Does West African music shared ideas across this continent?

Music

West African Music

Celebrating different traditions in her music videos

Featuring artist from different African countries

Using different African languages and dialects

Which is the following is NOT a way Yemi Alade breaks down barriers between nations using her music?

Which of the following is not a common instrument in West African music

A texture where a melody is accompanied by chords

When two or more rhythms are played at the same time that interweave

When two rhythms with different pulses are played at the same time

A griot is a leader, musician, story teller, historian who shares infomation using the oral tradition

A griot is a method of learning songs in West Africa

The name of the conversation you have when you visit the griot

Where art, ideas and culture are orally transmitted from generation to generation

What viral dance move came from Afrobeats?

Fusion music can only be fused with African music.

Fusion music combines two music styles together to create a new musical style.

Fusion music combines West African music with American funk and jazz.

What two genres does 'Old Town Road X' fuse?

Afrobeat fuses West African music traditions with American funk and jazz whereas afrobeats fuses the tradition with any other genre from around the world.

Afrobeat fuses West African music traditions with American funk and jazz whereas afrobeats fuses the tradition with R&B, pop and dancehall.

What is the difference between afrobeat and afrobeats?

Chose two styles and combine the musical features using the instruments at our disposal.

Play two audio clips from songs from different genres at the same time.

Take the lyrics from a song and combine them with the lyrics from another song.

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