MUSIC

Music has always been an important part in their daily lives whether for work, religion, ceremonies, or even communication.

• music of zimbabwe

• music of africa

• music of latin american

• music of brazil

African traditional music is largely functional in nature, used primarily in ceremonial rites, such as

• death, birth, ramadan, marriage, worshiping,

• birth, death, birthday, weddings, succession

• birth, death, marriage, succession, worship, and spirit invocations.

• birth, death, worship, war, birthday

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

• Afrobeat

• Axe

• Jit

• Apala

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.

• Juju

• Marabu

• Apala

• Jit

is a popular musical genre from Salvador Bahia, and Brazil.

It fuses the Afro-Caribbean styles of the marcha, reggae, and calypso.

• Apala

• Jit

• Axe

• Afrobeat

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

• kwassa kwassa

• Apala

• Jit

• Jive

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

• Apala

• Marabi

• Jit

• Jive

is a popular music style from Nigeria that relies on the traditional Yoruba rhythms, where the instruments in   Juju are more Western in origin.

• kwassa kwassa

• Juju

• Axe

• Jit

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.

• Marabi

• Juju

• Jit

• Kwassa Kwassa

is a South African three-chord township music of the 1930s-1960s which evolved into African Jazz.

• Juju

• Kwassa Kwassa

• Marabi

• Jit