Music of africa

Second Grading PPT of African Music

1. MUSIC OF AFRICA

2. Music of Africa Music has always been an important part in the daily life of African. Music and dance are also important to religious expression and political Events.

3. Traditional Music of Africa African music is largely functional in nature. Used primarily in ceremonial rites such as birth, death, marriage, succession, worship, and spirit invocations.

4. TYPES OF AFRICAN MUSIC

5. Afrobeat Term used to describe the fusion of West African and Black American Music

6. APALA or AKPALA Musical genre from Nigeria in the Yoruba tribal style to wake up the worshippers after fasting during the Muslim holy feast of Ramadan.

7. AXE Popular musical genre from Salvador, Bahia, and Brazil. It fuses the Afro- Carribean style of Marcha , Reggae, and Calypso.

8. JIT A hard fast percussive Zimbabwean dance Music played on drums with guitar accompaniment, influenced by mbira – based guitar styles.

9. JIVE A popular form of South African Music featuring a lively and uninhibited variation of the jitterbug, a form of swing dance.

10. JUJU A popular Music style from Nigeria that relies on the traditional Yoruba rhythms.

11. KWASSA KWASSA A dance style that begun in Zaire in late 1980s popularized by K anda Bongo Man.

12. MARABI A south African three- chord township music of the 1930s – 1960s which evolved into African Jazz.

13. LATIN AMERICAN INFLUENCED BY AFRICAN MUSIC

14. REGGAE A Jamaican sound dominated by Bass guitar and Drums

15. SALSA Music is Cuban, Puerto Rican, and Colombian Dance Music. It comprises various musical genres including the Cuban son montuno, guaracha, chachacha , mambo and Bolero.

16. SAMBA Is the basic underlying rhythm that typifies most Brazilian Music.

17. SOCA A modern Trinidadian and Tobago pop music combining “Soul” and “Calypso” music.

18. WERE A M uslim music performed often as a wake up call for early breakfast and prayers during Ramadan Celebrations.

19. ZOUK A fast carnival – like rhythmic music, from Creole slang word for Party.

20. VOCAL FORMS OF AFRICAN MUSIC

21. MARACATU First surfaced in the African State of Pernambuco, combining the strong rhythms of African percussion instruments with Portuguese melodies.

22. BLUES A musical form of the late 19 th century that has deep roots in African – American communities. The notes of blues create expressive and soulful sound. The feelings that are evoked are normally associated with slight degrees of misfortune, lost in love, frustration, or loneliness.

23. Known Performers of the Blues Genre Ray Charles James brown Calloway Aretha Franklin John Lee Hooker

24. SOUL MUSIC Was a popular music genre of the 1950s and 1960s. It originated in the United States. It combines elements of African – American Gospel music, rhythm and blues and often Jazz. The catchy Rhythms are accompanied by handclaps and extemporaneous body moves which are among its important features.

25. Brown was known as the “ Godfather of Soul” Sam Cookie and Jackie Wilson are acknowledged as “Soul Forefathers” Soul Music Examples: Ain’t no Mountain High Enough All I Could do is cry Soul to soul Ben

26. SPIRITUAL The term Spiritual, normally associated with a deeply religious person, refer here to a Negro Spiritual, a song form by African Migrants to America who became enslaved by its white community. The texts are mainly religious, sometimes taken for Psalms of biblical passages.

27. Examples of Spiritual Music We are climbing Jacobs Ladder Rock my soul When the saints go marching in Peace be still

28. CALL AND RESPONSE The call and Response method is a succession of two distinct musical Phrases usually rendered by different musicians where the second phrase acts as a direct commentary on or response to the first. It also forms a strong resemblance to the verse – chorus form in many vocal compositions.

29. CALL AND RESPONSE SONGS Mannish Boy - a signature song by Muddy Waters School Day - Ring, Ring goes the bell by Chuck Berry.

30. MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS OF AFRICAN MUSIC

31. BALAFON The balafon is a West African Xylophone. It is a pitched percussion Instrument with bars made from logs or bamboo.

32. RATTLES Rattles are made of seashells, tin, basketry, animal hoofs, horn, wood, metal bells, and cocoons.

33. AGOGO It is a single bell or multiple bells that had its origins in traditional Yoruba music and also the samba baterias ensembles.

34. ATINGTING KON These are slits gongs used to communicate between villages. They were carved out of wood to resemble ancestors and had a “slit opening” at the bottom.

35. SLIT DRUMS The slit drum is hollow percussion instrument. Although known as a drum. It is not a true drum but is an idiophone.

36. DJEMBE It is one of the best – known African Drums is. It is shaped like a large goblet and played with bare hands. The body is carved from a hollowed trunk and is covered in goat skin.

37. SHEKERE The shekere is a type of gourd and shell megaphone from west Africa, consisting of a dried gourd with beads woven into a net covering the cowrie shells usually strung with white

38. RASP A rasp or Scraper is a hand percussion instrument whose sound is produced by scraping the notches on a piece of wood with a stick creating a series of rattling effects.

39. TALKING DRUM (LUNA) Used to send messages to announce births, deaths, marriages, sporting events, dances, initiations, or war. It is believed that the drums can carry direct messages to the spirits after the death of a loved one.

40. MBIRA The thumb piano or Finger Xylophone is of African origin and is used throughout the continent. It is played by holding he instrument in the hands and plucking the tines with the thumbs, producing a soft plucked sound.

41. MUSICAL BOW The Musical bow is the ancestor of all string instruments. It is the oldest and one of the most widely used string instruments of Africa. The string is either plucked or struck with another stick producing a percussive yet delicate sound.

42. LUTE (NKONI) The lute originating from the Arabic states, shaped like the modern guitar and played in similar fashion.

43. KORA Africa’s most sophisticated harp while having similar features to a lute.

44. ZITHER Stringed instrument with varying sizes and shapes whose strings are stretched along its body. (Raft Zither)

45. ZEZE African Fiddle played with bow a small wooden stick or plucked with the fingers.

46. ANTEBEN (Ghana)

47. FULANI FLUTES

48. PANPIPES

49. KUDU HORN Made from the horn of Kudu Antelope. Releases a mellow and warm sounds that adds a unique African accent to the Music.

50. REED PIPES The most well known Reed pipe is the Rhaita or ghaita .

51. WHISTLE

52. TRUMPETS