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2nd Quarter Music

Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

It is the genre of African Music that fuses the Afro-Caribbean styles of the marcha, reggae and calypso.

a)

Apala

b)

Axe

c)

Jit

d)

Jive

2.

The dance style for this particular genre of music is to move the hips back

and forth while the arms move following the hips.

a)

Apala

b)

Juju

c)

Kwassa-kwassa

d)

Marabi

3.

Marabi is a South African three-chord township music of the 1930s-1960s which evolved into _______ .

a)

African Jazz

b)

African Jive

c)

Reggae

d)

Samba

4.

It is a vocal form of African music which combines strong rhythms of African percussion instruments and Portuguese melodies.

a)

Blues

b)

Maracatu

c)

Soul

d)

Spiritual

5.

This form of music combines elements of African-American gospel music, rhythm and blues and jazz.

a)

Blues

b)

Maracatu

c)

Soul

d)

Spiritual

6.

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

7.

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

(a)  

8.

(a)   is a popular form of South African music featuring a lively and uninhibited variation of the jitterbug, a form of swing dance.

9.

(a)   is 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).

10.

What are the vocal forms of African music? Example: Call and Response. (No points for this question. Hehe!)

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11.

These are African instruments where sounds are produced by the vibration of a tightly stretched membrane.

(a)