Traditional Music of Africa

Question 1

Popular Music

Answer 1

☆Popular music means “music of the populace”.
☆ Developed in the 20th century, pop music is generally comprised of music
for the entertainment of a large audience, whether on radio or in live performances.

Question 2

Apala (Akpala)

Answer 2

☆ It is a musical genre from Nigeria in the Yoruba tribal style.
☆It is used to wake up worshippers after fasting during the Muslim holy feast of Ramadan.
☆The percussion instruments use are the rattle
(sekere), thumb piano (agidigbo), bell (agogo), and
two or three talking drums, is noticeable

Question 3

Afrobeat

Answer 3

 It is a combination of Western African with Black
American music.

Question 4

Axe

Answer 4

 It is a well-known genre from Salvador, Bahia, and
Brazil.
 It is a combination of Afro-Caribbean styles of
marcha and reggae.
 It is played by a carnival band

Question 5

Jit

Answer 5

It is recognized as hard and fast percussive Zimbabwean dance music played on drum with guitar accompaniment
 It is an influenced by mbira-based guitar styles

Question 6

Jive

Answer 6

It is a well-known music form of South African
 It describes as a lively and uninhibited variation of
the jitterbug.

Question 7

Marabi

Answer 7

 It is a three-chord township music of the 1930s-1960s, which evolved into African jazz in South Africa.
 It uses a simple chord in varying vamping patterns
with repetitive harmony over an extended period.

Question 8

Juju

Answer 8

It is a musical style is from Nigeria, and it depends
on the traditional Yoruba rhythms.
 The instruments used are more Western in origin,
and those instruments are drum kits, keyboard, pedal steel guitar, and accordion are used along with
the traditional dun-dun (talking drum or squeeze
drum).

Question 9

Kwassa kwassa

Answer 9

It is a dance style began in Zaire (late 1980).
 Kanda Bongo makes it popular.
 The hips movement back and forth while arms follow
the hip movements is much noticeable in this style