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Music in the Sub-Saharan Africa
By: Ana Hernandez Breanna Queiro, and Brianna Sanchez
Broad Information:
What is it?
The Music:
Sub-Saharan Africa holds traditional ways of life, but is so culturally and environmentally diverse.
This area has more than 1,000 languages, thousands of different customs and religions.
The people devote themselves mostly to agriculture, and they also live in small villages.
The music is very diverse also, it has complex rythyms and polyrythms.
Usually there is a soloist and then a responding chorus.
This music has been influencial in many ways, the musical style is mainly influenced by the Arabian culture.
The music has affected other parts of Africa, in a positive way. Northern Africa most! Northern Africa focuses their music on the Sub-Saharan musical style and has been spreading all over the world.
Sub-Saharan Africa is south of the
Sahara Desert.
This area includes countries such as Nigeria, Angola, Ghana, Kenya,
Chad, Zimbabwe, Niger, Madagascar, and many more countries!
Ompeh
Let's learn a song?
Instruments:
E a woyaa woyaa
Daa wo asi wo agwa e
Asaase e
Eba anadwo kakra
Wo asi wo agwa e
A woyaa woyaa
E wo asi wo agwa e
Asaase e
Eba anadwo kakra
Wo asi wo agwa
Mere wuo o
Mere wuo o
A woyaa woyaa
Krohinko sane e
Kowa e
Owuo e, sane e, Kowa e
A woyaa Tokoraba wose wo ba
Saman wa
Ompeh is a song from the centeral region of Ghana.
It is a mixture of complex polyrythms,
purcussive sounds, and is used as a call and response pattern.
Sub-Sahara has a wide variety of musical instruments.
Main ones such as,
-Drums
-Rattles
-Xylophones
-Body Instruments
-Hand claps
-Chest and thigh slaps
-Stomping of the feet
Meaning of the Song?
Sources Cited:
https://www.inkling.com
https://www.youtube.com
We go, we go,
They've set up chairs daily,
Earth,
When night falls,
They've set the chairs,
We go, we go,
They've set the chairs,
Earth,
When night falls,
They've set the chairs,
I'm dying.
I'm dying,
We go, we go
We swing back and forth,
Kowa e
Death, problem, Kowa e
We are going, Tokoraba people say they are here,
The land of the dead is far.