Afro-Latin American and Popular Music

• 1. Music has always been an important part in the daily life of African.
  2. Music and dance are also important to religious expression and political events.
  3. African traditional music is largely functional in nature, used primarily in ceremonial rites, such as birth, death, marriage, succession, worship, and spirit invocations.
• 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 Yoruba tribal style to wake up the worshippers after fasting during the Muslim holy feast of Ramadan.
• Axe is a popular musical genre from Salvador, Bahia, and Brazil that fuses the Afro-Caribbean style of the marcha, reggae and calypso.
• 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 jitterbug, a form of swing dance.
• Juju is a popular music style from Nigeria that relies on the traditional Yoruba rhythm.
• Kwassa Kwassa is a dance style begun in Zaire in late 1980's popularized by Kanda Bongo man.
• Marabi is a south african three - chord township music of the 1930's - 1960's which evolved into African Jazz.
• Shekere/Sekere is the rattle.
• Agogo Bell (Two or Three Talking Drums) is a percussion instrument.
• Agidigbo - Thumb Piano
• Reggae - a Jamaican sound dominated by bass guitar and drums.
• Salsa - music is Cuban, Puerto Rican, and Colombian dance music.
• Salsa comprises various musical genres including the Cuban son montuno, guaracha, chachacha, mambo and bolero.
• Samba - is the basic underlying rhythm that typifies most Brazilian music.
• Soca - modern Trinidadian and Tobago pop music combining "soul" and "calypso" music.
• Were - a muslim music performed often as a wake-up call early breakfast and prayers during Ramadan celebrations.
• Zouk - a fast, carnival - like rhythmic music, from Creole slang word "party".
• Maracatu is the first surfaced African state of Pernambuco, combining the strong rhythms of African percussion instruments with Portuguese melodies.
• The maracatu groups were called "nacoes" (nations) who paraded with drumming ensemble numbering up to 100, accompanied by a singer, chorus, and a coterie of dancers.
• Soul music was a popular music genre of the 1950's and 1960's.
• Soul music originated in the United States.
• Soul music combines elements of African-American gospel music, rhythm and blues, and often jazz.
• The catchy rhythms of soul music are accompanied by handclaps and extemporaneous body moves which are among its important features.
• 1. Brown was known as the "Godfather of Soul".
• Sam Cookie and Jackie Wilson are acknowledged as "Soul forefathers"
• The term spiritual, normally associated with a deeply religious person, refers to a Negro Spiritual, a song form by African migrants to America who became enslaved by its white communities.

  The texts are mainly religious, sometimes taken from psalms of Biblical Passages. The Vocal infections, Negro accents, and dramatic dynamic changes add to the musical interest and effectiveness of the performance.