AFRICAN MUSIC Flashcards
is a term used to describe the fusion
of West African with black American music
Afrobeat
is a musical
genre from Nigeria in
The Yoruba tribal style
to wake up the
Worshippers after fasting during the Muslim
holy feast of Ramadan. Percussion
instrumentation includes the rattle (sekere),
thumb piano (agidigbo), bell(agogo), and two
or three talking drums.
Apala
is a popular musical genre from Salvador,
Bahia, and Brazil. It fuses the AfroCaribbean styles of the marcha, reggae, and
calypso.
Axe
a hard and fast percussive Zimbabwean
dance
music played on drums with guitar
accompaniment,
influenced by mbira-based guitar styles
Jit
is a popular form of South African music
featuring a lively and uninhibited variation of the
jitterbug, a form of swing dance.
Jive
is a popular music style from Nigeria that
relies on the traditional Yoruba rhythms,
where the instruments in Juju are more Western
in origin. A drum kit, keyboard, pedal
steel guitar, and accordion are used along with
the traditional
dun-dun
(talking drum
Or squeeze
drum).
Juju
is a dance style begun in Zaire
in the late 1980’s, popularized by Kanda
Bongo Man. In this dance
style, the hips move
back and forth while the
arms move following
the hips.
Kwassa Kwasaa
s a South African three-chord
township music of the 1930s-1960s
which evolved into African Jazz.
Marabi
Jamaican sound dominated by
bass guitar and drums
Reggae
Cuban, Puerto Rican, and
Colombian dance music. It comprises various
musical genres including the Cuban son
montuno, guaracha, chachacha, mambo and
bolero
Salsa
is the basic underlying rhythm that typifies most Brazilian
music. It is a lively and
rhythmical dance and music with three steps to every bar, making it a timed dance
Samba
a modern Trinidadian and Tobago pop
music combining “soul” and “calypso” music.
Soca
Muslim music performed often as a
wake-up call for early breakfast and prayers
during Ramadan
celebrations. Relying on pre-arranged music, it
fusesthe African and European music styles
with particular usage of the natural harmonic
series
Were
fast, carnival-like hythmic music, from
the Creole slang word for ‘party,’ originating in
the Carribean Islands of Guadaloupe and
Martinique and popularized in the 1980’s.
ZOuk
first surfaced in the African state of
Pernambuco,combining the strong rhythms of
African percussion
Instruments with
Portuguese melodies.
Maracatu
Maracatu uses mostly percussion instruments (ATACMG)
Alafaia Drum
Tar ol
Agbe Sakere
Caixa
Miniero or Ganza
Gongue
is a musical form of the late 19th
century that has had deep roots in AfricanAmerican communities. These communities are
located in the so-called “Deep South”
of the United States. The slaves and their
descendants used to sing as they worked in the
cotton and vegetable fields
Blues
was a popular music genre of the
1950’s and 1960’s. It originated in the
United States. It combines elements of AfricanAmerican gospel music, rhythm and blues,
and often jazz.
Soul
normally associated with a
deeply religious person, refers here to a
Negro spiritual, a song form by African
migrants to America who became enslaved by
its white communities.
Spiritual
percussion instruments that are
either struck with a mallet or against
one another.
Idiophones
It is a West
African xylophone.
Balafon
are made of seashells, tin,
basketry, animal hoofs, horn, wood, metal bells,
cocoons, palm kernels, or tortoise shells.
Rattles
It isa single bell or
multiple bells that had its origins in
traditional Yoruba music and also in the samba
baterias (percussion)
ensembles.
Agogo
These are slit gongs used
to communicate between villages
Atingting Kon
a hollow
percussion instrument.
Slit drum
(pronounced
zhem-bay) is one of the
best-known African drums is.
Djembe
type of gourd
and shell megaphone from West
Africa, consisting of a dried
gourd with beads woven into a
net covering the gourd.
Shekere
is a hand percussion instrument whose sound is produced by scraping the notches on a piece of wood
Rasp or scraper
instruments which have
vibrating animal membranes used in drums.
Membranophones
Africans frequently use
their bodies as musical
instruments.
Body Percussion
is used to
send messages to
Announce births, deaths,
marriages, sporting events,
dances, initiation, or war.
Talking Drum
One of the most popular African percussion
instruments
a set
of plucked tongues or keys mounted on a
sound board. It is known by different names
according to the regions
such as mbira, karimba, kisaanj, and likembe.
Lamellaphone
(aka hand piano or thumb piano) finger xylophone is of African
origin and is used
throughout the continent.
Mbira
instruments which produce
sounds from the vibration of strings.
These include bows, harps, lutes, zithers, and
lyres of various sizes
Chorodophones
is the
ancestor of all string instruments. It
is the oldest and one of the
most widely-used string
instruments of Africa.
Musical bow
originating from the
Arabic states, is shaped like the modern guitar
and played in similar fashion.
Lute
Africa’s
most sophisticated harp,
while also having features
similar to a lute. Its body is
made from a gourd or calabash.
Kora
is a stringed instrument
with varying sizes and shapes
whose strings are stretched along its body
Zither
an African fiddle played
with a bow, a small wooden
stick, or plucked with the fingers. It has one or
two strings, made of steel or
bicycle brake wire.
Zeze
instruments which are
produced initially by trapped vibrating air
columns or which enclose a body of vibrating
air
Aerophones
widely used throughout
Africa and either vertical or
side-blown.
Flutes
found almost
everywhere in Africa, are
commonly made from elephant tusks and
animal horns.
Horns
This is
one type of horn made
from the horn of the
kudu antelope.
Kudu Horn
There are single——
made from hollow guinea corn or
sorghum stems
Reed pipes
found
throughout the continent may be
made of wood or other materials
Whistles
are made of
wood, metal, animal horns,
elephant tusks, and gourds with skins from
snakes, zebras, leopards,
crocodiles and animal hide as ornaments to the
instrument.
Trumpets
