MAPEH Afro-Latin Music Flashcards
(blank) has always been an important part in the daily life of the African.
Music
Music has always been an important part in the daily life of the African (4 blanks)
Work, Religion, Ceremonies, Communication
Singing, dancing, hand clapping and the beating of drums are essential to African ceremonies, including what?
Birth, Death, Initiation, Marriage, Funerals
Music and dance are also important to (blank) and (blank).
religious expression and political events
It is a term used to describe the fusion of West African with Black American music.
Afrobeat
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.
Apala (Akpala)
Apala percussion instruments include..
rattle (sekere), thumb piano (agidigbo), bell (agogo), and two or three talking drums
It is a popular musical genre from Salvador, Bahia, and Brazil.
Axe
It is a hard and percussive Zimbabwean dance music played on drums with guitar accompaniment, influenced by mbira-based guitar styles.
Jit
It is a popular form of South African music featuring a lively and uninhibited variation of the jitterbug, a form of swing dance.
Jive
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.
Juju
It is a dance style begun in Zaire in the late 1980s, popularized by Kanda Bongo Man.
Kwassa Kwassa
It is a South African three-cord township music of the 1930s-1960s which evolved into African Jazz.
Marabi
It is a Jamaican sound dominated by bass guitar and drums.
Reggae
It is Cuban, Puerto Rican, and Colombian dance music.
Salsa
It is the basic underlying rhythm that typifies most Brazillian music.
Samba
This is Muslim music performed often as a wake-up call for early breakfast and prayers during Ramadan celebrations.
Were
It is a modern Trinidadian and Tobago pop music combining soul and calypso music.
Soca
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.
Zouk
It first surfaced in the African state of Pernambuco, combining strong rhythms of African percussion instruments with portuguese melodies.
Maracatu
Maracatu Percussion Instruments such as..
Alfaia Drum, Tar ol, Agbe Sakere, Caixa, Miniero or Ganza, Gongue
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.
Blues
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.
Soul
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.
Spiritual
