7. 3. Popular music has a
good rhythm, a catchy
melody and easy to
remember and hard to sing
along.
8. 4. Vocal forms of African
music and Latin American
music played an important
role in the development of
popular music.
9. 5. Singing, dancing, hand
clapping and the beating of
drums are essential to
many African ceremonies.
10.
11. 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,
12. 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
13. 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.
14.
15. 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.
16. 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.
17. Jit
• A hard and fast percussive
Zimbabwean dance music played on
drums with guitar accompaniment
influenced by mbira-based guitar
styles.
18. Jive
• A popular form of South African music
featuring a lively and uninhibited
variation o jitterbug, a form of swing
dance.
19. Juju
• A popular music style from Nigeria that
relies on the Traditional Yoruba
rhythms where the instruments are
more Western in origin.
20. 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.
21. Marabi
• A South African three-chord township
music of 1930s-1960s which evolved
into African jazz.
22. 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
23.
24. 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.
25. Salsa
• Music is Cuban, Puerto Rican and
Colombian dance music comprises
musical genres including Cuban son
montuno, guaracha, chachacha,
mambo and bolero.
26. 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.
27. 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.
28. Were
• A Muslim music often performed as a
wake-up call for early breakfast and
prayers during Ramadan celebrations.
29. 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.
33. QUESTIONS TO PONDER:
1. Are you familiar to any of the
musical styles of Afro-Latin
America?
2. Why do you think this music are
important to them?
3. Among the type of African music,
which evolved into dance forms
that remain popular today?
34.
35. • Music and dance are important to religious expression and
political events.
• The birth of Jazz forms.
• It consists of musical pieces of the 20th century.
• Music is used in communication.
• Opera was prominent in most performances.
• Beating of drums are essential to Africa ceremonies.
• Musical forms were used in Broadways and other Musical plays.
• Afrobeat is the fusion of West African and black American
music.
Choose from the box below the Five (5) characteristics that described Afro-Latin
American Music.
36. “Learning is not attained by
chance, it must be sought for with
ardor and attended to with
diligence.”
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