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African Music

Music plays an important role in many aspects of daily life and ceremonies in African cultures. Singing, dancing, drumming, and other instruments are used to mark important life events like birth, death, and marriage as well as religious rituals and political gatherings. There are many diverse musical styles across the 50+ countries on the African continent that incorporate local languages, environments, and cultural influences. Some examples mentioned include Afrobeat, Apala, Jit, Axe, Jive, Juju, Kwassa Kwassa, and Marabi musical genres.

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African Music

Music plays an important role in many aspects of daily life and ceremonies in African cultures. Singing, dancing, drumming, and other instruments are used to mark important life events like birth, death, and marriage as well as religious rituals and political gatherings. There are many diverse musical styles across the 50+ countries on the African continent that incorporate local languages, environments, and cultural influences. Some examples mentioned include Afrobeat, Apala, Jit, Axe, Jive, Juju, Kwassa Kwassa, and Marabi musical genres.

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MUSIC OF AFRICA

QUARTER II
Music has always been an important
part in the daily life of the African in:
work,
religion
ceremonies
communication
Singing, dancing, hand clapping and
the beating of drums are essential to
many African ceremonies, including
those for birth, death, initiation,
marriage, and funerals.
Music and dance are also important
to religious expression and political
events.
Music has always been an important
part in the daily life of the African in:
work,
religion
ceremonies
communication
There has been a growing interest in its
own cultural heritage and musical sources
because of its wide influences on global
music that has permeated contemporary
American, Latin American, and European
styles,
Its rhythmic structures and spiritual
characteristics that have led to the
birth of jazz forms.
African music has been a collective result
from the cultural and musical diversity of
the more than 50 countries of the
continent.
The organization of this continent is a colonial
legacy from European rule of the different
nations up to the end of the 19th century,
whose vastness has enabled it to incorporate
its music with language, environment, political
developments, immigration, and cultural
diversity.
 largely functional in nature
 used primarily in ceremonial rites (birth,
death, marriage, succession, worship, and
spirit invocations).
 work related

 social in nature

 rhythmic complexity
The organization of this continent is a colonial
legacy from European rule of the different
nations up to the end of the 19th century,
whose vastness has enabled it to incorporate
its music with language, environment, political
developments, immigration, and cultural
diversity.
1. Afrobeat Afrobeat
- is a term used to describe the
fusion of West African with black
American music.
2. Apala (Akpala)
- 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 3. Jit
instrumentation -is a hard and fast
includes the percussive Zimbabwean
rattle(sekere), thumb dance music played on
piano(agidigbo), bell drums with guitar
(agogo), and two or accompaniment,
three talking drums. influenced by mbira-
based guitar styles.
4. Axe is a popular
musical genre from
Salvador, Bahia, and
Brazil. It fuses the
AfroCaribbean styles
of the marcha,
reggae, and calypso.
.
5. Jive is a popular
form of South African
music featuring a
lively and uninhibited
variation of the
jitterbug, a form of
swing dance.
6. 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).
6. Juju
7. 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
-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.

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