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    The document discusses the music of Africa and Latin America. It notes that African music is diverse across the continent, relying heavily on percussion instruments and complex rhythms. It influenced genres in the Americas through the slave trade. Latin American music originated with European colonization but incorporated elements of Indigenous and African music, like the samba and salsa. The genres use instruments from all three traditions like percussion, strings, and woodwinds.

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    AFRO - LATIN MUSIC

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    The document discusses the music of Africa and Latin America. It notes that African music is diverse across the continent, relying heavily on percussion instruments and complex rhythms. It influenced genres in the Americas through the slave trade. Latin American music originated with European colonization but incorporated elements of Indigenous and African music, like the samba and salsa. The genres use instruments from all three traditions like percussion, strings, and woodwinds.

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    AFRO LATIN

    MUSIC

    The music of the Non-western


    countries reflects and expresses
    the mixture of the worlds
    languages, religions, values,
    beliefs, social and economic
    systems, geographical conditions,
    and ways of life. Every culture has
    its own characteristic instruments,
    tonal systems, melodic and
    rhythmic patterns and performance
    practices.

    The Non-western cultures also


    differ in their range of musical
    styles: folk music style, popular
    music and complex classical as
    well and can offer a wide range of
    listening experiences and cultural
    insights. Furthermore, nonwestern traditions were an
    important source of inspiration
    for the twentieth century western
    music.

    AFRICAN MUSIC
    The traditional music of Africa is
    historically ancient, rich and
    diverse with distinct musical
    traditions of the different
    regions and nations of Africa and
    the continent is much passed
    down orally or (aurally) and it is
    not written.

    The continent of Africa was divided into North


    Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa, the SubSaharan Africa, which is environmentally and
    culturally diverse has several thousand peoples
    with different religions, customs and over 700
    different languages. The music is a diverse as its
    people, relies heavily on percussion
    instruments, including the xylophones,
    drums, and tone- producing instruments
    such as the mbira or thumb piano, and
    complex in rhythms and polyrhythm and wide
    variety of instrumental ensembles Vocal music
    often performed by a soloist and a responding
    chorus, and a different cultures of Africa have
    influenced each other.

    The music and dance of the African


    diaspora ( refers to the
    communities throughout the world
    that are descended from the historic
    movement of peoples of Africa),
    formed an African musical traditions,
    including American music and many
    Caribbean genres such as coco,
    calypso and zouk.

    The music of Africa is used to


    entertain as part of dances, plays,
    religious ceremonies, magic rites and
    to mark such as birth, puberty,
    marriage and death. There are work
    songs, specific songs or dances to
    treat the ill, songs praising for
    leaders, criticizing authority,
    recounting history and many songs
    for particular occasions.

    LATIN AMERICAN MUSIC


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    The origin of Latin American music begins


    with Spain and Portugals colonization of
    Latin America in 16th century where the
    European settlers brought their music
    from overseas. The Latin American music
    is performed in Spanish, Portuguese and to
    a lesser extent, French. The cumbia, chacha, tango, bossa nova, reggae, foxtrot
    pasa doble are the vocal and dance form
    music generated from Latin countries.

    The Latin American music also


    incorporates African music from slaves
    who were transported to the America by
    European and settles as well as the music
    from Indigenous people of the Americas.
    The samba, rumba, salsa and other clave
    (rhythm) are the Latin American genres
    found to varying degrees on the music of
    enslaved Africans and have turn
    influenced African popular music.

    Latin American music is


    characterized by its prominent use of
    percussion and stringed instruments
    that each of a major traditions
    contributed remained in common
    use. The claves, guiro, maracas,
    bongos, cajon and charango are the
    instruments use for their music.

    Claves is a pair of hard wood sticks that


    struck together in particular patterns to
    provide the rhythmic key of the song.

    Guiro is a hollowed gourd made from the


    fruit of higuera. A fine wire fork is used to
    scratch the ridges producing a scraping
    sound.

    Maracas (shakers) is a traditionally made


    gourd with beans

    Bongos is a two drums consisting of


    one larger drum and one smaller drum
    joined together.

    Cajon is a wooden rectangular box


    played as a drum
    Charango is a small ten stringed
    guitar traditionally made from an
    armadillo shell.

    The genre of Latin American and


    Caribbean urban popular music
    developed in the 20th century
    incorporated musical instruments of
    the three traditions are the European
    string, woodwind, brass, and
    keyboard melodic instruments
    supported by Indian or African
    derived from harmonic and rhythmic
    instruments.

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