GRADE 10

QUARTER 2 MUSIC 10 LESSON 1

Learning Competency:
•Describes the historical and
cultural background of Afro-
Latin American and popular
music; (MU10APIIa-g-2)
 Let’s Recall!
Can you identify the musical styles of the following
musicians during the 20th Century Music?

Claude Arnold Edgard Igor

John Cage
Debussy Schoenberg Varèse Stravinsky
CODE-DECODE!
NFHRX LU
ZUIRXZ
Clue:
Z=A
What do you already know?
Direction: Respond to each
item using the EMOJIES…

emoji if the statement

says about African music,

emoji if it’s not.

1. One of the characteristics of
African music is in
conversational form.
2. Percussion instruments were
the least used musical
instruments in Afro-Latin
American music.
3. Popular music has a good
rhythm, a catchy melody and
easy to remember and hard to
sing along.
4. Vocal forms of African
music and Latin American
music played an important role
in the development of popular
music.
5. Singing, dancing, hand
clapping and the beating of
drums are essential to many
African ceremonies.
NATURE OF AFRO-
LATIN AMERICAN
MUSIC
Traditional African Music
• Music has always play an important role in the
daily lives of Africans. It can be for work,
religion, ceremonies, or even communication.
• For the African ceremonies, singing, dancing,
clapping, and beating of drums have essential
roles even in religious expressions and political
events.
• The wide influence of African music spread
throughout the world. It permeated contemporary
American, Latin American, and European styles.
Music of Africa
• African music is a result of the collective
cultural and musical variety of more than 50
ethnic divisions of the continent.
• The organization of this vast continent is a
colonial legacy from European rule of different
nations up to the 19th century, enabling it to
incorporate its music with language,
environment, political development,
immigration, and cultural diversity
Music of Africa
• In the particular subject of research are its
rhythmic structures and spiritual characteristic
that have led to the birth of jazz forms.

Afrobeat
A term used to describe the fusion of
West African with Black American
music.
STYLES AND
GENRES
Apala (Akpala)
• a musical genre from Nigeria in the Yoruba
tribal style – used to wake up worshippers after
fasting during the Muslim holy feast of
Ramadan.
Axe
• a popular musical genre from Salvador, Bahia
and Brazil. It fuses the Afro-Caribbean styles
of the marcha, reggae and calypso played by
the carnival bands.
Jit
• A hard and fast percussive Zimbabwean dance
music played on drums with guitar
accompaniment influenced by mbira-based
guitar styles.
Jive
• A popular form of South African music
featuring a lively and uninhibited variation o
jitterbug, a form of swing dance.
Juju
• A popular music style from Nigeria that relies
on the Traditional Yoruba rhythms where the
instruments are more Western in origin.
Kwassa Kwassa
• A dance style begun in Zaire in the late 1980s,
popularized by Kanda Bongo Man. This dance
styles hip move back and forth while the arms
follow the hip movement.
Marabi
• A South African three-chord township music
of 1930s-1960s which evolved into African
jazz.
Afro-Latin Music
• The Latin American music is the product of three
major influences of indigenous Spanish,
Portuguese and Africa.
• It pertains to Latin music because of the impact
on the countries colonized by Spain and Portugal,
spanning in various areas.
• Because of the interracial relationship and
migration, the abovementioned countries also
became populated by five major ancestral groups.
STYLES AND
GENRES
Reggae
• A Jamaican musical style that was strongly
influenced by the island’s traditional mento
music as well as by Calypso, African music,
American Jaz and Rhythm and Blues.
Salsa
• Music is Cuban, Puerto Rican and Colombian
dance music comprises musical genres
including Cuban son montuno, guaracha,
chachacha, mambo and bolero.
Samba
• A Brazilian musical genre and dance style. Its
roots can be traced to Africa via West African
slave trade and African religious traditions in
Angola ad Congo.
Soca
• Also known as the soul of Calypso. It
originated as a fusion of Calypso with Indian
rhythms thus combining the musical traditions
of the two major ethnic groups of Trinidad and
Tobago.
Were
• A Muslim music often performed as a wake-up
call for early breakfast and prayers during
Ramadan celebrations.
Zouk
• A fast, carnival-like rhythmic music from the
Creole slang word “party”. It originated in the
Caribbean Islands of Guadaloupe and
Martinique and was popularized in the 1980s.
ACTIVITY
Direction:
Identify the following
musical styles if it’s
TRADITIONAL AFRICAN
MUSIC or AFRO-LATIN
MUSIC
1.Apala
2.Salsa
3.Samba
4.Kwassa Kwassa
5.Jive
6.Axe
7.Reggae
8.Marabi
9.Zouk
10.Juju
QUESTIONS TO PONDER:
1. Are you familiar to any of the musical
styles of Afro-Latin America?
2. Why do you think this music are
important to them?
3. Among the type of African music,
which evolved into dance forms that
remain popular today?
 Choose from the box below the Five (5) characteristics that described Afro-Latin
American Music.

• Music and dance are important to religious expression and political events.
• The birth of Jazz forms.
• It consists of musical pieces of the 20th century.
• Music is used in communication.
• Opera was prominent in most performances.
• Beating of drums are essential to Africa ceremonies.
• Musical forms were used in Broadways and other Musical plays.
• Afrobeat is the fusion of West African and black American music.
 “Learning is not attained by
chance, it must be sought for
with ardor and attended to
with diligence.”

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