AFRICAN MUSIC

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Across
  1. 2. use to wake up the worshippers after fasting during the Muslim holy feast of Ramadan.
  2. 4. fusion of West African with Black American music.
  3. 5. In this dance style, the hips move back and forth while the arms move following the hips.
  4. 9. a word used to describe African music
  5. 12. It is a hard and fast percussive Zimbabwean dance music played on drums with guitar accompaniment
  6. 13. It is a popular music style from Nigeria that relies on the traditional Yoruba rhythms.
  7. 14. It is characterized by simple chords in varying vamping patterns and repetitive harmony over an extended period.
Down
  1. 1. The slaves used to sing these songs while simultaneously doing all their tasks in a day.
  2. 3. It combines elements of African-American gospel music, rhythm and blues, and often jazz.
  3. 6. featuring a lively and uninhibited variation of the jitterbug, a form of swing dance.
  4. 7. This form of music is being paraded along the streets by up to 100 participants.
  5. 8. It became a means of imparting Christian values and a way of venting their hardships as slaves.
  6. 10. a place with jungles, deserts, wild animals, and is blazingly hot
  7. 11. The slaves and their descendants used to sing these as they work in the fields.
  8. 15. It fuses the Afro-Caribbean styles of marcha, reggae, and calypso.