Learning Task 6: Identify the following. Write your answers in your
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1. The musical style is a highly rhythmic type of music that usually includes
rap. .
2. It is used to describe fusion of Western African and Black American
music.
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3. It is composed of a Western-style melodic-harmonic base with African
sounds and characteristics, American pop and rock music mannerisms,
and a preference for a loud volume in the bass.
4. Traditionally, it pertains to melodies and songs of the common people
handed down from one generation to the next.
5. Its musical characteristics are simple tune, usually
usually sung solo
and accompanied by a guitar, a banjo, or occasional whistling.
6. The tempo varied from 30 to 40 bars per minute and had a simple duple
meter with regular 4-bar phrases.
7. It first surfaced in the African state of Pernambuco, combining the strong
rhythm of African percussion instruments with Portuguese melodies.
8. It is a hard and fast percussive Zimbabwean dance music played on drum
with guitar accompaniment, and influenced by mbira-based guitar styles.

-is a music genre which involves the combination of elements of West African musical styles such as fuji music and highlife with American jazz and later soul and funk influences, with a focus on chanted vocals, complex intersecting rhythms, and percussion.

3.Reggae

4. Folk Music

-Essentially this means any type of music that springs from the common people and is passed down from one generation to the next, largely by oral means, often being closely bound up with a particular culture or group of people.

5. Country and Western Music

6. Foxtrot

7. Maracatu

-first surfaced in the African state of Pernambuco, combining the strong rhythms of African percussion instruments with Portuguese melodies.

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