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24 Cards in this Set
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Afrobeat |
term used to describe the fusion of West African with black american music |
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Apala (Akpala) |
musical genre from Nigeria in the Yoruba tribal style to wake up the worshippers after fasting during the Muslim holy feast of Ramadan |
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Axe |
fuses the Afro-Caribbean styles of reggae, marcha and calypso |
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Jit |
hard and fast percussive Zimbabwean dance music played on drums with guitar accompaniment |
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Jive |
popular form of south african music feauturing a lively and uninhibited variation of the jitterbug, a form of swing dance |
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Juju |
popular music style from Nigeria that relies kn the traditional Yoruba rhythms, where the instruments of Juju are more western in origin. |
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Kwassa Kwassa |
dance style begun in Zaire in the late 1980s, popularized by kanda bongo man. hips move back and forth while the arms move following the hips |
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Marabi |
south african three-chord township music of the 1930s-1960s which evolved into African Jazz. |
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Reggae |
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Salsa |
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Samba |
evolved into an African-Brazillian invention in the working class and slum districts of Rio de Janeiro |
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Soca |
modern Trinidadian and Tobago pop music combining "soul" and "calypso" music |
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Zouk |
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idiophones |
percussion instruments that are either strucked by a mallet or against each other |
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agogo |
oldest samba instrument |
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Djembe |
best known african drums |
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membranophones |
instruments which have vibrating animal membranes used in drums |
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Talking Drum |
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Lamellaphones |
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Chordophones |
instruments which produce sounds from the vibration of strings |
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Musical bow |
ancestor of all stringed instruments |
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Kora |
Africa's most sophisticated harp |
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Aerophones |
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