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AMERICA AND POPULAR
MUSIC
Music of
Africa
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
A.Understand the Music of Africa;
B.Identify the styles and genres of the music of
Africa; and
C.Differentiate Traditional African Music and
Afro-Latin Music.
MOTIVATION
1. SAMBA
1. ASMBA
2. GEGARE 2. REGGAE
3. IMBARA 3. MARABI
4. VIEJ 4. JIVE
5. MUCARATA 5. MARACATU
1. HOW WAS THE ACTIVITY?
2. FROM THE ACTIVITY, WHICH EMOTION DID

YOU USE MORE? HAPPY OR SAD EMOJI?
3. DO YOU HAVE ANY KNOWLEDGE OR IDEA

REGARDING THE INFORMATION GIVEN FROM
THE ACTIVITY?
NATURE OF AFRO-
LATIN AMERICAN
MUSIC
Traditional African Music
• Music has always play an important role in the daily lives of
Africans. It can be for work, religion, ceremonies, or even
communication.
• For the African ceremonies, singing, dancing, clapping, and

beating of drums have essential roles even in religious
expressions and political events.
• The wide influence of African music spread throughout the

world. It permeated contemporary American, Latin American,
and European styles.
Music of Africa
• African music is a result of the collective cultural and
musical variety of more than 50 ethnic divisions of the
continent.
• The organization of this vast continent is a colonial legacy

from European rule of different nations up to the 19th
century, enabling it to incorporate its music with language,
environment, political development, immigration, and
cultural diversity
Music of Africa
• In the particular subject of research are its rhythmic
structures and spiritual characteristic that have led
to the birth of jazz forms.
Afrobeat
• A term used to describe the fusion of West African
with Black American music.
STYLES AND
GENRES
Apala (Akpala)
• a musical genre from Nigeria in the Yoruba tribal
style – used to wake up worshippers after fasting
during the Muslim holy feast of Ramadan.
Axe
• a popular musical genre from Salvador, Bahia
and Brazil. It fuses the Afro-Caribbean styles
of the marcha, reggae and calypso played by
the carnival bands.
Jit
• A hard and fast percussive Zimbabwean dance
music played on drums with guitar accompaniment
influenced by mbira-based guitar styles.
Jive
• A popular form of South African music featuring a
lively and uninhibited variation o jitterbug, a form
of swing dance.
Juju
• A popular music style from Nigeria that relies on
the Traditional Yoruba rhythms where the
instruments are more Western in origin.
Kwassa Kwassa
• A dance style begun in Zaire in the late 1980s,
popularized by Kanda Bongo Man. This dance styles
hip move back and forth while the arms follow the
hip movement.
Marabi
• A South African three-chord township music of
1930s-1960s which evolved into African jazz.
Afro-Latin Music
• The Latin American music is the product of three major
influences of indigenous Spanish, Portuguese and Africa.
• It pertains to Latin music because of the impact on the
countries colonized by Spain and Portugal, spanning in
various areas.
• Because of the interracial relationship and migration, the
abovementioned countries also became populated by five
major ancestral groups.
STYLES AND
GENRES
Reggae
• A Jamaican musical style that was strongly
influenced by the island’s traditional mento music as
well as by Calypso, African music, American Jaz and
Rhythm and Blues.
Salsa
• Music is Cuban, Puerto Rican and Colombian dance
music comprises musical genres including Cuban
son montuno, guaracha, chachacha, mambo and
bolero.
Samba
• A Brazilian musical genre and dance style. Its
roots can be traced to Africa via West African
slave trade and African religious traditions in
Angola ad Congo.
Soca
• Also known as the soul of Calypso. It originated as a
fusion of Calypso with Indian rhythms thus
combining the musical traditions of the two major
ethnic groups of Trinidad and Tobago.
Were
• A Muslim music often performed as a wake-up call
for early breakfast and prayers during Ramadan
celebrations.
Zouk
• A fast, carnival-like rhythmic music from the
Creole slang word “party”. It originated in the
Caribbean Islands of Guadaloupe and
Martinique and was popularized in the 1980s.
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AMERICA AND POPULAR

2. FROM THE ACTIVITY, WHICH EMOTION DID

3. DO YOU HAVE ANY KNOWLEDGE OR IDEA

• For the African ceremonies, singing, dancing, clapping, and

• The wide influence of African music spread throughout the

• The organization of this vast continent is a colonial legacy

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