TRADITIONAL AFRICAN MUSIC Flashcards
Is a collective result of
cultural and musical
diversity of more than
50 ethnic divisions of
the continent.
African music
a term used
to describe the fusion
of West African with
black American music.
Afrobeat
is a musical
genre from Nigeria in the
Yoruba tribal style to wake up
the worshippers after fasting
during the Muslim holy feast
Ramadan.
Apala
Apala is also called:
Akpala
a popular
musical genre from
Salvador, Bahia, and
Brazil. It fuses the
Afro- Caribbean styles
of the marcha, reggae,
and calypso
Axe
a hard and fast
percussive Zimbabwean
dance music played on
drums with guitar
accompaniment influenced
by mbira-based guitar styles
Jit
popular form
of South African music
featuring a lively and
uninhibited variation of
the jitterbug, a form of
swing dance.
Jive
popular music
style from Nigeria that
relies on the traditional
Yoruba rhythms, where
the instruments in it
are more Western in
origin.
Juju
a dance
style begun in Zaire in the late
1980’s, popularized by Kanda
Bongo Man. In this dance
style, the hips move back and
forth while the arms move
following the hips.
Kwassa Kwassa
is a South African three-
chord township music of the
1930s-1960s which evolved into
African Jazz. It is characterized by
simple chords in varying vamping
patterns and repetitive harmony
over an extended period of time
to allow the dancers more time on
the dance floor.
Marabi
