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By Angelica Gutierrez, Timal Brooks, Karla Hernandez, and Nicole Jenkins
By Angelica Gutierrez, Timal Brooks, Karla Hernandez, and Nicole Jenkins
- The countries identified as Sub Saharan Africa are all countries excluding Algeria, Djibouti, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Somalia, Sudan and Tunisia.
- This presentation will focus on music from different regions of Africa and follow the timeline to curent African music.
-Most of the music in Africa derived from spiritual experience
-In Sub-Saharan Africa, the instruments that can be used have complex melodic and rhythm patterns.
-A full performance would usually include voice, instruments, and dance.
- Polyrhythm is a distinct characteristic of traditional and contemporary music
-Melodies are on a penatonic five-tone scale
Early African music was archeological. This particular painting represented a dance performance in Africa.
Gankogui
Gyil
Mbira
Musical Bow
The Sub-Saharan music started with music being created to worship in people’s religions. People wanted to express themselves and made dances which, is a form of art expression. People had believed that when they dance and sing that the gods would react to their performance. This means that the music that was created was taken very seriously. According to an article from the Encyclopedia, “Thus the bull-roarer (or thunder stick) is used in some societies to represent the voice of the ancestor (for example, among the Dogon of Mali) or the voice of a god (such as Oro of the Yoruba of Nigeria).” These instruments are examples of Sub-Saharan African people who associated the instruments with spiritual beings.
Zulu Dancers