World Music
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22 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Ewe Culture | -Very proud people with proud tradition of heroism in battle -known as "Fierce Warriors" - From Togo Area .. defeated many tyrannical kings to get there |
| Ewe Song and Meaning | Agbekor - means "Clear Life", resolution to hardship |
| 3 Meanings of Agbekor | 1. originally taken from hunters using to catch game, song and dance 2. came from use of battle prep 3. now used for funerals and important royalty celebrations |
| Reason for Agbekor | communicate with ancestral spirits, libations pour into ground to do so |
| Ewe Culture Instruments | four drums, bell, gourd rattles |
| Texture of Ewe Music | Polyphonic -- call response singing |
| Dagbamba Culture - Drummer | born into a line of royalty, that is how one became a drummer |
| "Ferocious Bill" - Dagbamba | taunting opponent, wild calls with tempting drum beat, vocalist and lunga drummer |
| Shona Culture-Location | Zimbabwe |
| "Cutting Branches for Shelter" | song that uses mbire -> bottle capes, highly responsible for bring spirits into plains |
| "Be Ashamed" - Who made this music? | Mapfuma's Chimurange Music |
| "Be Ashamed" - meaning | Political message, talking about people who were being colonized under many unfair conditions. he is saying the people should be outraged for this situation and they should stand up for what is right. |
| BaAka Culture Location | Tropical Central Africa |
| "Mabo" - BaAka Culture, significance | song and dance associated with net hunting. compared to EWE culture, there is only one drum |
| Texture of "Mabo" | Vocal Polyphony with yodeling sounds |
| Significance of the Forest to the BaAka | it is seen as divine --- God is everywhere in nature |
| Define Maghrib | the upper part of Africa |
| Define Sub-Saharan | Lower part of africa .. below the sahara |
| Define Libation | the giving of alcohol to someone to please them, in most cases, ancestors. they are given to the trees when they are sacrificed to become a drum. The alcohol is poured on the ground as means of communication to ancestors |
| Define Call-Response | standard vocal format of African Music |
| Define Colonization | foreign county entered another imposing their own stanard --- evident with Shona and Mapfuma's music "Be Ashamed" |
| Define Polyphonic | text that is comprised on multiple parts all of equal importance |
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