WORLD MUSIC - AFRICAN MUSIC

WORLD MUSIC - AFRICAN MUSIC

The given the vastness of the contient , the traditional music of africa is historical ancient , rich and divers with the different regions and nations of africa having distinic musical traditions , the traditional music in much of the contienet is passed down orally and is not writen in sub saharian african music tradtion . it also frequency relies heavily on percussion instruments of every varitey , including xylophones , drums and tone producing instruments such as the mbira or thumb piano .the music and dance of the african diaspora , formed to varying degrees on african musical traditions . include american music and many caribian genres such as soca , calypso zouk latin amreican music genres , such as sumba rumba , salsa and other clave rythems genres , were also founded to varying degrees on the music of en slaved africans , and have in turn influcuned african popular music ..


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besiders vocalisations which users various techniques such as complex hard melsma and yodel a wide array of musical instruments are used african musical instruments include a wide range of drums . still. gongs ratles and double bells , differnets types of harps , and harp like instruments such as the kora as many kinds of xylophone and lamellphone such as the mbira and differnet types of wind instruments like flutes and trumpets additionally atring instruments are also used with the lute like oud serving as musical accompaniment in some areas ..

drums used in africans traditional music include talking drums , bou garabou  and djembe in west africa , water drums , n central africa  and west africa  , and various types of ngoma drums in central and southern africa other percussion instruments include many rattlesand sahkers , such as the koslka , rain stick bells and wood stick also africa has lots of other types of drums and lots of flutes . and many of instruments ...