MAPEH MUSIC 2ND QUARTER
It is a term used to describe the fusion of West African with Black American music.
afrobeat
It 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
apala
is a popular musical genre from Salvador, Bahia, and Brazil. It fuses the Afro-Caribbean styles of marcha, reggae, and calypso.
axe
It is a hard and fast percussive Zimbabwean dance music played on drums with guitar accompaniment influenced by mbira- based guitar styl
jit
is a popular form of South African music featuring a lively and uninhibited variation of the jitterbug, a form of swing dance.
jive
It is a popular music style from Nigeria that relies on the traditional Yoruba rhythms. A drum kit, keyboard, pedal steel guitar, and accordion are used along with the traditional dun-dun (talking drum or squeeze drum).
juju
. In this dance style, the hips move back and forth while the arms move following the hips.
kwasa kwasa
It is a South African three-chord township music of the 1930s-1960s which evolved into African Jazz. It is characterized by simple chords in varying vamping patterns and repetitive harmony over an extended period.
marabi
It is the combination of strong rhythms of African percussion instruments and Portuguese melodies.
maracatu
. The slaves and their descendants used to sing these as they work in the fields.
blues
It combines elements of African-American gospel music, rhythm and blues, and often jazz.
soul
created by African-American slaves. It is also known as "Negro Spiritual". It became a means of imparting Christian values and a way of venting their hardships as slaves.
spritual
It is likened to a question-and-answer sequence in human communication.
call and response
Sound is produced by the body of the instrument vibrating.
idiophones
It is a single bell or multiple bells and is considered as the oldest samba instrument based on West African Yoruba single or double bells. It has the highest pitch of any of the bateria instruments.
agogo
It is a type of gourd and shell megaphone from West Africa, consisting of a dried gourd with beads woven into a net covering the gourd.
shekere
is usually carved or constructed from bamboo or wood into a box with one or more slits in the top
slit/log drum
It is a hollowed cylinder of wood with a narrow longitudinal opening or slit whose edges are struck to produce a deep, sonorous tone. They are portraits of ancestors so that when played, it is the voices of awakened ancestors which resonate from their interior chamber.
atingting kong
It is a kind of wooden xylophone or percussion idiophone which plays melodic tunes. It has been played in the region since the 1300s. In the 16th century, it became a real art at the royal court of Sikasso/ Mali and was flourishing under the reign of a generous king.
balafon
Sound is produced by the vibration of a tightly stretched membrane,
membranophones