AFRICAN MUSIC REVIEW

It is a term used to describe the fusion of West African with Black American music.

• AFROBEAT

• APALA

• AXE

It 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

• APALA

• AXE

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

• AFROBEAT

• APALA

• AXE

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

• JUJU

• JIVE

• JIT

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

• JUJU

• JIVE

• JIT

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

• JUJU

• JIVE

• JIT

It is a music style that 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.

• MARABI

• KWASSA KWASSA

• JIT

It is a South African three-chord township music of the 1930s-1960s which evolved into African Jazz. It is characterized by simple chords in varying vamping patterns and repetitive harmony over an extended period of time.

• MARABI

• KWASSA KWASSA

• JIT