2nd Quarter Music

It is the genre of African Music that fuses the Afro-Caribbean styles of the marcha, reggae and calypso.

• Apala

• Axe

• Jit

• Jive

The dance style for this particular genre of music is to move the hips back

and forth while the arms move following the hips.

• Apala

• Juju

• Kwassa-kwassa

• Marabi

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

• African Jazz

• African Jive

• Reggae

• Samba

It is a vocal form of African music which combines strong rhythms of African percussion instruments and Portuguese melodies.

• Blues

• Maracatu

• Soul

• Spiritual

This form of music combines elements of African-American gospel music, rhythm and blues and jazz.

• Blues

• Maracatu

• Soul

• Spiritual

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

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

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

____ 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).

What are the vocal forms of African music? Example: Call and Response. (No points for this question. Hehe!)

Answer explanation

Clues:

It is the combination of strong rhythms of African percussion instruments and Portuguese melodies.

It is one of the most widely performed musical forms of the late 19th century. The melodies of blues are expressive and soulful.

It combines elements of African-American gospel music, rhythm and blues, and often jazz.

It became a means of imparting Christian values and a way of venting their hardships as slaves.

It is likened to a question-and-answer sequence in human communication.