MAPEH - 10 quarter 2 African music

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Afrobeat

used to describe the fusion of West African with black American music

APALA (AKPALA)

⚫ musical genre from Nigerian in the Yoruba tribal style to wake up the worshippers after fasting during the Muslim holy festival of Ramadan

AXE

⚫ musical genre from Salvador, Bahia, and Brazil

⚫fuses the Afro Caribbean styles of the 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

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

KWASSA KWASSA

a dance style begun in Zaire in the late 1980's, popularized by Kanda Bongo Man ⚫hips move back and forth while the arms move following the hips

REGGAE

a Jamaican sound dominated by bass guitar and drums

SALSA

music is Cuban, Puerto Rican, and Colombian dance music comprises various musical genres such as chachacha, mambo

SAMBA

⚫ a lively and rhythmical dance and music with three steps to every bar, making the samba feel like a timed dance

SOCA

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

WERE

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

ZOUK

is fast, carnival-like rhythmic music from the Creole slang word for "party"

MARACATU

rhythms of African percussion

BLUES

expressive and soulful sound Afri-ame

SOUL

Afri-ame gospel music

SPIRITUAL

⚫ deeply religious person

CALL AND RESPONSE

succession of two distinct musical phrases