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African Music

 

Africa is a very large and diverse continent with many musical styles and cultures across its different countries and regions. A variety of sounds of Africa have been added below to the player down below.

 

African music is:

 

  • part of everyday activities - everyone joins in clapping, singing and dancing to the music

  • part of rites and ceremonies where it is performed by specialist master drummers and court musicians

  • not normally written down but passed on through oral tradition

 

The influence of black African music is widespread. It came over to America with the African slaves and combined with the folk music of the European settlers to produce new styles of music such as blues, gospel and jazz. These went on to form the basis of pop music today.

 

The following links below link to pages about traditional African instruments. There are also pictures and you can hear the sounds the instruments make by pressing the play buttons. Enjoy!

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/music/world_music/music_africa1.shtml

When you have time to relax and listen to a whole host of catchy African tunes listen to the songs provided below on my Soundcloud playlist. I promise you will be dancing and singing along, the songs are just that catchy!

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