AFRICAN MUSIC STYLES

Musical style developed in the late 1930 from Nigerian people of Yoruba. This style was used during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan to wake the worshippers after fasting.

• JIVE

• APALA

• AXE

A style of music fused with Afro-Carribean styles of Marcha, Reggae, and Calypso. This word came from Yoruba religious greetings which means soul, light, spirit, or good vibration. 

• JIVE

• APALA

• AXE

Lively and uninhibited variation of the Jitterbug (a form of Swing dance) which was originated in the United States in the early 1930s from African-Americans. 

• JIVE

• APALA

• AXE

Is a popular style of Zimbabwean dance music that features quick and fast rhythm played on drums and accompanied by a guitar. 1t was popularized by Chazezesa Challengers, The Four Brothers, and Bhundu Boys band in the 1980s. 

• JIVE

• JUJU

• JIT

Name given to a keyboard style similar to American ragtime and blues with roots of African tradition originated in the 1920s. It is characterized by repeated harmonic patterns and a few simple chords in different improvised patterns to let the people dance for an extended period of time. 

• MARABI

• JUJU

• KWASSA-KWASSA

It is a dance style which begun in Zaire and developed by Kanda Bongo Man in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It is a dance rhythm from Congo, where the dancers move their hands in a motion that corresponds to the movement of their hips.

• MARABI

• JUJU

• KWASSA-KWASSA

It is a popular style of music from Nigeria that derives from traditional Yoruba percussion. It is characterized by the use of the African talking drums, agogo, sekere, bata, omelet along with other western instruments such as the guitars, bass, keyboards, and drums that can be performed in any occasion, events, and concerts. 

• MARABI

• JUJU

• KWASSA-KWASSA

West African musical styles such as Yoruba music, jazz, highlife, funk rhythms, and fused with African percussion and vocal styles. It features chants, call-and-response vocals, and complex rhythms.  

• AFROBEAT

• AXE

• KWASSA-KWASSA

It is a partner dance which began in Brazil during the early 1990s.

• DUN-DUN

• ZOUK

• KWASSA-KWASSA

It has technique called "Call and Response".

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