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.
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