Music GA 2.1 Flashcards
-Their music was orally transmitted from generation to generation
-As a result of forces of colonization, independence, and globalization, African music and society has changed
-Remains very important until now despite the changes in the forms of music including the infusion of instruments, musical styles, and genres from outside the African continent
African Music
-Simultaneous combination of several musical parts
Polyphony
-Two or more different rhythms simultaneously
Polyrhythm
-Different voices, instrumental parts are brought into lively exchange
Conversational Style of Music
-Combines West African musical styles such as Yoruba music, jazz, highlife, funk rhythms, and fused with African percussion and vocal styles
-It features chants, call-and-response vocals, and complex rhythms
Afrobeat
-Is a musical style developed in the late 1930 from Nigerian people of Yoruba
-This style was used during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan to wake the worshippers after fasting
Apala
-Is a popular style of music fused with Afro-Carribean styles of Marcha, Reggae, and Calypso
-This word came from Yoruba religious greetings which means soul, light, spirit, or good vibration
Axe
-Is a popular style of Zimbabwean dance music that features quick and fast rhythm played on drums and accompanied by a guitar
Jit
-Is a lively and uninhibited variation of the Jitterbug (a form of swing dance) which was originated in the United States in the early 1930s from Africans-Americans
Jive
-Is a popular style of music from Nigeria that derives from traditional Yoruba percussion
Juju
-Is a dance style which begun in Zaire and developed by Kanda Bongo Man in the late 1980s and early 1990s
-It is a dance rhythm from Congo, where the dancers move their hands in a motion that corresponds to the movement of their hips
Kwassa Kwassa
-Was a name given to a keyboard style similar to American ragtime and blues with roots of African tradition originated in the 1920s
-It is characterized by repeated harmonic patterns and a few simple chords in different improvised patterns to let the people dance for extended period of time
Marabi
