World Music and Drumming

European Powers

Slave Trade out of Africa

Hand Clap Ensemble

Hambone

● Kora○ 21-stringed harp

Instruments of Africa

Instruments of Africa-ngoma: African term for a drum

● Djembe○ from West Africa

○ played with your

hands

Instruments of Africa

● Ewe Tribe○ many instruments!

Instruments of Africa

● Kroboto Drum○ from the Ewe tribe

○ played by a Master

Drummer

○ played with 2

wooden sticks

Instruments of Africa

● Axatse (rattle)

○ from the Ewe

tribe

○ dried gourd with

a beaded net

attached

○ several ways to

play it!

Instruments of Africa

● Atoke Bell○ from the Ewe tribe

○ many sizes

○ made of iron

○ “the backbone of

African music”

○ must play a steady

beat without any

errors

Instruments of Africa

● Talking Drum (Dondo)

○ mimics speech

patterns

○ origins from the

Yoruba people of the

Ghana Empire

Instruments of Africa

● Apentemma

○ from the Ashanti

people

○ goblet-shaped

○ played with one stick

and a hand

○ used to keep an

underlying rhythm

Instruments of Africa

African Highlife● originated in Ghana

● type of dance music

● grew out of

traditional Ghanian

music and was

influenced by jazz

● African hiplife

(Highlife + Hip Hop)