The Music of Africa

The fusion of West African with black American music.

• Afrobeat

• Apala

• Axe

• Jit

Vocal forms of African music and Latin American music played an important role in the development of popular music.

• True

• False

Percussion instruments were the least used musical instrument in Afro-latin American music.

• True

• False

A person leads by singing a phrase and followed and answered by a group of singers

• Maracatu

• Blues

• Spiritual

• Call and Response

Is the combination of strong rhythms of Africa percussion instruments and Portuguese melodies.

• Soul

• Spiritual

• Maracatu

• Call and Response

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

• Jit

Popular musical genre from Salvador, Bahia and Brazil. It fuses the Afro-Carribean styles of the marcha, reggae and calypso.

• Afrobeat

• Apala

• Axe

• Jit

Is a dance style begun in Zaire.

• Jive

• Kwassa-kwassa

• Jit

• Juju

Popular style from Nigeria that relies on the traditional Yoruba rhythms.

• Jive

• Kwassa-kwassa

• Juju

• Jit

Characteristics of African Music EXCEPT one.

• Improvisation

• The voice as an Instrument

• The instrument as a Voice

• Least used of percussion instruments