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WorksheetsAfro-Latin American Music
Total questions: 60
Worksheet time: 30mins
Which of the following describes the coronation of the black king who would speak on behalf of the slaves?
Maracatu
Timbuctu
Call and Response
All of the above
A Latin American double headed drum instrument made of a hallow tree trunk with patches made up of animal skin.
Bombo
Cajom
Chajchas
Quena
It is a melancholic Afro-American music or vocal form typically composed of a twelve-bar sequence.
Soul
Spiritual
Call and Response
Blues
This is a vibrant and playful dance between two people having a very rich potential for expression, improvisation, and connection and is danced in both modern and traditional styles.
Cumbia
Cha Cha
Tango
Reggae
It is a ballroom dance in 4/4 time signature, with alteration of two slow and two quick steps.
Foxtrot
Cha Cha
Rumba
Paso Doble
These are shakers traditionally made of gourd with beans, seeds, or small pebbles inside and played by shaking it.
Chajchas
Maracas
Zamponas
Claves
It is a traditional vocal and couple's dance from Spain and is danced to the type of music typically played in bullfights.
Foxtrot
Cha Cha
Rumba
Paso Doble
It is a kind of music incorporating elements of rhythm and blues and gospel music, popularized by African-Americans.
Soul
Spiritual
Call and Response
Blues
It is a type of vocal and dance with fast rhythmic ballroom dance of Latin American origin with a basic pattern of three steps and a shuffle.
Foxtrot
Cha Cha
Rumba
Paso Doble
It is a type of vocal and dance music of Latin America with Colombian origin, similar to salsa and uses guitars, accordions, bass guitar, and percussion.
Cumbia
Cha Cha
Rumba
Paso Doble
Afro-Latin American music is characterized by soft beat.
True
False
Call and Response is a succession of two distinct phrases usually played by different musicians.
True
False
Charango is a small ten-stringed guitar, traditionally made from armadillo shell and is one of the primary instruments used in Latin American music performance.
True
False
Rumba is a style of popular music with a strongly accented subsidiary beat, originating from Jamaica. It evolved in the late 1960s from ska and other local variations on calypso and rhythm and blues, and became widely known in the 1970s through the work of Bob Marley.
True
False
Cha Cha is a rhythmic dance with Spanish and African elements originated in Cuba.
True
False
It is the ghenre of African music that fuses the Afro-Caribbean styles of the marcha, reggae and calypso.
a. apala
b. axe
c. jit
d. jive
What country where Chacha originated?
a. Columbia
b. Cuba
c. China
d. Congo
What is the most expressive dance in Latin America?
a. Reggae
b. Cha cha
c. Tango
d. Rumba
It is best known proponent who hails in Jamaica where Bob Marleyknown.
a. Rumba
b. Cha cha
c. Tango
d. Reggae
She hails as the Queen of Bossa nova in the Philippines.
a. Rachel Ann Go
b. Charice Pempengco
c. Sarah Geronimo
d. Sitti Navarro
The English term of this dance is double step.
a. Paso Doble
b. Paso Redoba
c. Paso Relletos
d. Paso Beto
What is the dominant language in Latin America?
a. English
b. French
c. Portuguese
d. Spanish
It is a Social dance with marked influence from Cuba and Puerto Rico.
a. Samba
b. Salsa
c. Son
d. Shekere
Which of the following instruments is not a membranophone?
a. Body percussion
b. Fulani
c. Djembe
d. Talking drum
Which of the following is not belong with Latin American dance?
a. Cha cha
b. Jive
c. Samba
d. Tango
This term used to describe the fusion of West African with black American Music. What is this type of Afro-Latin music?
Afrobeat
Apala
Axe
Samba
Agogo is an instrument from Apala, a musical genre from Nigeria in the Yoruba tribal style to wake up the worshippers after fasting during the Muslim holy feast of Ramadan. What type of musical instrument is an Agogo?
Wind Instrument
String Instrument
Percussion Instrument
None of the above
Shekere is also an instrument from the musical genre, Apala. Shekere is a wind instrument.
