Afro-Latin American music

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Traditional music of Africa

functional in nature, used primarily in ceremonial rites such as birth, death, marriage, succession, worship, and spirit invocations

Afrobeat

Fusion of West African with Black American music

Apala

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.

Jit

Is a hard and fast percussive Zimbabwean dance music played on drums with guitar accompaniment, influenced by mbira- based guitar styles.

Jive

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

Juju

a popular music style from Nigeria that relies on the traditional Yoruba rhythms

Kwassa Kwassa

a dance style begun in Zaire in late 1980's popularized by Kanda Bongo

Marabi

A South African three-chord township music of the 1930's-1960's which evolved into African Jazz

Reggae

a Jamaican sound dominated by bass guitar and drums.

Salsa

is cuban, puerto rican, and colombian dance music

Samba

basic underlying rhythm that typifies most Brazilian music

Soca

a modern Trinidadian and Tobago pop music combining "soul" and "calypso" music.

Were

Muslim music performed often as a wake-up call for early breakfast and prayers during Ramadan celebrations

Zouk

a fast , carnival-like rhythmic music, from Creole slang word for "Party"

Maracatu

Ceremony of the coronation of the black kings in 1674 in recife

Alfaia

large wooden drum that is rope-tuned

Blues

style of music evolving from African American spirituals and noted for its melancholy sound

Soul

combines elements of african-american gospel music, rhythmn and blues, and often jazz

Characteristics of Afro-Latin American music

1. Conversation (Call and Response) 2. Improvisation 3. The voice as an instrument 4. The instrument as a voice

Classification of Traditional african instruments

1. Idiophones 2. Membranophones 3. Lamellaphones 4. Chordophones 5. Aerophones