Diaspara
The breaking up and scattering of people
The Maghrib
Area north of the sahara desert
African Work music
peoples primary goal is not artistic, rather music that helps coordinate worker efforts.
African Musical scale
7 note major scale (G A B C D E F# G)
African musical qualities
duple metered melodies

Western harmony

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polyrythm

repitition

improvisation

Cultural influences to African music
Europe

Asia

Americas

True or false

Participation is encouraged in the African music making proccess.

True
enculturation
the proccess of learning one’s own culture gradually during childhood
True or false

African music is primarily an artistic procces

False
True or False

African music is community based

True
Abekor
Music and Dance of the Ewe people

percussion section and chorus of voices. Bells, rattles and various drums.
Complex polyrhythm. War drumming originally, now funerals. Call and response. Details in text

Music-Culture
a group of people’s total involvement with music: ideas, actions, institutions,
artifacts.
Affect:
Music’s power to create an emotional impact.
Community
group that carries the traditions and norms of performance.
Performance
The act of performing music along the basis of agreed-on rules.
Dagbamba—luna
members of a hereditary clan of’ drummers. Ghana, Government
sponsoring preservation
gungon and luna—Talking drums
the drum’s sound closely imitates Dagbanli, the spoken
language of the Dagbamba. Lunsi “talk” and -sing” on their instruments. Details in text
Mbira
–thumb piano. 3:2 rhythms prevail
BaAka
Central African Republic
kumbengo
an instrumental ostinato
ostinato
a constantly repeating
pattern