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    African music has deep historical and cultural roots, with singing, dancing, drums, and other instruments being integral parts of ceremonies and events. Some traditional African musical genres include apala, juju, and marabi, which incorporate elements like talking drums, rattles, bells, and varying rhythmic patterns. Vocal African forms that developed in the diaspora include blues, soul, and samba. Musical instruments from Africa include idiophones like xylophones, rattles, and drums, as well as membranophones, lamellaphones, chordophones, and aerophones that vary by region.

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    African music has deep historical and cultural roots, with singing, dancing, drums, and other instruments being integral parts of ceremonies and events. Some traditional African musical genres include apala, juju, and marabi, which incorporate elements like talking drums, rattles, bells, and varying rhythmic patterns. Vocal African forms that developed in the diaspora include blues, soul, and samba. Musical instruments from Africa include idiophones like xylophones, rattles, and drums, as well as membranophones, lamellaphones, chordophones, and aerophones that vary by region.

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    African music has deep historical and cultural roots, with singing, dancing, drums, and other instruments being integral parts of ceremonies and events. Some traditional African musical genres include apala, juju, and marabi, which incorporate elements like talking drums, rattles, bells, and varying rhythmic patterns. Vocal African forms that developed in the diaspora include blues, soul, and samba. Musical instruments from Africa include idiophones like xylophones, rattles, and drums, as well as membranophones, lamellaphones, chordophones, and aerophones that vary by region.

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    AFRO-LATIN AND

    POPULAR MUSIC
    Prepared for DepEd National Training of Trainers for Grade 10 K-12
    VizMin Cluster by
    ALTHEA MAE B.BONGCAWIL
    Music of Africa

     Historical and Cultural Background of African Music


     Singing, dancing, hand clapping, and the beating of
    drums are essential to many ceremonies : birth, death,
    initiation, marriage and funerals.
     Important to religious expression and political events.
     It has great influences on global music ( contemporary
    American, Latin American, and European styles)
     ..\Videos\Free YouTube Downloader\Tshwane Traditional Dancers.mp4
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    of Central Africa (1).mp4
    Traditional Music of Africa

     Apala
     Musical genre from Nigeria in the
    Yoruba tribal style to wake up the
    worshippers after fasting during the
    Muslim holy feast of Ramadan.
    Instrumentation includes the
    rattle(sekere), thumb piano (agidigbo),
    bell ( agogo) and two or three talking
    drums.
    Traditional Music of Africa

     Axe
     Popular musical genre from Salvador, Bahia
    and Brazil. It fuses the Afro-Carribean styles of
    the marcha, reggae and calypso.
     Jit
     Hard and fast Zimbabwean dance music played
    on drums with guitar accompaniment.
    Traditional Music of Africa

     Jive- Lively and uninhibited variation of


    jitterbug
     Juju
     Popular style from Nigeria that relies on the
    traditional Yoruba rhythms.
     Kwassa Kwassa
     Shake your booty dance style begun in Zaire in
    the late 80’s.
    Music of Africa

     Marabi
     Characterized by simple chords in varying
    vamping patterns and repetitive harmony over an
    extended period of time to allow the dances more
    time on the dance floor.
     Reggae- Jamaican sound dominated by bass and
    guitar chops associated with Rastsafarian religion.
    Music of Africa

     Salsa- Afro-Cuban music.


     Samba- Typifies most Brazilian music
     Soca-
    Modern Trinidadian and Tobago pop
    music combining “soul” and “calypso”
    music.
    Music of Africa

     Were-Muslim music performed often as a


    wake-up call for early breakfast and
    prayers during Ramadan celebration.
     Zouk-Fast, carnival-like rhythmic music
    from the Creole slang word for “party”
    Originating in the Carribean Islands of
    Guadalupe and Martinique.
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    Vocal Forms of African Music

     1.Maracatu
    Surfaced in the African state of
    Pernambuco, combining the strong
    rhythms of African percussion
    instruments with Portugese melodies. It
    uses mostly percussion instruments such
    as the alfaia, tarol, and caixa-de-
    Guerra, gongue, agbe, and miniero.
    Vocal Forms of African Music

    2. Blues
    Musical form of the late 19th century that
    has had deep roots in African-American
    communities ( “Deep South” of the
    United States). Slaves used to sing as
    they worked in the cotton and vegetable
    fields.
    Vocal Forms of African Music

    The form of the blues is characterized by


    specific chord progression. The twelve-
    bar blues is the most common form. The
    notes of the blues are normally flattened
    or gradually bent.
    Vocal Forms of African Music

     3. Soul
    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.
    Vocal Forms of African Music

    Other characteristics include call and


    response between soloist and the chorus,
    and an especially tense and powerful
    vocal sound.
    Musical Instruments of Africa

     IDIOPHONES
    1. Xylophone: Balafon
    2. Rattles( made of shells, tin, animal
    hoofs, horn, wood, metal, bells, cocoons,
    palm kernels, or tortoise shells)
    3. Agogo(bell)- has the highest pitch of any
    of the bacteria instruments.
    Musical Instruments of Africa

    4. Rasps- a hand percussion


    instrument whose sound is produced
    by scraping a group of notched sticks
    with another stick, creating a series of
    rattling effects.
    Musical Instruments of Africa

    5. Drums ( slit or log)


     Slit drum- hollow percussion instrument,
    although known as a drum, it is not a true
    drum.
     Long drum- best known is the West African
    djembe, log drum.
    Musical Instruments of Africa

    6. Atingting Kon (Slit gong)- They were used


    to communicate between villages.
    Musical Instruments of Africa

     B. MEMBRANOPHONES
     Examples of these are found in the different
    localities:
     Entenga ( Ganda)
     Dundun (Yoruba)
     Atumpan (Akan)
     Ngoma (Shona)
    Musical Instruments of Africa

    B.1 Body Percussion


    B.2 Talking Drum
    C. LAMELLAPHONE- a set of plucked keys
    mounted on a sound board, known by
    different names according to the regions such
    as mbira, karimba, kisaanj, likembe.
    Musical Instruments of Africa

     D. CHORDOPHONES-
     D1. Musical bow- Earth bow, mouth bow
    and the resonator-bow are the principle
    types of musical bows.
     D2. Harp
     D3. Lute ( konting, khalam, and the nkoni)
     D4. Zither
    Musical Instruments of Africa

     AEROPHONES- Flutes in various sizes and


    shapes ( Fulani flutes ). Panpipes and
    Horns( Kudo horns)
    Slit drum
    Shekere
    Agogo
    Djembe
    Mbira ( Hand piano or Thumb piano )

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