Mapeh Review

A traditional music is largely functional in nature, used primarily in ceremonial rites, such as birth, death, marriage, succession, worship, and spirit invocations. Others are work related or social in nature, while many traditional societies view their music as entertainment.

• African Music

• Filipino Music

• Latin Music

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

• Juju

• Alpala

• Afrobeat

is a musical genre from Nigeria in the Yoruba tribal style, used to wake up the worshippers after fasting during the Muslim holy feast of Ramadan. Percussion instrumentation includes the rattle (sekere), thumb piano (agidigbo), bell (agogo), and two or three talking drums.

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• Alpala

• Axe

• Jive

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

• Juju

• Jiit

• Axe

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

• Alpala

• Jit

• Jive

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

• Jive

• Cha Cha

• Rhumba

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

• Jive

• Jit

• Juju

is a dance style begun in Zaire in the late 1980s, popularized by Kanda Bongo Man. In this dance style, the hips move back and forth while the arms follow the hip movements

• Marabi

• Kwassa Kwassa

• Reggae

is a South African three-chordo wnship music of the 1930-1960s which evolved into African jazz. It makes use of a keyboard style that combines American jazz, ragtime, and blues with African roots. It is characterized by simple chords in varying vamping patterns and repetitive harmony over an extended period of time to allow the dancers more time on the dance floor

• Reggae

• Marabi

• Samba

is a Jamaican musical style that was strongly fluenced by the island's traditional mento music, as well as by calypso, African music, American jazz, and theythan and blues, One of reggae's most distinctive qualities is its offbeat rhythm and staccato chords.

• Samba

• Jive

• Reggae