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    African traditional music is largely functional in nature, used primarily in ceremonial rites like birth, death, marriage and funerals. Music and dance are also important to religious expression and political events. African music has a dense textural and overlapping structure due to its complex rhythms. It is influenced by many different styles that have produced varied genres. Some common genres of African music mentioned are Afrobeat, Apala, Axe, Jit, Jive, Juju, Kwassa Kwassa, and Marabi. Each has distinguishing percussion instruments and rhythmic elements.

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    African traditional music is largely functional in nature, used primarily in ceremonial rites like birth, death, marriage and funerals. Music and dance are also important to religious expression and political events. African music has a dense textural and overlapping structure due to its complex rhythms. It is influenced by many different styles that have produced varied genres. Some common genres of African music mentioned are Afrobeat, Apala, Axe, Jit, Jive, Juju, Kwassa Kwassa, and Marabi. Each has distinguishing percussion instruments and rhythmic elements.

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    African traditional music is largely functional in nature, used primarily in ceremonial rites like birth, death, marriage and funerals. Music and dance are also important to religious expression and political events. African music has a dense textural and overlapping structure due to its complex rhythms. It is influenced by many different styles that have produced varied genres. Some common genres of African music mentioned are Afrobeat, Apala, Axe, Jit, Jive, Juju, Kwassa Kwassa, and Marabi. Each has distinguishing percussion instruments and rhythmic elements.

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    MUSIC OF AFRICA

    - Music has always been an important part in the


    daily life of the African, whether for work, religion,
    ceremonies, or even communication. Singing,
    dancing, hand clapping and the beating of drums
    are essential to many African ceremonies- Music
    and dance are also important to religious
    expression and political events.
    Africa Before the 1800’s Africa
    was called “the Dark Continent”,
    because little was known about
    it.
    TRADITIONAL MUSIC OF AFRICA
    African traditional music is largely functional in nature,
    used primarily in ceremonial rites, such as birth, death,
    marriage, succession, worship, and spirit invocations,
    initiation, marriage, and funerals.
    Others are work related or social in nature, while many
    traditional societies view their music as entertainment.
    It has a basically interlocking structural format, due
    mainly to its overlapping and dense textural
    characteristics as well as its rhythmic complexity.
    Its many sources of stylistic influence have produced
    varied characteristics and genres.
    Some Types of African Music

    1. Afrobeat- Afro beat is a term used to


    describe the fusion of West African with black
    American music.
    2. Apala (Akpala) - Apala 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.
    - Percussion instrumentation includes the rattle(sekere),
    thumb piano(agidigbo), bell (agogo), and two or three
    talking drums.
    3. Axe- Axe is a popular musical genre from
    Salvador, Bahia, and Brazil. It fuses the Afro
    Caribbean styles of the marcha, reggae, and
    calypso.

    Black Caribbean Countries. Black Caribbeans account for a majority of the foreign-born black citizens in
    the U.S. The main Black Caribbean countries include:
    Haiti, The Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Cuba, Trinidad and Tobago.

    Calypso- a type of folk song primarily from Trinidad though sung elsewhere in the southern and
    eastern Caribbean islands
    4. Jit - is a hard and fast percussive
    Zimbabwean dance music played on drums
    with guitar accompaniment, influenced by
    mbira-based guitar styles.
    5. Jive -Jive is a popular form of South African
    music featuring a lively and uninhibited
    variation of the jitterbug, a form of swing
    dance.
     

    Jive- general term used to describe swing dancing


    6. Juju - Juju is a popular music style from Nigeria
    that relies on the traditional Yoruba rhythms, where
    the instruments in Juju are more Western in origin.
    - A drum kit, keyboard, pedal steel guitar, and
    accordion are used along with the traditional dun-
    dun (talking drum or squeeze drum).
    7. Kwassa Kwassa- Kwassa Kwassa is a dance
    style begun in Zaire in the late 1980’s,
    popularized by Kanda Bongo Man.
    - In this dance style, the hips move back and
    forth while the arms move following the hips.
    8. Marabi- Marabi is a South African three-
    chord township music of the 1930s-1960s which
    evolved into African Jazz.
    Possessing a keyboard style combining American
    jazz, ragtime and blues with African roots, it is
    characterized by simple chords in varying vamping
    patterns and repetitive harmony over an extended
    period of time to allow the dancers more time on the
    dance floor.
    PERFORMANCE TASKS:
    1. Groupings- same group of the last Q1
    presentation.
    2. Create a rhythm with “ to the tune of” using
    the different parts of the body that produces
    sounds.
    3. You can combined with any stringed and
    percussion instruments.
    4. With vocals is highly appreciated.

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