Music of the African Diaspora
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Week 2: West African bell patterns
Preliminary exercises in African Drumming
Focus questions:
1. What is the "meter"
2. What "African" elements are present (from last week's concepts)?
3. Guess what country this is from
4. Identify the instruments being played
5. What language is this?
1. What is the "meter"
2. What "African" elements are present (from last week's concepts)?
3. Guess what country this is from
4. Identify the instruments being played
5. What language is this?
Begin at 2'50"
Reading Assignments
Agawu, Kofi. “The Rhythmic Structure of West African Music.” The Journal
of Musicology 5, no. 3 (Summer, 1987): 400-418.
Omojola, Bode. “Black Diasporic Encounters: A Study of the Music of Fela Sowande,” in Black Music Research Journal, Vol. 27, No. 2 (Fall, 2007), pp. 141-170.
of Musicology 5, no. 3 (Summer, 1987): 400-418.
Omojola, Bode. “Black Diasporic Encounters: A Study of the Music of Fela Sowande,” in Black Music Research Journal, Vol. 27, No. 2 (Fall, 2007), pp. 141-170.