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African Music (Some Types)

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 4mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

It is a fusion of West African with black American music.

a)

AFROBEAT

b)

JIT

c)

JUJU

d)

MARABI

2.

A musical genre from Nigeria Yoruba in the tribal style to wake up the worshippers after fasting during the Muslim holy feast of Ramadan.

a)

APALA

b)

JIVE

c)

KWASSA-KWASSA

d)

AXE

3.

It fuses the Afro-Caribbean styles of the marcha, reggae, and calypso. 

a)

AXE

b)

JIT

c)

JUJU

d)

MARABI

4.

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

a)

JIT

b)

JUJU

c)

APALA

d)

AFROBEAT

5.

A lively and uninhibited variation of the jitterbug,  a form of swing dance.

a)

JIVE

b)

KWASSA-KWASSA

c)

MARABI

d)

JIT

6.

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).

a)

JUJU

b)

JIVE

c)

JIT

d)

AXE

7.

In this dance style, the hips move back and forth while the arms move following the hips.

a)

KWASSA KWASSA

b)

JIVE

c)

MARABI

d)

AFROBEAT

8.

South African three-chord township music of the 1930s-1960s which evolved into African Jazz. 

a)

MARABI

b)

AFROBEAT

c)

AXE

d)

APALA

9.

It is a dance style begun in Zaire in the late 1980’s, popularized by Kanda Bongo Man.

a)

KWASSA KWASSA

b)

JIVE

c)

MARABI

d)

AFROBEAT

10.

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.

a)

MARABI

b)

AFROBEAT

c)

AXE

d)

APALA