MUSIC

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their music is an important part of their daily lives. Singing, dancing, hand clapping and beating drums are essential to ceremonies. it is a collective result of cultural musical diversity or more than 50 countries in the continent.

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Music of AFRICA

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is highly functional in nature, used primarily in ceremonial rites, such as birth, death, marriage, and succession, worship, and spirit invocations

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African traditional music

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

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Afrobeat

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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

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Apala (AKPALA)

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it fuses the afro Caribbean styles of marcha, reggae, and calypso

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axe

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

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Jit

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

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Jive

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is a popular music style from Nigeria. A drum kit, keyboard, pedal steel guitar, and accordion are used along with the traditional dun-dun (talking drum or squeeze drum.

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juju

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is a dance style begun in Zaire in the late 1980’s, popularized by Kanda Bongo Man where hips move back and forth while the hands move to follow the hips

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Kwassa Kwassa

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Is a south African three-chord township music of the 1930s-1960s

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Marabi

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Jamaican sound dominated by bass guitar and drums. It refers to a particular music style that was strongly influenced by traditional mento and calypso music, as well as American jazz, and rhythm and blues.

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Reggae

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It composes various musical genres including the Cuban son montuno, guaracha, chachacha, mambo and bolero

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Salsa

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Is a modern Trinidad and Tobago pop music combining “soul” and “calypso” music

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Soca

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s a way of using music to arouse the Islamic faithful to pray and feast during Ramadan festival in Yorubaland

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Yoruba : Were

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It has a pulsating beat supplied by the gwo ka and tambour bele drums, a tibwa rhythmic pattern played on the rim of the snare drum and its hi-hat, rhythm guitar, a horn section, and keyboard synthesizers

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Zouk

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uses mostly percussion instruments such as the alfaia, tarol and calxa-de-guerra, agbe and miniero. [vocal forms]

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MARACATU (“nacoes” means nation)

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is expressed in songs whose verses lament injustice
or express longing for a better life and lost loves, jobs, and money. But is also a raucous dance music that celebrates pleasure and success [vocal forms]

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BLUES

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It combines elements of African-American gospel music, rhythm and blues and jazz. [vocal forms]

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Soul

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Godfather of Soul

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James Brown

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is a succession of two distinct musical phrases usually rendered by different musicians, where the second phrase acts as a direct commentary on or response to the first [vocal forms]

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CALL AND RESPONSE

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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. [vocal forms]

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SPIRITUAL

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is a West African xylophone. It is a pitched percussion instrument with bars made from logs or bamboo. [idiophones]

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BALAFON

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are made of seashells, tin, basketry, animal hoofs, horn, woods, metal
bells, cocoons, palm kernels, or tortoise shells. [idiophones]

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RATTLES

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is a single bell or multiple bells that had its origins in traditional Yoruba music and also in the samba baterias (percussion) ensembles [idiophones]

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Agogo

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Are slit gongs used to communicate between villages. they were carved out of wood to resemble ancestors had a "slit opening" at the bottom. [idiophones]

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atingting kon

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is a hollow percussion instrument. although known as drum, it is not a true drum but is an idiophone. [idiophones]

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Slit-drum

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Is one of the best-known African drums is. It is shaped like a large goblet and played with bare hands. The body is carved from a hollowed trunk and is covered in goat skin [idiophones]

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Djembe

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Is a type of gourd and shell megaphone from West Africa, Consisting of a dried gourd with beads woven into a net covering the gourd. [idiophones]

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Shekere

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Is a hand percussion instrument whose sound is produced by scraping the notches on a piece of wood (sometimes elaborately carved) with a stick creating a series of rattling sounds [idiophones]

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Rasp

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Africans frequently use their bodies as musical instruments [membranophones]

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body percussion

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is used to send messages to announce births, deaths, marriages, sporting events, dances, initiation, or war. sometimes it may also contain gossips or jokes. [membranophones]

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Talking drum

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The thumb piano or finger xylophone is of African origin and is used throughout the continent. [lamellaphone]

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Mbira

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is the ancestor of all string instruments. it is the oldest and one of the most widely-used string instruments of Africa. [chordophones]

