paper set out to examine the effects of contemporary music on the academic achievement of the tertiary institution students with focus on Adeyemi College of Education in Ondo State, Nigeria. A descriptive survey design was employed and the targeted populations for the study comprised both students and lecturers in the institution. The instrument for data collection was a structured and well-designed questionnaire guide. Five hundred and forty (540) students were randomly selected from various departments as well as One hundred (100) lecturers, making a total number of six hundred and forty (640) respondents. Data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistics in form of frequencies and simple percentage. The findings divulge that contemporary music is causing students to lose focus on their academic tasks, promotes a high sense of immorality through use of highly offensive language (lyrics) and dance patterns. This has resulted in penetrability of moral impiety, licentious dressing and sexual perversion among students. This study recommends that students should be encouraged to be listening to music that will convey positive character-building messages for edification and desist from music that egg on and motivate unethical acts.