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African Music

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

It is a rich and diverse cultural heritage that exists in hundreds of different languages.

a)

Music of Africa

b)

Afrobeat

c)

Apala

d)

Juju

2.

It is described as the fusion of west African and Black American music.

a)

Music of Africa

b)

Afrobeat

c)

Apala

d)

Juju

3.

It is used to wake up the worshipper after fasting during the Muslim holy feast of Ramadan.

a)

Music of Africa

b)

Afrobeat

c)

Apala

d)

Juju

4.

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

a)

Marabi

b)

Axe

c)

Jit

d)

Zouk

5.

It is a hard and fast percussive Zimbabwean dance music played on drums with guitar accompaniment.

a)

Marabi

b)

Axe

c)

Jit

d)

Zouk

6.

This dance style began in Zaire in the late 1980s and was popularized by Kanda Bongo Man.

a)

Apala

b)

Juju

c)

Dun-dun

d)

Kwassa-Kwassa

7.

This refers to the South African three-chord township music of the 1930s-1960s which evolved into African jazz.

a)

Marabi

b)

Axe

c)

Jit

d)

Zouk

8.

It is a popular form of South African music featuring a lively and uninhabited variation of the jitterbug.

a)

Dun-dun

b)

Kwassa-Kwassa

c)

Jibe

d)

Marabi

9.

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

a)

Music of Africa

b)

Afrobeat

c)

Apala

d)

Juju

10.

It is known as the "talking drum or squeeze drum."

a)

Marabi

b)

Axe

c)

Jit

d)

Zouk