TRUE
FALSE
Which of the 6 Afro-Latin music is a popular form of South African Music featuring a lively and uninhibited variation of the jitterbug, a form of swing dance?
Samba
Reggae
Jive
Jinx
Salsa is an example of Afro-Cuban music.
TRUE
FALSE
How influential is music to our culture?
(5 points)
The phrase "Afro-Latino" refers to which group of people?
People of Black ancestry, living in Latin America
People who moved from Africa to Cuba in the past 10 years
People who moved from Latin America to Africa
People of Black ancestry who were from the U.S. but now live in Mexico
When someone talks about their ancestor they are talking about their...
family member from the past
family friend
family's ethnicity
family's culture
When someone says, "I am a descendant of my great grandma," what do they mean?
They are not blood related to their great grandma
They are directly related to their great grandma
Their great grandma was adopted
They were adopted into the family
The Spanish colonized regions such as South America and the Caribbean.
What does the word colonized mean?
To make treaties with the native populations
To send people to a new place and take political control
To create a new religion
To destroy land
Samba, Rumba, Salsa, and Bachata are all examples of what in Latin America?
Religions
Languages
Music
Culture
Many Latin American rulers tried to segregate Afro-Latino music from popular music. However, many styles of music actually integrated the two cultures.
What does integrate mean?
To keep apart
To separate
To bring together
To divide
The demographics of Latin America vary with many people identifying as Spanish and Indigenous heritage.
What does the word demographics mean based on this sentence?
Populations
Languages
Religions
Cultures
African ceremonies, singing, dancing, clapping, and beating of drums have essential roles even in religious expressions and political events.
TRUE
FALSE
Pop music is generally comprised of music for entertainment of large number of audience, whether on radio or in live performances.
TRUE
FALSE
Popular music literally means famous music around the world.
TRUE
FALSE
Music has always play an important role in the daily lives of Africans. It can be for work, religion, ceremonies, or even communication.
TRUE
FALSE
The Latin American music is the product of three major influences of indigenous Spanish, Portuguese and America.
TRUE
FALSE
African music is a result of the collective cultural and musical variety of more than 50 ethnic divisions of the continent.
TRUE
FALSE
Before the arrival of the Spanish, Portuguese, and other European colonizers, the natives were found to be using local drums and percussion instruments.
TRUE
FALSE
Popular music is mainly influenced by America.
TRUE
FALSE
For the African ceremonies, singing, dancing, clapping, and beating of drums have essential roles even in religious expressions and political events.
TRUE
FALSE
The wide influence of African music spread throughout the world. It permeated contemporary American, Latin American, and European styles.
TRUE
FALSE
A vocal form of African music, that is like the question and answer sequence in human communication.
Maracatu
Call and Response
Spiritual
Soul
The most popular performer of all time and known to be "The King of Pop" .
Elvis Presley
Elton John
Michael Jackson
Stevie Wonder
It is a Jamaican musical style that was strongly influence by the Island's traditional mento music.
Zouk
Salsa
Reggae
Were
A vocal form of African music, that is like the question and answer sequence in human communication.
Maracatu
Call and Response
Spiritual
Soul
The following are the popular Latin American music except for _______.
Samba
Son
Salsa
Jive
The most popular performer of all time and known to be "The King of Pop" .
Elvis Presley
Elton John
Michael Jackson
Stevie Wonder
The ______ family pioneered Latin jazz in Manila.
De Los Santos
Katindig
Legaspi
Mansueta
This new form combined ethnic instrumentation with electronic accompaniment, while presenting themes or issues of Philippine society and the environment.
Philippine Pop Music
Philippine Rock
Philippine Jazz
Philippine Alternative Folk Music
He is known in his song "Mga Kababayan".
Francis Magalona
Andrew E.
Gloc 9
The term used to describe the fusion of West African with Black American music
Apala
Axe
Afrobeat
Jit
Latin America music styles are the product of three major influence.
Choose three answers.
Australian
African
Indigenous
European
A classification of traditional African instrument, which produce sounds from the vibration of strings.
Membranophones
Chordophones
Membranophones
Idiophones
