Mapeh

Music
 MUSIC OF AFRICA Music has always been an important part in the daily life of theAfrican, whether
for work, religion, ceremonies, or even communication. Singing, dancing, hand clapping and the beating
of drums are essential to many African ceremonies, including those for birth, death, initiation, marriage,
and funerals.
Traditional Music of Africa
 Apala (Akpala) - It is a musical genre from Nigeria in the Yoruba tribal style to wake up the
worshippers after fasting during the Muslim holy feast of Ramadan.
 Axe - It is a popular musical genre from Salvador, Bahia, and Brazil. It fuses the Afro-Caribbean styles
of marcha, reggae, and calypso.
 Jit - It is a hard and fast percussive Zimbabwean dance music played on drums with guitar
accompaniment influenced by mbira-based guitar styles.
 Kwassa Kwassa – It is a music style that begun in Zaire in the late 1980s popularized by Kanda Bongo
Man. In this dance style, the hips move back and forth while the arms move following the hips
Popular Latin American Music
 Samba - It is a dance form of African origin around 1838 which evolved into an African-Brazilian
invention in the working class and slum districts of Rio de Janeiro.
 Son – It is a fusion of the popular music or canciones (songs) of Spain and the African rumba rhythms
of Bantu origin. Originating in Cuba, it is usually played with the guitar, contrabass, bongos, maracas,
and claves.
 Salsa – It is a social dance with marked influences from Cuba and Puerto Rico that started in New York
in the mid 1970s.
 Reggae - It is an urban popular music and dance style that originated in Jamaica in the mid1960s. It is
instantly recognizable from the counterpoint between the bass and drum downbeat and the offbeat
rhythm section. Bob Marley is the bestknown proponent of reggae who hails from Jamaica.
 Cumbia – It is a popular African courtship dance with European and African instrumentation and
characteristics, originating in Panama and Colombia. It contains varying rhythmic meters
Traditional Instruments of Africa
 Idiophones – Sound is produced by the body of the instrument vibrating.
 Membranophones – Sound is produced by the vibration of a tightly stretched membrane.
 Lamellaphone – Sound is produced by the vibration of tongues of metal, wood or other material.
 Chordophones – Sound is produced by the vibration of a string or strings that are stretched between
fixed points.
 Aerophones – Sound is produced through the vibration of air.


Arts
 Technology-based art is essentially computer-generated and/or manipulated. There were questions as to
whether it was, in fact, “true art” since it made use of electronic and mechanical devices, rather than the
artist’s own hand, to produce the images and effects. Within a few years, however, there was a general
acceptance of digital art as an exciting and thought-provoking form of modern art. Exhibits of computer
art became highly popular and critically acclaimed, as digital artists or computer art masters or
“superstars” came to the fore in Europe, Russia, and the United States
 Digital painting is a method of creating an artwork using a computer
 Graphical imaging, the emphasis is on the manipulation of created images in order to achieve special
effects through rotating, stretching, blurring, resizing, twirling, and other changes to the original image
 Pixlr – a powerful, free online image editor
 Pic Collage – allows you to make collages incorporating photos, stickers, text, and frames
 Photo Grid – a downloadable application for android phones that allows you to make collages out of
images from your photo gallery
 Flipagram – a downloadable application that allows you to ‘bring your photos to life’ in short videos set
to music of your choice
 Picsart – a free photo editor and drawing application, as well as a social network for you to share your
art with others