Chavez, Julius Caezar C

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Afrobeat is a term used to describe the fusion of West African with black American music.
Apala (Akpala) is a musical genre from Nigeria in the Yoruba tribal style to wake up the
worshippers after fasting during the Muslim holy feast of Ramadan. Percussion instrumentation
includes the rattle (sekere), thumb piano (agidigbo), bell (agogo), and two or three talking drums.
Axe is a popular musical genre from Salvador, Bahia, and Brazil. It fuses the AfroCaribbean
styles of the marcha, reggae, and calypso.
Jit is a hard and fast percussive Zimbabwean dance music played on drums with guitar
accompaniment, influenced by mbira-based guitar styles.
Jive is a popular form of South African music featuring a lively and uninhibited variation of the
jitterbug, a form of swing dance.
Juju is a popular music style from Nigeria that relies on the traditional Yoruba rhythms, where
the instruments in Juju are more Western in origin. A drum kit, keyboard, pedal steel guitar, and
accordion are used along with the traditional dun-dun (talking drum or squeeze drum).
Kwassa Kwassa is a dance style begun in Zaire in the late 1980s, popularized by Kanda Bongo
Man. In this dance style, the hips move back and forth while the arms move following the hips.
Marabi is a South African three-chord township music of the 1930s-1960s which evolved into
African Jazz. Possessing a keyboard style combining American jazz, ragtime and blues with
African roots, it is characterized by simple chords in varying vamping patterns and repetitive
harmony over an extended period of time to allow the dancers more time on the dance floor.