African music has historically played an important role in daily life for ceremonies, work, religion, and communication. It has also influenced global music styles. Traditional African music is largely functional and used for rites of passage and worship, featuring complex, overlapping rhythms. Some African music genres described in the document include Afrobeat, Apala, Axe, Jit, Jive, Juju, Kwasa Kwasa, and Marabi - each with distinguishing instrumentation and styles of dance.
African music has historically played an important role in daily life for ceremonies, work, religion, and communication. It has also influenced global music styles. Traditional African music is largely functional and used for rites of passage and worship, featuring complex, overlapping rhythms. Some African music genres described in the document include Afrobeat, Apala, Axe, Jit, Jive, Juju, Kwasa Kwasa, and Marabi - each with distinguishing instrumentation and styles of dance.
African music has historically played an important role in daily life for ceremonies, work, religion, and communication. It has also influenced global music styles. Traditional African music is largely functional and used for rites of passage and worship, featuring complex, overlapping rhythms. Some African music genres described in the document include Afrobeat, Apala, Axe, Jit, Jive, Juju, Kwasa Kwasa, and Marabi - each with distinguishing instrumentation and styles of dance.
African music has historically played an important role in daily life for ceremonies, work, religion, and communication. It has also influenced global music styles. Traditional African music is largely functional and used for rites of passage and worship, featuring complex, overlapping rhythms. Some African music genres described in the document include Afrobeat, Apala, Axe, Jit, Jive, Juju, Kwasa Kwasa, and Marabi - each with distinguishing instrumentation and styles of dance.
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MUSIC OF
AFRICA QUARTER II : AFRO-LATIN AMERICAN AND POPULAR MUSIC AFRICAN MUSIC
Music has always been an
important part of the daily life of the African people,whether for work, religion, ceremonies, or even communication. Because of the wide influence of African music on global music—having permeated contemporary American, Latin American,and European styles—there has been a growing interest in it’s own cultural heritages and musical TRADITIONAL MUSIC OF AFRICA
African traditional music is largely
functional in nature, used primarily in ceremonial rites, such as birth, death, succession, worship, and spiritual invocations. African music has a basically interlocking structural format, due mainly to its overlapping and dense texture as well as its rhythmic complexity. AFROBEAT
Is a term used to
describe the fusion of West African with black American music. APALA(AKPALA) Is a musical genre from Nigeria in the Yuroba tribe style, used to wake up the worshippers after fasting during the Muslim holy feast of Ramadan. Percussion instrumentation includes the rattle (sekere), thumb piano (agidigbo), and two or three talking drums. AXE Is a popular musical genre from Salvador, Bahia and Brazil. It fuses the Afro- Caribbean styles of the marcha, reggae, and calypso, and is played by carnival bands. JIT Is a hard and fast percussive Zimbabwean dance music played on drums with guitar accompaniment, influenced by mbira- based guitar styles. JIVE Is a popular form of South African music featuring a lively and uninhibited variation of the jiiterbug, a form of swing dance. JUJU Is a popular music style from Nigeria that relies on the traditional Yuroba rhythms, where the instruments 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 KWASA KWASA Is a dance style begun in Zaire in the late 1980s, popularized by Kanda Bongo Man. In this dance style, the hips move back and forth while the arms follow the hips movements. MARABI Is a South African three-chord township music of the 1930s-1960s which evolved into African jazz.It makes use of a keyboard style that combines American jazz, ragtime, and blues with African roots. It is characterized simple chords in varying vamping patterns and repetitive harmony over an extended period of time to allow dancers more time on the dance floor. That’s all, THANK YOU 😁😎😗 ABAS , ABEJUELA , ACOPIO , ACUNIA , ARQUIZA