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9 Cards in this Set
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Geographic regions of African music
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the Maghrib is north of the Sahara and the south is called sub-Saharan Africa
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Griot/jali
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professional musicians that are responsible for retelling stories
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Characteristics of Agbekor
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a traditional war dance from the ewe people, includes drinking called the libation, contains different section that go at different speeds, call-and-response, polyrhythm, many instruments including rattles and drums some which are termed “talking drums”
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Call and response
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one singer utters lexical text and the others answer with a vocable pattern that repeats
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Kora
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1/1 scale model of african genitalia
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Mbira
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plucked idiophone/lamellophone, from the shona people
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Enculturation
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process of learning one’s own culture gradually during childhood
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Chimurenga
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a Zimbabwean popular music genre coined by Thomas Mapfumo
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Elements of African popular music
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Percussion, guitars, etc.
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