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Musical blow

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

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Lute

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is Africa's sophisticated harp, while also having similar features to lute. [chordophones]

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Kora

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

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Zither

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is an African fiddle played with a bow, a small wooden stick, or plucked with the fingers [chordophones]

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zeze

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are widely used throughout Africa and either vertical or side-blown [aerophone]

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Flute

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Are commonly made from elephant tusks and animal horns. [aerophone]

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Horns

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are single-reed pipes made from hollow guinea corn or sorghum sterns, where the reed is a flap partially cut from the stern near the one end. [aerophone]

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Red pipes

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are found throughout the continent may be made of wood or other materials. [aerophone]

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whistles

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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. [aerophone]

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trumpets

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-indigenous Latin-American music -Native American/Indian Music -Euro-Latin American Music -Afro-Latin American Music -Mixed American Music -Popular Latin American Music

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Influences of Latin American Music

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Is a dance form of african origins around 1838 which evolved into an african-brazillian invention in the working class and slum districts of rio de janeiro

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Samba

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Is a fusion of the popular music or canciones (songs) of spain and the african rumba rhythms of bantu origin

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son

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Is a social dance with marked influences from Cuba and puerto rico that started in New York in the mid 1970's

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Salsa

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originating in panama and colombia became a popular african courtship dance with European and african instrumentation and characteristics.

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Cumbia

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it is "a foremost Argentinian and uruguayan urban popular song and dance" that is related to the cuban contradanza, habanera, and Cuban ____, and "remains a 20th century nationalistic argentinian piece of music that is most expressive."

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Tango

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is a ballroom dance that originated in Cuba in 1953, derived from the mambo and its characteristic rhythm of 2 crochet - 3 quavers - quaver rest, with a synocopation on the fourth beat

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Cha Cha

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Popular recreational dance of Afro-Cuban origin, performed in a complex duple meter pattern and tresillo, which is a dotted quaver - dotted quaver- dotted semiquaver rhythm

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Rumba

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comes from the brazillian capital of Rio De Janeiro, which means either "trend" or "something charming" integrating melody, harmony, and rhythm into a swaying feel, where the vocal style is often nasal.

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Bosa Nova

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is an urban popular music and dance style that is originated in Jamaica in the mid 1960's

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Reggae

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is a 20th century social dance that originated after 1910 in the USA

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foxtrot

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is a theatrical Spanish dance used by the spaniards in bullfights, where the music was played as the matador enters [paseo] and during passes just before the kill [faena]

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Paso Doble

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Tlapitzalli, Teponaztli, Conch, Rasp, Mariachi, Huehueti, Whistles,

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Musical instruments of Latin America

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-Ocarina -Panpipes

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Incan instruments

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-Pitus -Wooden Tarkas -Quenas -Charango

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Andean Instruments

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Is a conventional category that identifies some pieces of musics as belonging to a shared tradition or set of conventions.

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Music Genre

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literally means "music of populace" similar traditional folk to music of the past

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Popular music or POP

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King of Pop

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Michael Joseph Jackson

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Originated as "rock n Roll" n the united states. it has been rocking the world since the 1950. "Its loud and strong beats make it popular among the youths"

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Rock Music

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identified with swing and blue notes, it has it roots both in the west african and european culture it is said that it is "one of the america's Original art forms" and boasts a unique combination of creativity, coactions and interactivity.

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Jazz

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The genre features heavy bass and drum beats that early singers used to perform ballads with social and political commentary

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Reggae

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It defines the modern version of the soul and funk influenced african american pop music that originated with the demise of disco in 1980

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R&B or rhythms and blues

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Developed by disc jokeys and urban blacks in the late 1970's in which an insistent, recurring beat pattern provides the background and counterpoint for rapid, stangy, and often with traditional acoustic instrumentation and simple melody.

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Rap

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A down-to-earth style focusing on universal truths, often with traditional acoustic instrumentation and a simple melody

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Folk- Music

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Now refers to love song in a slightly pop or rock system

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ballad

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is a genre of Christian music

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gospel