MAPEH MUSIC

• Given the vastness of the African continent, it's music is diverse, with regions and nations having many distinct musical traditions. Answer: music of Africa
• Afro Beat. Combination of west African music style with American funk, jazz, and soul influences, with a ficus on chanted vocals.
• Apala. Originally by the Yoruba people of Nigeria during the history as the colony of British empire. Typically pitched up vocals sung in the Yoruba language
• Axe. It is a fusing different afro Caribbean genres like marcha, reggae and calypso. Known as ase literally means soul, light, spirit or good vibrations
• Jit- Also known as jiti or jit jive and the Harare beat. A popular Zimbabwean dance music. It features swift rhythms played on drums and guitar.
• Jive. It is originated in the US from Afrycan Amerucans in the early 1930s. It is a form of Afrucab American slang, popularized in 1930s by the publication of a dictionary Cab Calloway.

  Often group with Latun inspired ballroom dances, the roots are based on swing dancing
• Juju. Meaning throwing or something being thrown.
• Kwassa-kwassa. Created by Jeanora, it is where the hips moved back back forth while hands move to follow the hips.
• Marabi. A name given to a keyboard style (often using cheap pedal organs) that had a musical link to American Jazz, ragtime and blues.
• Reggae. A strong accented subsidiary beat originating in Jamaica. Widely Widely in 1970s through the work of Bob Marley.
• Salsa. A set of Afro Caribbean rhythms fused with jazz and other styles. Originated in Cuba where rhythms from the two main existing styles of music in the region were combined to create a new dance.
• Samba. Type of popular music with roots in afro Brazilian traditions. It is distinct for its characteristics, rhythmic pattern, emphasis on melody, relatively simple harmony, use of Aftycan percussion and Portugese language lyrics.
• SOCA. literally means the Soul of Calypso and represents a fusion of African and Caribbean kaiso
• Were. Using music to arouse the Islamic faithful to pray and feast during Ramadan festival. It is a Muslim music often performed as a wake up call for early breakfast and prayers during Ramadan celebrations.
• Zouk. Associated mainly with the Caribbean Islands of Guadalupe and Martinique. It is characterized by frequent use of French Antillean Creole language. Means To party .
• Name the 14 music of Africa

  Afro beat, apala, axe, jit, jive, juju,kwassa kwassa, marabi, reggae, salsa, samba, were,soca,zouk.
• Maracatu. First surfaced in the African tate combining the strong rhythms of Aftican percussion instruments with Portuguese melodies
• The group is called macoes (nations) who paraded a drumming consumable numbering up to 100
• Affaia Drum. A large wooden drum that is roped tuned and complemented by the tarot.
• Tarol. A shallow snare drum
• Caixa-de Guerra. A wire like snare
• Gongue. A metal cowbell that provides the clanging sound in the maracatu
• Agbe. A gourd shaker covered covered beads.
• Ganza. A metal cylindrical shaker filled with metal shots or small dried seeds .
• What are the six musical instruments used in maracatu?

  Affair drum, tarol, Caixa de Guerra, Gongue, Agbe, Ganza
• Blues. A musical form of the late 19th century that had deep roots in African American communities. Itbcreates a exoressive and soulful sound. The feelings that are normally associated with misfortune, lost love, frustration and lonliness.
• Soul. It originated in the U.S. The catchy rhythms are accomplished by hand claps and extemporaneous body features.
• James Brown. He is the God father of soul.
• Sam cooks and Jackie Wilson. The soul forefathers .
• Spiritual. It refers to a song form, known as Negro Spiritual. This musical This musical became their outlet to express their loneliness and anger towards the American people.
• Call and response. It us a succession of two distinct musical phrases usually rendered by different musicians, where the second phrase acts as a direct commentary. A interaction between the audience and performer. They have to mirror mirror you said.
• African music includes all the major instrumental genres of western music, including strings, winds, and percussions, along with a tremendous variety of specific African music for solo or for ensemble playing.
• Idiophones are percussion instruments that are either struck with a mallet or against one another.
• The balafon is a West African xylophone, a pitched percussion instrument with bars made from logs or bamboo.
• Rattles are made from seashells, tin, basketry, animal hoofs, horns, wood, metal bells, palm kernels, cocoons and tortoise shells.
• The agogo is a single or multiple bell that had its origin on the traditional Yoruba music and also in the samba bateria (percussion) ensembles.
• Atingting kon are slit gongs used to communicate between villages, the sound it makes, in some cases, reaches miles through the forest and even across water to neighbouring islands.
• The slit drum is a hollow percussion instrument, known as a drum, but it is an idiophone.
• The West African djembe is one of the best-known African drums, it is shaped like a goblet and is played with bare hands or with a stick or both.
• Shekere is a type of gourd and shell megaphone from West Africa, consisting of dried gourd with beads woven into a net that covers the gourd.