Music of Africa

This has been a collective result from the cultural and musical diversity of the more than 50 countries of the continent.

African Music

This is known for its vibrant drumming traditions and the development of genre like highlife and afrobeat, pioneered by artist like Fela Kuti.

West Africa

This is home to Congolese rumba and soukous, which feature intricate guitar and danceable rhythms.

Central Africa

This is known for taarab and benga, as well as the Swahili-language music that blends Arabic, African, and Indian influences.

East Africa

This is a strong tradition of choral singing, and the regions musical output includes genre like mbube, kwaito, and the global pop sensation known as “Afropop.”

Southern Africa

This is a term to describe the fusion of west african with black american music.

Afrobeat

This is a musical genre from Nigeria in the yoruba tribal style to wake up the worshippers after fasting during the muslim holy feast of Ramadan.

Apala or Akpala

This type fuses the afro-caribbean style of the marcha, reggae, and calypso. A popular musical genre from Salvador, Bahia, and Brazil.

Axe

They are the artist that have been instrumental in bringing axe music to a broader audience, both within Brazil and internationally.

Ivete Sangalo, Daniela Mercury, and Claudia Leitte

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

Jit

Jit grew in popularity in 1980s, with bands like the ____ helping to spread jit music internationally.

Bhundu Boys

Jiti used to be called as?

Chinhungu

This is a popular form of South American music featuring a lively and inhibited variation of the jitterbug or of swing dance.

Jive

This is a popular music style from nigeria that relies on the traditional yoruba rhythms, and its instruments are more western in origin.

Juju

Juju relies on the traditional…

Yoruba Rhythms

Kwassa kwassa is a dance style begun in Zaire that is popularized by?

Kanda Bongo Man

In this dance style the hips move back and forth while the arms move following the hips. It's catchy rhythms and easy-to-follow movements made it accessible and enjoyable for people of all ages.

Kwassa kwassa

This is a genre known for its fast-paaced, guitar-driven sound.

Soukous

It is a South African three-chord township which evolved into african jazz.

Marabi

They are the musicians that helped to popularized African jazz internationally, carrying forward Marabi’s influence and introducing South African sound to global music scene.

Miriam Makeba and Hugh Masekala

It refers to a particular music style that was strongly influenced by traditional mento and calypso music, as well as American jazz, rhythms, and blues.

Reggae

It is a Jamaican sound dominated by bass guitar and drums.

Reggae

It comprises various musical genre including the Cuban son montuno, guaracha, chachacha, mambo, and bolero.

Salsa

This is a modern Trinidadian and Tobago pop music combining soul and calypso music.

Soca

The basic underlying rhythms that typifies most Brazilian music. It also has three-steps to every bar making it feel like a timed dance.

Samba

Muslims music performed often as a wake-up call for early breakfast and prayers during ramadan celebration.

Were

It is a fast, carnival-like rhythmic music originating in the Caribbean island of Guadalupe and Martinique.

Zouk

The word Zouk is from a Creole slang word for?

Party

This is the ceremony of the coronation of the black kings in 1674 in Recife.

Maracatu

The maracatu groups were called as _____ who paraded with a drumming ensemble numbering up to 100, accompanied by a singer, chorus, and coterie of dancers.

Nacoes or Nations

This is a musical form that has deep roots in african american communities, and the slaves and their descendants used to sing as they worked in the cotton and vegetable fields.

Blues

Some notable performers of Blues are?

Ray Charles, Cab Calloway, and Steve Winwood

This combines the basic of rhythms and blues, gospel music and often jazz that is accompanied by hand claps and extemporaneous body moves.

Soul

He is the Godfather of Soul.

James Brown

It is a kind of music which always has Christian and Religious theme.

Spiritual

Spiritual is ___ in nature and in a capella

Monophonic

This is a sequence of two different phrases usually played by two or more musicians.

Calll and Response

It is a percussion instrument that are either struck with a mallet or against one another.

Idiophone

Instruments which have vibrating animal membrane used in drums.

Membranophones

It is a set of plucked tongues or keys mounted on a soundboard.

Lamellaphone

Lamellaphone is known by different names such as?

Mbira, Karimba, Kisaanj, and Likembe

Instruments which produce sounds from the vibration of strings.

Chordophones

Produced by trapped vibrating air columns or which enclosed a body of vibrating.

Aerophones