African Music & Dance Mrs. Tucker 7th Grade World History/Honors Cobalt Institute of Math and Science

African Music & Dance Music was used to express feelings or to get through everyday tasks like working in the field Played a part in all aspects of African life They relied on music to remind them of their homeland, thus creating the blues, ragtime, gospel, jazz, rock and roll and more recently, rap. Africans believed dance allowed the spirts to express themselves, so they used it to celebrate things like birth and death Musical instruments such as drums, whistles, horns, flutes, or banjos were used to keep the beat. In African songs, a singer calls out a line, and then the other singers repeat it