TRADITIONAL MUSIC OF AFRICA Flashcards
What are the traditional music of Africa?
Afrobeat
Apala (Akpala)
Axe
Jit
Jive
Juju
Kwassa-kwassa
It is a term used to describe the fusion of West African with Black American Music
Afrobeat
What do African people use their music for?
Work, religion, ceremonies, and communication
What are essential to many African Ceremonies?
Singing, dancing, hand clapping, and the beating of drums
It is a collective result of the cultural and musical diversity of more than 50 ethnic divisions of the continent
African Music
It is largely functional in nature, used primarily in ceremonial rites, such as birth, death, marriage, succession, worship, and spirit invocations.
African Traditional Music
African music has a basically interlocking structural format, it is due to?
Mainly to it’s overlapping and dense textures as well as it’s rhythmic complexity
A musical genre from Nigeria in the Yoruba tribal style
Apala
Used to wake up the worshippers after fasting during the Muslim Holy Feat of Ramadan
Apala
Percussion instrumentation in this ,traditional music of Africa includes the rattle (sekere), thumb piano (agidigho), bell (agogo), and two or three talking drums.
Apala (Akpala)
It is a popular musical genre from Salvador, Bahia and Brazil.
Axe
It uses the Afro-Canthran styles of the marcha, reggae and calypso, and is played by carnival bands.
Axe
It is a hard and fast percussive Zimbabwean dance music played on drums with guitar accompaniment influenced by mbira-hased guitar tyles
Jit
It is a popular form of South African music featuring alively 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 are more Western in origin. A drum kit, keyboard, pedal steel guitar, and accontion are used along with the traditional dun-dun (talking drum or squeeze drum).
Juju
