Across
- 4. Percussion instruments that are either struck with a mallet or against one another.
- 6. A popular music genre of the 1950’s and 1960’s. It originated in the United States. It combines elements of African- American gospel music, rhythm and blues, and often jazz.
- 11. A popular musical genre from Salvador, of Bahia in Brazil. It fuses the Afro-Caribbean styles of the marcha, reggae, and calypso.
- 12. a lively and uninhibited variation of the jitterbug, a form of swing dance.
- 13. A ballroom dance that originated in Cuba in 1953, derived from the mambo and its characteristics.
Down
- 1. A stylized, highly rhythmic type of music that usually (but not always) includes portions of rhythmically chanted words called “rap.”
- 2. A popular form of South African music
- 3. A smooth, progressive dance characterized by long, continuous flowing movements across the dance floor. It is danced to big band (usually vocal) music.
- 5. A musical form of the late 19th century that has had deep roots in African- American communities. These communities are located in the so-called “Deep South” of the United States.
- 7. A hard and fast percussive Zimbabwean dance music played on drums with guitar accompaniment, influenced by mbira-based guitar styles.
- 8. A music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s.
- 9. It originated as an expressive folksong in narrative verse with text dealing typically about love
- 10. A style of pop music intended mainly for dancing to, typically soul-influenced and melodic with a regular bass beat, popular particularly in the late 1970s.
