types of music and musical instruments of africa

Question 1

THE FUSION OF west african with black american music

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afrobeat

Question 2

a music genre FROM NIGERIA; used to wake up workshippers

Answer 2

apala

Question 3

a popular musical genre FROM SALVADOR; fuses the afro-caribbean style; played by carnival bands

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axe

Question 4

FAST PERCUSSIVE ZIMBABWEAN DANCE; influenced by mbira guitar styles

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jit

Question 5

a popular FORM OF SOUTH AFRICAN music; a form of swing dance

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jive

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a popular music style FROM NIGERIA; traditional yoruba rhythms

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juju

Question 7

a dance style BEGUN IN ZAIRE; popularized by kanda bongo man

Answer 7

kwasa-kwasa

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a south african three chord township music

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marabi

Question 9

stuck with a mallet

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idiophones

Question 10

african xylophone

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balafon

Question 11

vessels made of seashells

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rattles

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single or multiple bells

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agogo

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slit gongs used as communication between villages

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atingting kon

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a hollow percussion

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slit drums

Question 15

best known african drums

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djembe

Question 16

type of gourd and shell megaphone

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shekere

Question 17

a hand percussion instrument

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rasp

Question 18

have vibrating animal membranes used in drums

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membranophones

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use their bodies as musical instruments

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body percussion

Question 20

used to send messages

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talking drum

Question 21

most popular african percussion instruments

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lamellaphones

Question 22

thumb piano

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mbira

Question 23

produce sounds from the vibration of strings

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chordophones

Question 24

ancestor of all string instruments

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musical bow

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shaped like a modern guitar

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lute

Question 26

sophisticated harp

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kora

Question 27

stringed instruments with varying sizes

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zither

Question 28

a fiddle from sub-saharan

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zeze

Question 29

fashioned from a single tube

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flutes

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produced initially by trapped vibrating air columns

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aerophones

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made from elephant tusk

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horns & trumpets

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made from a hollow guinea corn

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reed pipes

Question 33

may be made of wood

Answer 33

whistles

Question 34

made of metal

Answer 34

trumpets