WorksheetsAfrican Music (Some Types)
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 4mins
It is a fusion of West African with black American music.
AFROBEAT
JIT
JUJU
MARABI
A musical genre from Nigeria Yoruba in the tribal style to wake up the worshippers after fasting during the Muslim holy feast of Ramadan.
APALA
JIVE
KWASSA-KWASSA
AXE
It fuses the Afro-Caribbean styles of the marcha, reggae, and calypso.
AXE
JIT
JUJU
MARABI
A hard and fast percussive Zimbabwean dance music played on drums with guitar accompaniment influenced by mbira-based guitar styles.
JIT
JUJU
APALA
AFROBEAT
A lively and uninhibited variation of the jitterbug, a form of swing dance.
JIVE
KWASSA-KWASSA
MARABI
JIT
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).
JUJU
JIVE
JIT
AXE
In this dance style, the hips move back and forth while the arms move following the hips.
KWASSA KWASSA
JIVE
MARABI
AFROBEAT
South African three-chord township music of the 1930s-1960s which evolved into African Jazz.
MARABI
AFROBEAT
AXE
APALA
It is a dance style begun in Zaire in the late 1980’s, popularized by Kanda Bongo Man.
KWASSA KWASSA
JIVE
MARABI
AFROBEAT
Possessing a keyboard style combining American jazz, ragtime, and blues with African roots, it is characterized by simple chords in varying vamping patterns and repetitive harmony.
MARABI
AFROBEAT
AXE
APALA
