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African Popular Music

Popular Genres include: Afrobeat, Afropop, African Hip Hop and African Heavy Metal.

Most contemporary genres of African popular music build upon fusion with western popular music.

Many genres of popular music like blues, jazz, salsa, zouk, and rumba derive to varying degrees on musical traditions from Africa - from enslaved Africans in Slave Trade.

Chords include the I IV V IV (C, F, G, F) major harmonic progression influenced by Cuban music.

This Genre uses instruments like the Kalimba (Thumb Piano), Dondo (Talking Drum), Djembe, Balafon, Udu, etc.

Subsequently been adapted by newer genres like rock, and rhythm and blues.

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- Karnatak or Carnatic, Music is the traditional music of southern India.
- In contrast to Northern styles, it is more thoroughly oriented to the voice. Even when instruments are used a little they are played somewhat in imitation of singing generally within a vocal range.
- There are fewer instruments used in Karnataka than northern Indian music.
- The basic principles of raga (melody type) tala (cyclical rhythmic pattern) are the same in the south and north, but each musical tradition has its own form of it.
- Swara refers to a type of musical sound that is a single note, which defines a relative (higher or lower) position of a note, rather than a defined frequency. Swaras also refer to the solfege of Carnatic music, which consist of seven notes, "sa-ri-ga-ma-pa-da-ni" compared to Western do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti).'

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Latin American music encompasses a wide variety of styles. The music originates from places like the Caribbean and America. it includes genres like Samba, Salsa and Tango. The tempo of latin music are usually very expressive and upbeat

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Latin American music: bachata, bossa nova, merengue, rumba, salsa, samba, son, and tango. Percussion: conga, claves,

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Indian Music
Indian classical music a subcontinent of Indian music, has two major traditions: the North Indian classical music tradition is called Hindustani, while the South Indian expression is called Carnatic.

Instruments that tend to be used   in Indian music are Sitar, Sarod, Esraj, Tanpura and many more.

Modern Indian music tends to be a fussion with western pop.
They also tend to be fast-paced and upbeat and very easy to dance too.

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Latin American music:
-percussion instruments such as conga and claves are well known in Latin America
-Well known percussion instruments include conga and claves
-Both salsa and tango are common styles used
Music styles:
-rhumba-the tempo of the music is slow and expressive in a 4/4 time signature
-bomba-includes two beats in a bar
-merengue- groups of five which includes a dance in a 2/4 time signature
-bossa nova- dotted rhythms are featured

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Latin American Music:
- Classical Music
- Incorporates African music from slaves who were moved to the US
- From the 'romance' speaking countries of the US and the Caribbean
- Main rhythms such as Salsa, Merengue, Tango and Latin pop
^This is what people usually associate Latin American Music with
- Some types of Latin American music includes:
- combination of guitars played on beats of a very loud drum
- heavy percussion
- rich sounds made by some string instruments

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Indian music

Indian music includes microtones, notes, ornamentations, improvised melodies and rhythmic patterns used by percussion which gives an octave with 22 segments. These segments are about as long as 1/4 of a western tone. In classical Indian music it includes hindustani which goes from 13-14 century and Carnatic which extends from 15-16 century.

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Indian Music:
• Classical
uses traditional Indian instruments. A way to make it 'Indian' is to introduce 'raga' which is a type of improvisation into the piece as well as 'swaras' which is to use varying pitches and notes.
• Rock
can contain Indian Instruments to 'enhance' such as the sitar, and tampura.
• Pop
almost the same as Rock but has more upbeat and indian vocals

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It features bass drums like surdo, tenor drums, tamborines, timbales, amd agogo bells. Well known percussion instruments includes conga and claves

musical styles of latin america:

rhumba - slow tempo, expressive, 4/4 time signature

bomba - a call and response, only two beats in a bar

merengue - a dance with 2/4 time signature

bossa nova - texture less dense than samba, 2/4 time signature, highly dotted rhythms

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African music includes a wide variety of drums. Another characteristic of African music is that it includes rattles, bells and clappers (percussion instruments). The music is usually quite loud and most of the time vocals are included within the piece. Most of their music is passed down orally so it slightly changes over many generations.

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Latin America is originated from South America, Central American and parts of Spain and Portugal. They are mostly popular in the Caribbean and South America. Latin American styles are like Salsa and Tejano.

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- Northern Classical Indian music includes a lot of string instruments start (eg. sitar, sarod, tanpura)
- The music normally starts with instruments and builds up to a vocal climax and back to acoustics.
- The notes used are ranged both high and low.
- Rhythmic patterns by the percussion (tala) often signify important morals to a story.
-The music aims to explore the melodic and the emotional notes of the song.
- 500 ragas