The issue of musical composition is also highly variable. In the northern regions, farmers work together on each other's farms and the host is expected to supply musicians for his neighbours., Women use complex rhythms in housekeeping tasks, such as pounding yams to highly ornamented music. They help to keep the rhythm of workers in fields, river canoes and other fields. Work songs are a common type of traditional Nigerian music. Music is closely linked to agriculture, and there are restrictions on, for example, which instruments can be played during different parts of the planting season.
Although some Nigerians, especially children and the elderly, play instruments for their own amusement, solo performance is otherwise rare. Traditional music from Nigeria and throughout Africa is almost always functional in other words, it is performed to mark a ritual such as the wedding or funeral and not to achieve artistic goals. Although Nigeria have over 250 ethnic groups but the largest ethnic groups are the Igbo, Hausa and Yoruba. The country's most internationally renowned genres are Indigenous, Apala, Ogene, Fuji, Jùjú, Afrobeat, Afrobeats, Igbo Highlife, Afro-juju, Waka, Igbo rap, Gospel, Yo-pop. Little is known about the country's music history prior to European contact, although bronze carvings dating back to the 16th and 17th centuries have been found depicting musicians and their instruments. The music of Nigeria includes many kinds of folk and popular music, styles of folk music are related to the multitudes of ethnic groups in the country, each with their own techniques, instruments, and songs.
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