AFRO-LATIN AMERICAN MUSIC

• We use the term afro-Latin to describe types of music from Latin American countries that were influenced by the black slave population that came from Africa.

• It has yodeling and an upbeat music with the accompaniment of a drum instrument.

• Music plays a significant purpose to the culture and traditions to the African and Latin.

• They always use music by activity such as birth, christening, thanksgiving, harvesting crops, wedding rites, death and mourning, and etc.

• Function and purpose of this is to communicate, entertain and to accompany worship activity.

• Afro-Latin music can be traced back to the Spanish and Portuguese conquest of the Americans in the 16th century

CHARACTERISTICS OF AFRO-LATIN

• Gloomy folk music of African American origin, which is naturally in a twelve-bar order languages. Person leads by singing a phrase and followed and answered by a group of singers.

• Conversation “call and response” – a performance of voice interaction as an answer to the first chant.

• Improvisation which there is no script in ways of singing that allow for sincere conversations.

• The voice as an instrument; it is the manipulated of a freely controlled piece where they can change the tone of voice, its tempo, the creation of moods and even changing the range and voice power.

• Instrument serves as a singer along with the performer.

History of Afro-Latin American Music

• Their music is identified by their rhythms, which they adapted from the elements of Moorish music and other African and Caribbean music in the slave trade from 1550 to 1880.

• Music in Africa always has the technique of “call and response” in which a person leads by singing a phrase and followed and answered by a group of singers.

• MARACATU is the ceremony of the coronation of the black kings in 1674 in Recife.

THE AFRICAN RHYTHM CALLED MARACATU

• MARACATU is the ceremony of the coronation of the black kings in 1674 in Recife.

• Each king is a representative of a nation or tribe

• The designation of the king is called MARACATU NACAO

• BAQUE or TOQUE is considered as the rhythmic pattern used in MARACATU.

• This rhythm uses TOADA, which is the singing part of MARACATU

• Begins with the singing from a song leader and with a response in chorus by subordinates

VOCAL FORMS OF AFRICAN MUSIC

1. Blues – this is a gloomy folk of African American origin, this urban blues gave birth to rock and roll and rhythm and blues.

2. Soul – a kind of music combining the basics of rhythms and blues and gospel music, which was popularized by the African-American.

3. Spiritual – this kind of music is always with a Christian or religious theme

4. Call and response – it is a commentary response.

DIFFERENT INSTRUMENTS OF AFROLATIN

1. Bombo – played using sticks

2. Chajchas – worn with a wrist cloth bracelet.

3. Zamponas

4. Charango – made from shell of an armadillo

5. Quena – a flute made of bones or bamboo that has a vertical notched reed

6. Cajon – played and used as a drum.

7. Maracas – played by shaking

8. Maracas – played by shaking

THE DANCE FORMS OF LATIN AMERICAN

1. Cumbia – a type of dance and music similar to salsa and uses instruments.

2. Tango – a lively and spirited dance of two people.

3. Cha-cha – a Latin-American ballroom dance with the basic pattern.

4. Bossanova – a style of music that was derived from samba, which is an original Brazilian music.

5. Paso doble – Spain’s traditional couple dance.

6. Reggae – a Jamaican form of music and dance with strong, accented and supplementary beats.

7. Rumba – a kind of song and a dance and originated from Cuba.

8. Foxtrot – a ballroom dance of two quick slow steps and two quick steps.

JAZZ MUSIC

1. A type of music with an African-American origin that started in the early 20th century with syncopated beats, improvised sounds, and a regular and forceful rhythmic pattern.

Types of Jazz music

• Ragtime - A popular American music in 1890 until 1915. It has syncopation and a melody with rhythmic pattern of two-four time.

• Biaband - One of the popular music trend produced by African-American. Became popular in the late 19th century

• Bebop - Dizzy Gillepie and Charlie Parker introduced this kind of musical genre in 1940s. Performed in smaller groups.

• Jazz rock - Sometimes called jazz fusion is variant of a musical fusion genre that developed from mixing funk and R & B in the amplification and electronic effects of rock music.

POPULAR MUSIC

• Said to be the music of the majority, something appreciated or has appeal many.

• It is the “people’s music”

HISTORY POPULAR MUSIC

• It originated with the ragtime of the 1890s and early 1900s.

• In the 1950s and 1960s, a new type of music emerged. This new genre of music was called rock and roll and was characterized by fast rhythms, strong beats, and soulful lyrics.

• Elvis Presley was the ''King of Rock and Roll'' and was one of the first artists to popularize this new genre. Presley's popularity was matched by another rock and roll act known as the Beatles, who were a part of the British music invasion, and the Beach Boys, who surfed into the mix with their musical representation of Southern California culture.

What makes popular music popular? - Pop music usually repeats its patterns, rhythms, and lyrics as well because most of the song revolve around the same themes and topics.

POPULAR MUSIC GENRES

• Blues music

• Jazz music

• Rhythm and blues music

• Rock and roll music

• Rock music

• Country music

• Soul music

• Dance music