The Musical Genre Of Afrobeat

Fashion and aesthetics of African American are set of qualities in art, and specifically in this paper dance and music that come from African art. Robert Farris Thompson’s observations of art in central and western Africa and Kariamu Welsh Asante’s observations of dance in Zimbabwe identify common themes of African art. Method of dancing is another way of incorporation and valuing the entire body and bringing together the music and dance.

Music is an art form and source of power. Many forms of music reflect culture and society, as well as, containing political content and social message. Music as social change has been highlighted throughout the 20th century. In the 1960s the United States saw political and socially oriented folk music discussing the Vietnam War and other social issues. In Jamaica during the 1970s and 1980s reggae developed out of the Ghetto’s of Trench town and expressed the social unrest of the poor and the need to over-through the oppressors. The 1980’s brought the newest development in social and political music, the emergence of hip-hop and rap. This urban musical art form that was developed in New

Dance has always been the focal point in which Africans are able to let free through movements of emotion. In this essay I will discuss the history of African Dance and its importance to the African Culture. Also will be discussing the general information of African dance, the different types of African dance and the ones that I like the most. Dance in the African culture is something that cannot be taken advantage of in the African Culture because it holds such a strong meaningful moment at the time of any occasion.

1. How do the principal musical manifestations found in the sub-Saharan Africa reflect the collective community and encourage group participations?

The roots of modern american rock and roll music, are firmly planted in Africa. As the native Africans were torn apart from their family’s and brought to the new world their lives were immediately and drastically changed forever. Finding themselves immersed in a completely new environment with a foreign culture, they thankfully persevered and carried on with their own traditions and most importantly to this paper, musical ones. Most American slaves originated from Western and Central Africa. The West Africans carried a musical tradition rich with long melody lines, complicated rhythms (poly rhythmics) and stringed instruments CITATION. The West Africans music was also strongly integrated into their everyday lives. Songs were preformed for religious ceremonies and dances and music was often a

The African beats, the wind instruments and the rhythms that have been passed down through the

artists and the soul artists provided a rich resource for the succeeding style of music

Bebop Jazz known as Jazz music today have shared its roots with the various tradition of music such as the American, European and the African. The unique mesh of Bebop jazz cultural influences has made it a true American style in music. The music influence by the Bebop jazz has flowed through many aspects of the modern cultures of people, and this is the cornerstone of the 20th-century music. The first and the most prominent jazz music was on the African heritage that was kept alive by the slaves in South America. The music was mainly composed with an intention of comforting and helping the Africans cope with the harsh labor conditions and separation from their families. The paper will discuss the Bebop jazz music, their elements, and composition.

The topic for this research paper was black music. I claim that as black music changed so did their behaviors. In my investigation i first researched the jazz styles. In this part of my research I investigated jazz style music. Did you know louis armstrong made jazz famous.In the second part of my research I investigated society based music.

A small weakness in this article is that the author does not give a lot of information on what might have caused the Afro-Americans to not bring a lot of their knowledge in their cultures over to America and how it affects society today. I think this author is very reliable because they used examples and talked a lot about the different topics throughout the article. The motivation of this author was to talk about how people are now looking at African and Afro-American music to gain more knowledge in the music world. Also, another motivation was to talk about the different types of music from

Rap, hip hop, jazz, gospel and spirituals are all extremely influential genres toward popular music today, especially in America. Such musical genres, which are derived from African music traditions, were not widely accepted until very recently in history. This process of acceptance is stretched out through several centuries and it dates back to the era of Atlantic slave trade which began in the 16th century. Even though African culture is severely suppressed in America during those times, the traditions found various means to assimilate into the European-American ways through multiple channels, one of which, is music. How has music from Africa influenced Western music in America due to the trans-Atlantic slave trade from 16th-19th century, and what were the social repercussions of such cultural hybridization which may have rippled to even the modern day? Countless slaves were shipped across the Atlantic to the New World for such cause. Due to the sheer number of slave of African origin, over the centuries, some of their traditions, including music, has found

The purpose of this paper is to simply explore the world music aspects of the song “Jai-Ho” a piece that combines music styles from around the world containing Western and non-Western musical aspects. The reason I chose this song as my topic is because it is a popular song in America although it does contain many different cultural influences. Growing up I have been exposed to Rap, R&B, and Pop music, sometimes even a combination of all three. This music is what I prefer the most out of the vast majority of labels given to describe songs’ musical aspects. About seven years ago, I remember hearing the song “Jai-Ho” coming from the speakers of my television as my dad watched the movie “Slum Dog Millionaire” I remember the fast pace rhythm, the

In this course we have learned about all of the different cultures and their musical traditions. My favorite so far has had to be the west African music culture. They have a variety of different music, instruments, and dances to contribute to the reasons I liked this music culture so much. So, I have taken it upon myself to further my research on this particular musical group. I will compare and contrast a variety of different videos from the west African music culture and I will analyze how they connect to this culture.

Scholars have attempted to define music, and to be quite honest, it will be a huge challenge to try to weave a definition around the art that is music, because it is beyond definition. However, for the purposes of this work, we shall adopt the definition by Aluede & Eregare (2009), not because the definition is, in itself, complete, but because it captures the very essence of what we look for in the definition of music. Music, according to Aluede & Aregare (2009), is not only an organization of sound but also a symbolic expression of a social and cultural organization, which reflects the values, past and present ways of life of human beings. Also, Jones (1975), cited in Amana and Onogu (2015), defines music as “a language which encodes emotions, aspirations and people’s goals in autonomous and self-expressive arts forms.” These definitions are important in understanding music, because they highlight the fact that music does not only appeal to the feel-good emotion, it is not only used for entertainment; it is a valid form of social expression and this underscores the centrality of music in African socio-cultural life.

Music is known to be a universal language and every human culture has music, just as each has language. At the same time, both music and linguistic systems vary widely from culture to culture which is a universal feature of the human experience. Melody can contribute to the expression of emotion in music. Thus, giving Jamaica full credit for ska music, which began organically in Kingston, Jamaica as a music of the people, schools, streets, studios, dance halls and sound systems. This lead to an orchestrated push to use ska as a way to help develop Jamaica’s tourist industry and help stable the economy. In the early 1960s, ska was the dominant music genre of Jamaica, and we can thank the Alpha School for giving us musicians.