MUSIC Q2 Flashcards
Collective result from cultural and musical diversity
Music of Africa
functional in nature, used primarily in ceremonial rites, such as birth, death, marriage, succession etc
Traditional music of africa
Fusion of west african w/ black american music
Afrobeat
genre from nigeria in yoruba tribal style USED TO WAKE WORSHIPPERS AFTER FASTING
Apala (Akpala)
HARD AND FAST PERCUSSIVE Zimbabwean dance. influenced by MBIRA-BASED GUITAR STYLE
Jit
POPULAR FORM OF SOUTH AFRICAN MUSIC featuring a lively and uninhibited variation of the JITTERBUG
Jive
OFFSHOOT OF AFRICAN SLAVES who migrated to america. THERAPEUTIC OUTLET for human feelings
used to recall NOSTALGIC PAST in home country
Jazz
JAMACIAN SOUND dominated by bass guitar and drum
Reggae
uses cuban, puerto rican and columbia DANCE COMPRISES VARIOUS GENRE
Salsa
basic UNDERLYING RHYTHMN that typifies most BRAZILLIAN MUSIC
Samba
form of latin-american music that first surfaxed in african state of pernambuco. STRONG RHYTHMNS OF AFRICAN PERCUSSION instrument w/ pernambuco melody
Macaratu
DEEP ROOTS in afri-am communities. expressive and soulful that COMMUNICATE VARIOUS EMOTIONS
Blues
from US and was POPULAR MUSIC GENRE OF 1950’S also includes “CALL AND RESPONSE” between soloist and chorus
soul
QUESTIONS AND ANSWER SEQUENCE strong resemblance to the verse-chorus in vocal compositions
Call and response method
sometimes called as LATIN MUSIC, three major influence – indigenous, spanish-portuguese and african
African Music
Nature, RELIGIOUS WORSHIPS and ceremonies
Indigenous latin american
REPETIOUS, wide range volume level
native american/indian
rich and varied RHYTHM PATTERNS by drums percussion
Afro-latin american