MAPEH Afro-Latin Music

Question 1

(blank) has always been an important part in the daily life of the African.

Answer 1

Music

Question 2

Music has always been an important part in the daily life of the African (4 blanks)

Answer 2

Work, Religion, Ceremonies, Communication

Question 3

Singing, dancing, hand clapping and the beating of drums are essential to African ceremonies, including what?

Answer 3

Birth, Death, Initiation, Marriage, Funerals

Question 4

Music and dance are also important to (blank) and (blank).

Answer 4

religious expression and political events

Question 5

It is a term used to describe the fusion of West African with Black American music.

Answer 5

Afrobeat

Question 6

It 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.

Answer 6

Apala (Akpala)

Question 7

Apala percussion instruments include..

Answer 7

rattle (sekere), thumb piano (agidigbo), bell (agogo), and two or three talking drums

Question 8

It is a popular musical genre from Salvador, Bahia, and Brazil.

Answer 8

Axe

Question 9

It is a hard and percussive Zimbabwean dance music played on drums with guitar accompaniment, influenced by mbira-based guitar styles.

Answer 9

Jit

Question 10

It is a popular form of South African music featuring a lively and uninhibited variation of the jitterbug, a form of swing dance.

Answer 10

Jive

Question 11

It is a popular music style from Nigeria that relies on the traditional Yoruba rhythms, where the instruments in Juju are more western in origin.

Answer 11

Juju

Question 12

It is a dance style begun in Zaire in the late 1980s, popularized by Kanda Bongo Man.

Answer 12

Kwassa Kwassa

Question 13

It is a South African three-cord township music of the 1930s-1960s which evolved into African Jazz.

Answer 13

Marabi

Question 14

It is a Jamaican sound dominated by bass guitar and drums.

Answer 14

Reggae

Question 15

It is Cuban, Puerto Rican, and Colombian dance music.

Answer 15

Salsa

Question 16

It is the basic underlying rhythm that typifies most Brazillian music.

Answer 16

Samba

Question 17

This is Muslim music performed often as a wake-up call for early breakfast and prayers during Ramadan celebrations.

Answer 17

Were

Question 18

It is a modern Trinidadian and Tobago pop music combining soul and calypso music.

Answer 18

Soca

Question 19

It is fast, carnival-like rhythmic music, from the Creole slang word for ‘party,’ originating in the carribean islands of Guadaloupe and Martinique and popularized in the 1980s.

Answer 19

Zouk

Question 20

It first surfaced in the African state of Pernambuco, combining strong rhythms of African percussion instruments with portuguese melodies.

Answer 20

Maracatu

Question 21

Maracatu Percussion Instruments such as..

Answer 21

Alfaia Drum, Tar ol, Agbe Sakere, Caixa, Miniero or Ganza, Gongue

Question 22

It is a musical form of the late 19th century that has had deep roots in African-American communities. These communities are located in the so-called “Deep South” of the United States.

Answer 22

Blues

Question 23

This was a popular music genre of the 1950s and the 1960s that originated in the United States. It combines elements of African-American gospel music, rhythm and blues, and often jazz.

Answer 23

Soul

Question 24

This term, normally associated with deeply religious person, refers here to a Negro spiritual, a song form by African migrants to America who became enslaved by its white communities.

Answer 24

Spiritual

Question 25

These are percussion instruments that are either struck with a mallet or against one another.

Answer 25

Idiophones

Question 26

It is a west african xylophone.

Answer 26

Balafon

Question 27

These are made of seashells, tin, basketry, animal hoofs, horn, wood, metal bells, cocoons, palm kernels, or tortoise shells.

Answer 27

Rattles

Question 28

It is a single bell or multiple bells that had its origin in traditional Yoruba music and also in the samba baterias (percussion) ensembles.

Answer 28

Agogo