MUSIC
Across
- 3. a name given to a keyboard style similar to American ragtime and blues with roots of African tradition originated in the 1920s.
- 4. a musical style developed in the late 1930 from Nigerian people of Yoruba. This style was used during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan to wake the worshippers after fasting.
- 5. a popular style of music from Nigeria that derives from traditional Yoruba percussion. It is characterized by the use of the African talking drums, agogo, sekere, bata, omelet along with other western instruments such as the guitars, bass, keyboards, and drums that can be performed in any occasion, events, and concerts.
- 6. a popular style of music fused with Afro-Carribean styles of Marcha, Reggae, and Calypso
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- 1. a dance style which begun in Zaire and developed by Kanda Bongo Man in the late 1980s and early 1990s
- 2. a popular style of Zimbabwean dance music that features quick and fast rhythm played on drums and accompanied by a guitar.
- 4. combines West African musical styles such as Yoruba music, jazz, highlife, funk rhythms, and fused with African percussion and vocal styles.
- 5. a lively and uninhibited variation of the Jitterbug (a form of Swing dance) which was originated in the United States in the early 1930s from African-Americans.