African Music- Quarter 2 Music Grade 10

3. MUSIC OF AFRICA
Music has always been an important part
in the daily life of the African, whether for
work, religion, ceremonies, or even
communication. Singing, dancing, hand
clapping and the beating of drums are
essential to many African ceremonies,
including those for birth, death, initiation,
marriage, and funerals. Music and dance
are also important to religious expression
and political events.

4. TRADITIONAL MUSIC OF
AFRICA
African traditional music is largely
functional in nature, used primarily in
ceremonial rites, such as birth, death,
marriage, succession, worship, and
spirit invocations. Others are work
related or social in nature, while many
traditional societies view their music
as entertainment.

5. - It has a basically interlocking
structural format, due mainly to its
overlapping and dense textural
characteristics as well as its rhythmic
complexity. Its many sources of stylistic
influence have produced varied
characteristics and genres.

6. Some Types of African Music
1. Afrobeat- Afro beat is a term
used to describe the fusion of
West African with black American
music.

7. 2. Apala (Akpala) - Apala 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. Percussion instrumentation
includes the rattle(sekere), thumb
piano(agidigbo), bell (agogo), and two
or three talking drums.

9. 3. Axe- Axe is a popular musical
genre from Salvador, Bahia, and
Brazil. It fuses the AfroCaribbean
styles of the marcha, reggae, and
calypso.

11. 4. Jit - Jit is a hard and fast
percussive Zimbabwean dance
music played on drums with
guitar accompaniment,
influenced by mbira-based guitar
styles.

12. 5. Jive -Jive is a popular form of
South African music featuring a
lively and uninhibited variation of
the jitterbug, a form of swing
dance.

14. 6. Juju - 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).

15. 7. Kwassa Kwassa- Kwassa
Kwassa is 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.

16. 8. Marabi- Marabi is a South
African three-chord township
music of the 1930s-1960s which
evolved into African Jazz.

17. Possessing a keyboard style
combining American jazz, ragtime
and blues with African roots, it is
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.

18. What are the elements of
African music?

19. VALUES INTEGRATION:
1. Respect