Quarter 2 || L1 African Music

Types of African Music, Vocal Music, and Instruments

African Music

Music of Contemporary America, Latin America, and European music. Its highly energetic and rhythmically challenging beats are quite universal.

Traditional Music of Africa

Mainly functional in nature which is used
primarily in ceremonial rites, such as birth,
death, marriage, succession, worship, and
spirit invocations. Others are work related or
social in nature, while many traditional
societies view their music as a form of
entertainment.

Afrobeat

Fusion of West African with Black American music

Apala (Akpala)

Musical genre from Nigeria in the Yoruba tribal style to wake up the worshippers after fasting during the Muslim holy feast of Ramadan.

Axe

Popular musical genre from Salvador, Bahia, and Brazil. It fuses the Afro- Caribbean styles of
marcha, reggae, and calypso.

Jit

Hard and fast percussive Zimbabwean dance music played on drums with guitar accompaniment influenced by mbira-based guitar styles.

Jive

Popular form of South African music featuring a lively and uninhibited variation of the jitterbug, a form of swing dance.

Juju

Nigeria style, relies on
traditional Yoruba rhythms.
A drum kit, keyboard,
pedal steel guitar, and
accordion are used along
with talking drum or
squeeze drum.

Kwassa-Kwassa

In this dance style, the hips move back and forth while the arms move following the hips

Marabi

African Jazz.

Maracatu

Portuguese

Blues

Expressional and soulful

Soul

African-American gospel

Spiritual

Negros Spiritual

Call and Response

Likened to a question and answer sequence in human communication. The slaves used to sing these songs while simultaneously doing all their tasks in a day.

Idiophone

Sound through body

Agogo

High pitched bell from West African Yoruba culture, used in samba.

Shekere

Gourd Bead, rattling sound, West Africa

Slit-log Drum

Hollow wood with slits, drumstick

Atingting Kon

Slit gong believed to echo the voices of past ancestors

Balafon

Wooden Xylophone

Membranophone

Vibration, stretched membranes

Talking Drum

A drum set to believe that its used to talk to the dead.

Djembe

Popular and hollowed trunk with goat skin

Lamellaphone

Vibrations, wooden & metal tongues.

Mbira

Kambila, Thumb piano.

plucked tines on a sound board, believed to be a communication vector with ancestors and spirits, was used to drive away evil spirits.

Array mbira

Unique harp-like sound, consisting of up to 150 metal tines.

Chordophone

Chords, strings, plucked.. (Bro this is easy)

Musical bow

Bow and arrow, used not for hunting but music.

Zeze

Small fiddle, two strings

Aerophones

Using blown air or wind to produce sound.

Fulani

Side-blown or Vertical flute

Kudu Horn

Made from the horn of a Kudu

EXTRA:

Body Percussion

EXTRA:

African music uses body movements for sound production, with body clapping, thighs slapping, and pounding, while wearing rattles or bells enhances emotional response.