music Flashcards
It is used to describe fusion of Western African with Black American
music.
afrobeat
It is a musical genre from Nigeria in the Yoruba tribal style. It used to
wake-up worshippers after fasting during Muslim holy feast of Ramadan.
Percussion instrumentation includes the rattle (sekere), thumb piano
(agidigbo), bell (agogo), and two or three talking drums.
apala (akpala)
It is a popular genre from Salvador, Bahia, and Brazil. It fuses the
Afro-Caribbean styles of marcha and reggae, and is played by carnival bands
axe
It is a hard and fast percussive Zimbabwean dance music played on
drum 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. Jitter is a form of swing dance.
jive
a musical style from Nigeria that relies on the traditional Yoruba
rhythms, where instruments are more Western in origin.
juju
It is a dance style that began in Zaire in the late 1980s, popularized by
Kanda Bongo Man. In this style, the hips move back and forth while arms
follow the hip movement
kwassa kwassa
It is South African three-chord township music of the 1930s-1960s
which evolved into African jazz
marabi
It is a Jamaican musical style that was influenced by the island’s
traditional mento music. Its offbeat rhythm and staccato chords are the most
distinctive qualities of reggae.
reggae
It is dance music from Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Colombia. It is
composed of various genres including the Cuban son montuno, guaracha,
chachacha, mambo, and bolero.
salsa
It is a Brazilian musical genre and style. Its roots can be traced to Afri-
ca via the West African slave trade and African religious tradition particularly
in Angola and the Congo
samba
t is also called as the “soul of calypso”. It originated as a fusion of
calypo with Indian rhythms, thus combining the musical traditions of the
two major ethnic groups of Trinidad and Tobago.
soca
It is a Muslim music often performed as a wake-up call for the early
breakfast and prayers during Ramadan celebrations
were
It is a carnival–like rhythm, from the creole slang word for “party”. It
originated in the Caribbean Islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique and
popularized in the 1980s
zook
