AFRICAN MUSIC 10 Q2

Singing, dancing, hand clapping and the beating of drums are essential to many ceremonies :

birth, death, inflation, marriage and funerals

Important to

religious expression and political events

• Great influences in global music:

• Contemporary American

• Latin American 

• European Style

Traditional Music Of Africa

APALA, AXE, JIT, JIVE, JUJU, KWASSA KWASSA

• from Nigeria ( Yoruba Tribal Style)

APALA

• Wake up worshippers after fasting during Ramadan

APALA

• Instruments : rattle (sekere), thumb piano (agidigbo), bell (agogo), 2 or 3 talking drums

APALA

from Salvador, Bahia and Brazil

AXE

• Fuses Afro-Caribbean styles of the marcha, reggae and calypso

AXE

• Hard and fast Zimbabwean dance music

JIT

• Played on drums with guitar

JIT

Lively and uninhibited variation of jitterbug

JIVE

• Popular style from Nigeria

JUJU

Relies on the traditional Yoruba rhythms

JUJU

Shake your booty dance style begun in Zaire in the late 80's

KWASSA KWASSA

Music of Africa

MARABI, REGGAE, SALSA, SAMBA, SOCA, WERE, ZOUK

• Simple chords in varying vamping patterns and repetitive harmony (extended period of time)

MARABI

• Allow dances more time on the dance floor

MARABI

Jamaican sound dominated by bass and guitar chops associated with Rastsafarian Religion

REGGAE

• Afro-Cuban music

SALSA

Typifies most Brazilian Music

SAMBA