Geo & Hist. Context
This is the primary slave trade route out of Africa.
What is the Atlantic Slave trade?
This musical technique involves a musical leader who starts a song with a rhythm or melody and the rest of the group responds.
What is call and response?
True or False: Music in Africa often occurs in Artistic situation, not social situations.
Many drum rhythms from this American Musical Genre come from Africa.
Rattles fall into this category of instruments.
What is percussion?
Africa has approximately this many inhabitants.
What is 1.4 billion?
True or False: Many tribes/groups have a few instruments that they focus on playing, rather than playing them all.
What is True.
The most practiced religion in Africa.
What is Christianity?
These 3 genres have their roots in African Music.
What are gospel, blues, and jazz.
Specific instruments are restricted to certain players. Name one common restriction.
What is...
age/gender/ social status
At this conference European powers divided the continent of Africa to take for themselves.
What is the 1884 Berlin Conference?
True or False: In Africa, Music is normally the primary purpose of a gathering.
What is false?
It is not common for these two groups to dance together in Africa.
What are men and women?
This occurs when a rhythm is played and then shifted by a beat to create a new rhythm.
Cross Rhythms
This drum is used to mimic tonal languages in Africa.
What is the talking drum?
The continent of Africa is divided in half by this geographical marker.
What is the equator?
This is an indispensable element in musical training in Africa.
What is culture?
Priests are known to inhabit these beings while dancing.
What are gods/ spirits/ ancestors?
This groups is often tasked with keeping the beat with their feet.
Who are dancers?
African name for the thumb piano.
What it the mbira?
During this time period, Africa changed from 1/10 under European Imperial Rule to 9/10 under imperial rule.
What is the Scramble for Africa?
Multipart singing in Africa embraces these 2 different approaches. (Think textures)
What are homophonic and polyphonic.
Euro-American influence in seen in African music through these two instruments.
What are the electric guitar and drum set?
This style of music originated in Ghana and combines African meters with Western jazz melodies.
What is Highlife?
This instrument can be plucked or bowed and is found all over Africa in different forms. Despite its name, this is not a wind instrument.
What is the lute.