LONGTEST IN MUSIC (2NDQUARTER)

This is a popular form of South African music featuring a lively and uninhibited variation of jitterbug.

• Afrobeat

• Jive

• Kwasa Kwasa

• Axe

This 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.

• Afrobeat

• Akpala

• Kwasa Kwasa

• Jit

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

• Afrobeat

• Akpala

• Kwasa Kwasa

• Jit

This 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.

• Afrobeat

• Akpala

• Kwasa Kwasa

• Jit

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

• Afrobeat

• Akpala

• Kwasa Kwasa

• Jit

Check at least THREE (3) Latin-American music influenced by African music

• Samba

• Maracatu

• Were

• Zouk

• Soul

Check at least TWO (2) Vocal forms of African music

• Salsa

• Reggae

• Spiritual

• Soca

• Call and Response