African Music

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There are hundred types of music, some music are most popular in the world like Jazz, race, and rock etc. African music has wide spectrum from various regions and nations. The music in Africa is differed based on the area like North Africa, east Africa and south as well as south Africa. You can see traditional music from the Sahara desert. In north Africa the music influence by Arabic and Islamic as well as sub Sahara. In the western, southern and central African region, you can see more harmony. It is play with drum.

Drum is most important instruments in African music while other instruments are gong-gong and balafon. Some instrument like piano is called sanza.

The African music perform by tribe at different region has display their social life and traditional value of the people. African tribes normally perform music at various occasion and time to deliver some messages. Music is normally performed at the night time when all tribes from specific area to overcome the tiredness and it helps to build up relations. Some time special African music performs to praise.

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... all African countries, music is a part life for the African people. The African people normally uses two main instruments such as drums and different vocal sounds. With the drum beats, the African people are dancing with more energy and deep emotions.

Music is the part and parcel for the people in Africa. The African music is also categories on the bases of the age, sex and community as well as status. Like in other countries, not all people enter into the circle and make music. It has proper structure. At the time of dance the postures are different in men and women. Usually women perform dance through bending their body and from knee and hold their hand parallel for making balance. The men perform dance in differently than the women. They usually jump and move their legs very fast unlike women. The drummer takes their position into middle and the spectators are sitting around the music location.

The African music is generally of two dimensional; in tribe they follow the three beats of the drum. Some time it plays in cross-rhythms with the instruments. To be more perfect, clever movement of the hips is refocused in the Kalabari in Nigeria. Of course present African music moves with their roots and some short of changes occur in the African music.

You can see the professional touches in most of the African music and now with the new version all African music are crosses the boundaries and celebrated in most of the countries in different occasions.

The African folk music turn to occasions and now in Africa and other countries enjoys birthday party, wedding and marriages and welcome guest etc. In many hotels and resorts, special African music party performs music on the professional way. The dresses and drums are same but now atmosphere get changes

The new form of music gets more acceptances in the teenagers in the night club. Africa, USA and European countries now ready to kick off with the African music to enjoy their night. Such types of shifts in music can changed the basic rules of music. With the change in music, it will change subject, and composition. The Traveling Musicians, explores the African music into global Diaspora.