Scribd
Upload
173 views9 pages

Tradtional Music of Africa

African traditional music is largely functional in nature and used primarily in ceremonial rites such as birth, death, marriage, succession, worship and spirit invocations. African music has an interlocking structural format due to its overlapping and dense texture as well as its rhythmic complexity. Some influential styles and genres of African traditional music described in the document include Afrobeat, Apala, Axe, Jit, Jive, Juju, Kwassa-kwassa, and Marabi.

Uploaded by

Winter Blythe
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PPTX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
173 views9 pages

Tradtional Music of Africa

African traditional music is largely functional in nature and used primarily in ceremonial rites such as birth, death, marriage, succession, worship and spirit invocations. African music has an interlocking structural format due to its overlapping and dense texture as well as its rhythmic complexity. Some influential styles and genres of African traditional music described in the document include Afrobeat, Apala, Axe, Jit, Jive, Juju, Kwassa-kwassa, and Marabi.

Uploaded by

Winter Blythe
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PPTX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 9

Tradtional Music of Africa

 African traditional music is  African music has a basically


largely functional in interlocking structural
nature,use  format,due mainly to its
overlapping and dense
 primarily in ceremonial texture as
rites,such as  well as its rhytmic
 birth,death,marriage,succes complexity.It’s many sources
sion,workship and spirit of
 invocations.  influence have produced
such varied styles and
genres as
 the following;
Afrobeat
Afrobeat is a term used
to describe the
fusion of West African
with Black American
Music.
Apala
(Akpala)
Apala is a musicsl genre from Nigeria in
the
Yoruba tribal style,used to wake up the
worshippers after fasting during Muslim
holy feast of Ramadan.Percussion
instrumedntation includes the rattle
(sekere)
thumb piano (agidigbo) bell (agogo) ,
and
two or three talking rums.
AXE
Axe is a popular music genre
from
Salvador,Bahia and Brazil.It
fuses
the Afro-Caribbean styles of
the
marcha ,reggae,and
calypso,and is
played by carnival bands.
jit
Jit is a hard and fast
percussive
Zimbabwean dance music
played
on drums with guitar
accompaniment influenced
by
mbira-based guitar styles
JIVE
Jive is a popular form of
South
African Music featuring a
lively and
uninhibited variation of the
jitterbug,a form of swing
dance.
JUJU
Juju is a popular music style from
Nigeria
that relies on the traditional Yoruba
rhythms where the instruments are
more
Western in origin. A drum
kit,keyboard,pedal steel guitar,and
accordion are used along with the
traditional dun-dun (talking drum of
squeeze drum).
Kwassa-kwassa
Kwassa-kwassa is a dance
style begun in
Zaire in the late 1980s
,popularized by
Kanda Bongo Man.In this
dance style,the
hips move back and forth while
the arms
follow the hip movements.
Marabi
Marabi is a South African three-chored
township
music of the 1930s-1960s which evolved into
african jazz.It makes use of a keyboard style
that
combines American jazz,ragtime,and blues
with
African roots.It is characterized by simple
chords
in varying vamping patterns and repetitive
harmony over an extended period of time to
allow the dancers more time on the dance
floor.

You might also like