African Music Grade 10 Second quarter

1. A F R I C A N
M U S I C
2 n d Q u a r t e r

2. A. MUSIC OF AFRICA G. JIVE
B. AFROBEAT H. MARABI
C. APALA I. AXE
D. JUJU J. JIT
E. DUN-DUN K. ZOUK
F. KWASSA-KWASSA
A1. It is a rich and diverse cultural heritage that exists in
hundreds of different languages.
B 2. It is decribed as the fusion of west African and Black
American music.
C 3. It is used to wake up the worshipper after fasting during the
Muslim holy feast of Ramadan.

3. I 4. It is a popular musical genre from Salvador, Bahia, and Brazil.
J 5. It is hard and fast percussive Zimbabwean dance music
played on drums with guitar accompaniment.
F 6. This dance style began in Zaire in the late 1980s and was
popularized by Kanda Bongo Man.
A. MUSIC OF AFRICA G. JIVE
B. AFROBEAT H. MARABI
C. APALA I. AXE
D. JUJU J. JIT
E. DUN-DUN K. ZOUK
F. KWASSA-KWASSA

4. H 7. This refers to the South African three-chord township music of
the 1930s which evolved into African jazz.
G 8. It is a popular form of South African music featuring a lively and
uninhabited variation of the jitterbug.
D 9. It is a popular music style from Nigeria that relies on the
traditional Yoruba rhythms.
E 10. It is known as the “talking drum or squeeze drum”.
A. MUSIC OF AFRICA G. JIVE
B. AFROBEAT H. MARABI
C. APALA I. AXE
D. JUJU J. JIT
E. DUN-DUN K. ZOUK
F. KWASSA-KWASSA

5. O B J E C T I V E S
1. Describe the historical and cultural background of
African Music.
2. Listen to the different musical styles of African Music.

6. What is African Music?

7. AFRICAN MUSIC
-has rich and diverse
cultural heritage that exist
in hundreds of different
languages.

8. CALL AND RESPONSE
a person leads by singing a phrase
and followed and answered by a
group of singers.

10. African Music basically has an
interlocking structural format due
mainly to its overlapping and
dense texture as well as its
rhythmic complexity.

11. Some Types of African Music
AFROBEAT
is a term used to describe the fusion
of West African with black American music.

13. Apala (Akpala)
is a musical genre from Nigeria in the
Yoruba tribal style to wake up the worshippers
after fasting during the Muslim holy feast of
Ramadan.

14. RATTLE (Sekere) BELL (Agogo)

15. TALKING DRUMS
THUMB PIANO
(Agidigbo)

16. APALA

17. Axe
is a popular musical genre from Salvador, Bahia,
and Brazil. It fuses the Afro_x0002_Caribbean
styles of the marcha, reggae, and calypso.

18. JIT
- hard and fast percussive Zimbabwean
dance music played on drums with guitar
accompaniment.

20. JIVE
a popular form of South African music
featuring a lively and uninhibited variation of the
jitterbug, a form of swing dance.

22. JUJU
is a popular music style from Nigeria that relies on the traditional
Yoruba rhythms, where the instruments in Juju are more Western
in origin. A drum kit, keyboard, pedal steel guitar, and accordion
are used along with the traditional dun-dun (talking drum or
squeeze drum

24. KWASSA-KWASSA
a dance style begun in Zaire
in the late 1980’s, popularized by Kanda
Bongo Man. In this dance style, the hips move
back and forth while the arms move following
the hips.

26. MARABI
- a South African three-chord township music of the 1930s-1960s
which evolved into African Jazz.
- 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