MAPEH  BLUES

Music of Africa -notes creates an expressive and soulful sound and the
Traditional Music feelings evoke associated with misfortune, lost love,
 AFROBEAT frustration or loneliness
-fusion of West African with Black American Music  SOUL
 APALA (AKPALA) -
-from Nigeria
-use to wake up the worshipers after fasting during the
Muslim holy feast of Ramadan
 AXE
-from Salvador, Bahia, and Brazil
-fuses Afro-Caribbean styles and played by carnival bands
 JIT
-hard and fast percussive Zimbabwean dance music
 JIVE
-popular form of South African music featuring a lively and
uninhibited variation of the jitterbug, a form of swing dance
 JUJU
-from Nigeria that relies on the traditional Yoruba rhythms,
were the instruments are more Western in origin
 KWASSA KWASSA
-begun in Zaire in the late 1980s, popularized by Kanda
Bongo Man.
 MARABI
-South African three-cord township music of the 1930s-1960s
which evolved into African Jazz
Latin American Music influenced by African Music
 REGGAE
-Jamaican MS, strongly influenced by the island’s traditional
mento music, as well as by calypso.
-offbeat rhythm and staccato chords
 SALSA
-Cuban, Puerto Rican and Colombian DM and comprises
various M genres
 SAMBA
-Brazilian MG and DS, basic underlying rhythm that typifies
most Brazilian M and has a lively and rhythmical beat and
feel like a timed dance
 SOCA
-soul of calypso
 WERE
-Muslim M, wake-up call for early breakfast and prayers
during Ramadan celebrations
 ZOUK
-fast, carnival-like rhythmic music, from Creole slang word
for party
VOCAL FORMS OF AFRICAN MUSIC
MARACATU- combining strong rhythms of African
Percussion instruments with Portuguese melodies. The
groups were called nacoes (nations).