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

2. 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