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5H Fusions – part 3 – Unit 5: World Music

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♫ 5H Fusions – part 3 ♫Unit 5: World Music



Learning objectives


To transfer knowledge from popular music to understand the influence of traditional African music on Afro-Caribbean musical styles and blues.


African fusions


Highlife


Afro-pop

Afro-pop music is not the same as European or American pop music. Afro-pop is a large and varied genre, with many artists being influenced by many styles.

One of Africa’s most famous Afro-pop artists is Salif Keita. His music fuses traditional Islamic and African music with European and North and South American styles.

Keita was born into the Malian royal family, so becoming a

musician was seen as beneath his station. However, Keita has

albinism, and was cast out by his family.


Mbalax

♫ Listen to any track by Youssou N’Dour and identify the features

which you think are from traditional Senegalese culture. ♫

In Senegal there is a particular type of pop music, known as mbalax. Mbalax is a mix of traditional griot percussion and praise-singing with Afro-Cuban styles.

Youssou N’Dour is a Senegalese musician of griot origin, so he learnt the traditional music from a young age. He then became involved in the Afro-Cuban music scene and began to make mbalax records. He has become world-famous for his music.


Classical African

♫ Choose one aspect of African music, classical

music and UK or US pop music.

Experiment with combining them. ♫

African music: Two balafons pattern using pentatonic scale

Classical music: Rondo form, clarinet and violin

UK pop music: Funk drum beat and electric guitar riff

Minimalist composer Steve Reich took some features of African drumming and used them in music for Western instruments. In ‘Drumming’, he uses nine percussion instruments, female voices and piccolo.

Traditional African music has also been fused with classical music. Ethnomusicologist David Fanshawe fused a Latin Mass for choir and orchestra with African music for ‘African Sanctus’.


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