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HEALTH 10 Q2 -- AFRO-LATIN AMERICAN MUSIC

“Music is the greatest unifier, an incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and
anything else can have in common.” – Sarah Dessen, Just Listen. United States: Viking, 2006.
This quote speaks of the way Africans consider music because they believe that music serves as a link between
the actual world of the spiritual world. Music is indeed a vital part of everyday life in Africa. You will learn
more about it as you continue your journey through Afro-Latin American Music and how it has developed into
the music of the dances we now enjoy.
Are you ready to explore the music of Africa and Latin America?
Some Types of African Music
1. Afrobeat – It is a term used to describe the fusion of West African with Black American music.
2. Apala (Akpala) - 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.
3. Axe - It is a popular musical genre from Salvador, Bahia, and Brazil. It fuses the Afro-Caribbean styles of
marcha, reggae, and calypso.
4. Jit - It is a hard and fast percussive Zimbabwean dance music played on drums with guitar accompaniment
influenced by mbira-based guitar styles.
5. Jive - It is a popular form of South African music featuring a lively and uninhibited variation of the jitterbug,
a form of swing dance.
6. Juju - 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).
7. Kwassa Kwassa – It is a music style that began in Zaire in the late 1980s popularized by Kanda Bongo Man. In
this dance style, the hips move back and forth while the arms move following the hips.
8. Marabi – It is a South African three-chord township music of the 1930s-1960s that evolved into African Jazz.
It is characterized by simple chords in varying vamping patterns and repetitive harmony over an extended
period.
VOCAL FORMS OF AFRICAN MUSIC
1. Maracatu – It is the combination of strong rhythms of African percussion instruments and Portuguese
melodies. This form of music is being paraded along the streets by up to 100 participants.
2. Blues – It is one of the most widely performed musical forms of the late 19th century. The melodies of blues
are expressive and soulful. The slaves and their descendants used to sing these as they worked in the fields.
3. Soul – It is a popular music genre of the 1950s and 1960s that originated in the African-American
community throughout the United States. It combines elements of African-American gospel music, rhythm
and blues, and often jazz.
4. Spiritual – It originated in the United States and was 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.
5. Call and Response – It is likened to a question-and-answer sequence in human communication. The slaves
used to sing these songs while simultaneously doing all their tasks in a day.

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