A family of instruments, traditional to the Shona people of Zimbabwe, consisting of a wooden board with attached staggered metal tines.

A rope-tuned, skin-covered goblet drum played with bare hands, originally from West Africa.

A 21-stringed harp-lute

A common element in African music, where a leader sings or plays a phrase and the rest of the group responds with a similar phrase. This creates a sense of community and participation in the music and allows for improvisation and spontaneity within the melody.

A defining characteristic of African music, and refer to the use of multiple, interlocking rhythms in a single musical performance.

Have five notes per octave.

(A five note musical scale)

It is a term used to describe the fusion of West African with Black American music.

It is a popular musical genre from Salvador, Bahia, and Brazil. It fuses the Afro-Caribbean styles of marcha, reggae, and calypso.

It is a music style that begun in Zaire in the late 1980s popularized by Kanda Bongo Man.

It is one of the most widely performed musical forms of the late 19th century. The melodies of _ are expressive and soulful. The slaves and their descendants used to sing these as they work in the fields.

It is a popular music genre of the 1950s and 1960s which is originated in the African-American community throughout the United States. It combines the elements of African-American gospel music, rhythm and blues, and often jazz.

It is likened to a question-and-answer sequence in human communication.

It is the ancestor of all string instruments consists of a single string attached to each end of a curved stick, similar to a bow and arrow.