AFRO-LATIN MUSIC

AFRICAN
MUSIC

TRADITIONAL AFRICAN MUSIC

Singing, dancing, hand clapping,

and the beating of drums are essential to
many ceremonies :
Birth
Death
Initiation
Succession
Marriage

Traditional Music of Africa

APALA
genre from Nigeria to
wake up the worshippers after fasting
during the Ramadan.

Traditional Music of Africa

JIT

Aggressive and fast

Zimbabwean dance music

Traditional Music of Africa

*

JUJU
Popular style from Nigeria

Traditional Music of Africa

* KWASSA KWASSA
Shake your booty dance style
originated in Zaire

Traditional Music of Africa

Instruments

SHEKERE

(rattle )

MBIRA (Thumb piano )

AGOGO (bell )

DJEMBE

(talking drums)

Vocal Forms of African Music

Blues
deep

roots in African-American communities.

Slaves used to sing as they worked in the cotton
and vegetable fields.

BB King:
BLUES

playing the

Vocal Forms of African Music

Soul
It combines elements of African-American gospel
music, rhythm and blues, and often jazz.
with call and response
Intense singing

ARETHA FRANKLIN.SOUL MUSIC

AFRO-LATIN MUSIC

AFRO-LATIN MUSIC

REGGAE

Jamaican sound dominated by BONGOS/ PERCUSSIONS/

bass
and guitar chops

AFRO-LATIN MUSIC

REGGAE

AFRO-LATIN

Salsa- Afro-Cuban music.

Samba- Typifies most Brazilian music

AFRO-LATIN MUSIC

CHA-CHA
TANGO

AFRO-LATIN MUSIC

Trivia

TWERKING- afro_Latin
music!

AFRO-AMERICAN MUSIC

JIVE

It is a lively and uninhibited variation of theJitterbug, a

form ofSwing dance.