AFRICAN MUSIC

Question 1

is a term used to describe the fusion
of West African with black American music

Answer 1

Afrobeat

Question 2

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.

Answer 2

Apala

Question 3

is a popular musical genre from Salvador,
Bahia, and Brazil. It fuses the AfroCaribbean styles of the marcha, reggae, and
calypso.

Answer 3

Axe

Question 4

a hard and fast percussive Zimbabwean
dance
music played on drums with guitar
accompaniment,
influenced by mbira-based guitar styles

Answer 4

Jit

Question 5

is a popular form of South African music
featuring a lively and uninhibited variation of the
jitterbug, a form of swing dance.

Answer 5

Jive

Question 6

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).

Answer 6

Juju

Question 7

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.

Answer 7

Kwassa Kwasaa

Question 8

s a South African three-chord
township music of the 1930s-1960s
which evolved into African Jazz.

Answer 8

Marabi

Question 9

Jamaican sound dominated by
bass guitar and drums

Answer 9

Reggae

Question 10

Cuban, Puerto Rican, and
Colombian dance music. It comprises various
musical genres including the Cuban son
montuno, guaracha, chachacha, mambo and
bolero

Answer 10

Salsa

Question 11

is the basic underlying rhythm that typifies most Brazilian
music. It is a lively and
rhythmical dance and music with three steps to every bar, making it a timed dance

Answer 11

Samba

Question 12

a modern Trinidadian and Tobago pop
music combining “soul” and “calypso” music.

Answer 12

Soca

Question 13

Muslim music performed often as a
wake-up call for early breakfast and prayers
during Ramadan
celebrations. Relying on pre-arranged music, it
fusesthe African and European music styles
with particular usage of the natural harmonic
series

Answer 13

Were

Question 14

fast, carnival-like hythmic music, from
the Creole slang word for ‘party,’ originating in
the Carribean Islands of Guadaloupe and
Martinique and popularized in the 1980’s.

Answer 14

ZOuk

Question 15

first surfaced in the African state of
Pernambuco,combining the strong rhythms of
African percussion
Instruments with
Portuguese melodies.

Answer 15

Maracatu

Question 16

Maracatu uses mostly percussion instruments (ATACMG)

Answer 16

Alafaia Drum
Tar ol
Agbe Sakere
Caixa
Miniero or Ganza
Gongue

Question 17

is a musical form of the late 19th
century that has had deep roots in AfricanAmerican communities. These communities are
located in the so-called “Deep South”
of the United States. The slaves and their
descendants used to sing as they worked in the
cotton and vegetable fields

Answer 17

Blues

Question 18

was a popular music genre of the
1950’s and 1960’s. It originated in the
United States. It combines elements of AfricanAmerican gospel music, rhythm and blues,
and often jazz.

Answer 18

Soul

Question 19

normally associated with a
deeply religious person, refers here to a
Negro spiritual, a song form by African
migrants to America who became enslaved by
its white communities.

Answer 19

Spiritual

Question 20

percussion instruments that are
either struck with a mallet or against
one another.

Answer 20

Idiophones

Question 21

It is a West
African xylophone.

Answer 21

Balafon

Question 22

are made of seashells, tin,
basketry, animal hoofs, horn, wood, metal bells,
cocoons, palm kernels, or tortoise shells.

Answer 22

Rattles

Question 23

It isa single bell or
multiple bells that had its origins in
traditional Yoruba music and also in the samba
baterias (percussion)
ensembles.

Answer 23

Agogo

Question 24

These are slit gongs used
to communicate between villages

Answer 24

Atingting Kon

Question 25

a hollow percussion instrument.

Answer 25

Slit drum

Question 26

(pronounced zhem-bay) is one of the best-known African drums is.

Answer 26

Djembe

Question 27

type of gourd and shell megaphone from West Africa, consisting of a dried gourd with beads woven into a net covering the gourd.

Answer 27

Shekere

Question 28

is a hand percussion instrument whose sound is produced by scraping the notches on a piece of wood

Answer 28

Rasp or scraper

Question 29

instruments which have vibrating animal membranes used in drums.

Answer 29

Membranophones

Question 30

Africans frequently use their bodies as musical instruments.

Answer 30

Body Percussion

Question 31

is used to send messages to Announce births, deaths, marriages, sporting events, dances, initiation, or war.

Answer 31

Talking Drum

Question 32

One of the most popular African percussion instruments a set of plucked tongues or keys mounted on a sound board. It is known by different names according to the regions such as mbira, karimba, kisaanj, and likembe.

Answer 32

Lamellaphone

Question 33

(aka hand piano or thumb piano) finger xylophone is of African origin and is used throughout the continent.

Answer 33

Mbira

Question 34

instruments which produce sounds from the vibration of strings. These include bows, harps, lutes, zithers, and lyres of various sizes

Answer 34

Chorodophones

Question 35

is the ancestor of all string instruments. It is the oldest and one of the most widely-used string instruments of Africa.

Answer 35

Musical bow

Question 36

originating from the Arabic states, is shaped like the modern guitar and played in similar fashion.

Answer 36

Lute

Question 37

Africa's most sophisticated harp, while also having features similar to a lute. Its body is made from a gourd or calabash.

Answer 37

Kora

Question 38

is a stringed instrument with varying sizes and shapes whose strings are stretched along its body

Answer 38

Zither

Question 39

an African fiddle played with a bow, a small wooden stick, or plucked with the fingers. It has one or two strings, made of steel or bicycle brake wire.

Answer 39

Zeze

Question 40

instruments which are produced initially by trapped vibrating air columns or which enclose a body of vibrating air

Answer 40

Aerophones

Question 41

widely used throughout Africa and either vertical or side-blown.

Answer 41

Flutes

Question 42

found almost everywhere in Africa, are commonly made from elephant tusks and animal horns.

Answer 42

Horns

Question 43

This is one type of horn made from the horn of the kudu antelope.

Answer 43

Kudu Horn

Question 44

There are single------ made from hollow guinea corn or sorghum stems

Answer 44

Reed pipes

Question 45

found throughout the continent may be made of wood or other materials

Answer 45

Whistles

Question 46

are made of wood, metal, animal horns, elephant tusks, and gourds with skins from snakes, zebras, leopards, crocodiles and animal hide as ornaments to the instrument.

Answer 46

Trumpets