The relevance of music to African commuting practices and sociocultural experiences offers interesting perspectives, not least, for an ethnomusicology of public culture. Of the different functional modes of public transportation available in modern Nigeria, road transportation is the most patronised. Following an ethnographic approach, and with reference to cultural anthropology and ethnomusicology, this article examines the nature of and reasons for everyday application of genres of Nigerian popular music to road travels. By nuancing the connections between transportation, rurality/urbanity and, say, hip hop, this article reveals how music and transport intersect to inform and shape music-making, social class, taste, place, and listening practices in one of Africa’s most populous societies.

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音乐与非洲通勤习惯的相关性：尼日利亚的经验

音乐与非洲通勤实践和社会文化体验的相关性为公共文化的民族音乐学提供了有趣的视角。在现代尼日利亚可用的各种不同功能的公共交通方式中，公路交通是最受欢迎的。遵循民族志方法，并参考文化人类学和民族音乐学，本文研究了尼日利亚流行音乐类型在公路旅行中日常应用的性质和原因。通过细致分析交通、乡村/城市和嘻哈之间的联系，本文揭示了音乐和交通如何相交，以告知和塑造非洲人口最多的社会之一的音乐制作、社会阶层、品味、地方和聆听习惯.