West African Music
Ghana
Slave trade and music
Musica Jibara
Bomba and Plena
100
There is no word for this English term in any West African Language
What is music?
100
A style of music popular among the rich of the Ewe people of Ghana
What is Gahu?
100
The region of the Western Hemisphere that imported the most slaves
What is the Caribbean?
100
The name of the four-stringed instrument used in musica jibara
What is the cuatro?
100
The name of the drum used in Bomba
What is a buleador?
200
Name for the person in a West African tribe who serves as musician, historian, and healer, among other things
What is a griot?
200
The name of the smallest drum in the Ewe ensemble
What is kagan?
200
A term referring to the fusion or blending of different racial and cultural groups over time
What is Creolization?
200
a typical style of music jibara, which takes its name from a spanish sacred dance for six children
What is seis?
200
The name of the frame drum used in Plena
What is a pandero?
300
The name of the multiple-stringed instrument generally used by a griot
What is the kora?
300
The name of the double bell in the Ewe ensemble
What is gangokui?
300
type of singing style that is present both in West Africa and the Caribbean
What is Call and Response?
300
The name of the "forced foot," a line of poetry that is found at the end of every stanza of seis poetry
What is "pie forzado"?
300
The name of the lead drummer in a bomba ensemble
what is Primo?
400
The most important musical element in West African musical practices
What is Rhythm?
400
The name of the lead drum in the Ewe ensemble
What is Atsimevu?
400
Term that refers to the dispersion of a people that remember their homeland and maintain cultural boundaries within their new society
What is Diaspora?
400
The name of the most common form of decima poetry used in seis
What is Espinela?
400
The name of the wooden Taino slit drum often used in Bomba
What is Mayohuacan?
500
Term associated with the teaching of syllables to perform drum rhythms
What is Aural Transfer?
500
The number of phases that are commonly found in Gahu
What is four?
500
Spanish term for the "little group of three" rhythm that was imported from West Africa to the Caribbean
What is Tresillo?
500
The practice of jibaros (farmers) going from house to house on Christmas singing songs until they are given food and rum

What is Asaltos Navidenos?

500
The first form of working class music in Puerto Rico to become popular in all social classes
What is Plena?
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