Music and Arts

Is a term used to describe the fusion of West African with Black American Music.

• Apala

• Afrobeat

• Jit

• Jive

Used to wake up the worshippers after fasting during the Muslim holy feast of Ramadan.

• Apala

• Afrobeat

• Jit

• Jive

Is a popular musical genre from Salvador, Bahia and Brazil. It fuses the Afro-Carribean styles of marcha, reggae, and calypso, and is played by carnival bands

• Jit

• Jive

• Axe

• Afrobeat

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

• Apala

• Afrobeat

• Jive

• Jit

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

• Apala

• Afrobeat

• Jive

• Jit

Is a popular music style from Nigeria that relies on the traditional Yoruba rhythms.

• Jit

• Juju

• Jive

• Afrobeat

First surfaced in the African state of Pernambuco, combining the strong rhythms of African percussion instruments with Portuguese melodies.

• Blue

• Zeke

• Maracatu

• Soul

Is a method where two distinct musical phrases usually rendered by different musicians, where the second phrase acts as a direct commentary on or response to the first.

• Call and Answer

• Call and Reject

• Call and Reponse

• Call and Reply

These are percussion instruments that are either struck with a mallet or against one another.

• Membranophones

• Idiophones

• Lamellaphone

• Chordophone

Instruments that are usually drums, which have vibrating animal membranes.

• Idiophones

• Membranophones

• Chordophones

• Lamellophones