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World Music: Song 1 Cuba a Musical Stew: Guantanamera CUBA: A MUSICAL STEW Located 90 mile south of Florida, Cuba is a long, large island that sits between the Gulf Of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. Like the United States, people from all over the world have come to Cuba to live. Native Americans called the Taino and Ciboney people were the first people to live on the island. The Spanish arrived in Cuba in the early 1500s and ruled the island for more than 300 years. Most people in Cuba still speak Spanish today. You can hear sounds of the Spanish in the melodies and instruments of Cuban Music, too. A Little Bit of Africa The influence of Africa is strongly felt in Cuban life and its music. Over 400,000 Africans were brought to Cuba by the 1800s to work on sugar plantations. They brought with them pieces of their culture, including their musical traditions. You can hear them in the fiery rhythms and cool percussion instruments like the bata drum ensemble. There are three bata drums: okonkolo (the smallest), itotele (the middle drum), and iya (the leader). By playing together, they create complex patterns. The iya even “talks” to the other drums with special rhythms! Cubans Have Style One beautiful music style in Cuba is the son. Like the blues in the United States, the son is very important in Cuba. It is a slow, proud style that features piano, bass, guitar, trombone, trumpet, congas, and one or more singers. Recently, the Buena Vista social Club helped make this style one of the most popular Cuban Styles again. Some of the other musical styles that developed in Cuba are the cha cha cha, the rumba (which uses call and response form commonly used in Africa) and the mambo (a dance style popularized in the 1940s and 1950s). Afro-Cuban jazz is Cuba’s unique jazz style. “Guantanamera” is a very popular folk song in Cuba. At one time or antoher, nearly every Cuban musician has sung or played “Guantanamera.” The person who recorded one of the most famous versions is Celia Cruz. She is probably Cuba’s most famous singer. Once you hear her sweet, smoky voice, you’ll know why Cubans think she is incredible. It’s Everywhere! Cuban music has influenced musicians all over the world. There is rumba in Africa and you can even dance the cha cha cha in Japan. Leonard Bernstein even used the mambo for a dance sequence in his Broadway musical, “West Side Story”. Salsa, the wildly popular Latin American dance style, developed in New York from a mix of Cuban and Puerto Rican music. The music of Cuba enters your ears, goes right through your heart, and down to your feet. It’s a musical stew that will never have you hungry again! Page #1 World Music: Song 1 Cuba a Musical Stew: Guantanamera Instrument of the Guiro Latin Conga Latin Percussion Claves Trumpet Electric Guitar Bass Guitar Piano Page #2 ZIMBABEW: A SOUND SAFARI Here’s an extra credit question: How many countries in Africa can you name? There’s Egypt, and Kenya. How about Nigeria? Well guess what? There are fifty-three countries in Africa. If you can name them all, you are a super genius! Sometimes people think of Africa as one place that looks and sounds the same everywhere you go. Actually, it is a huge continent full of many different people and places. For example, Africa has the biggest desert in the world-the Sahara. But, it also has one of the biggest rainforests in the world, too. There are huge, crowded cities and small, friendly villages. IN each country, there are many different groups of people. Each one has their own language, foods, games, clothes, music, and much more. Let’s look at one country in Africa and see what we can discover. Sounds of Zimbabwe Zimbabwe is a country in the middle of southern Africa. It is a very beautiful country with sunny blue skies most of the year. Vicotria Falls, the largest waterfall in the world, is in Zimbabwe. The mist from the falls can rise over one mile high in the air! If you travel in Zimbabwe, you hear music everywhere you go. Zimbabweans sing, play instruments, and listen to the radio. They listen to music in their car, at concerts, and just hanging out at home. Music is a part of birthdays, weddings, and parties. Many kids in Zimbabwe begin to sing as soon as they can talk. If they choose, they can start to learn how to play instruments even before they being going to school. Super Styles There are many different styles of music in Zimnbabwe, such as jit, chimurenga, and makwaya. Jit (jeet) has upbeat rhythms with fast guitar melodies that make you want ot move your feet. Chimurenga (chee-moo-RAIN-gah) mixes guitars and traditional instruments to create musical waterfalls of sound. Makwaya (mah-KWAH- yah) has beautiful vocal harmonies like gospel music. Zimbabweans like music from outside their country, too. If you turn on the radio in Zimbabwe hyou might hear songs by singer Beyonce or even country singer Tim McGraw. Many people in Zimbabwe love rap music, too. Musicians usually rap in Shona or Ndebele. These are two languages spoken in Zimbabwe. The mbira (em-BEE-rah) is a very special instrument in Zimbabwe. Mbiras are made of wood with flat metal keys attached. To play a mbira You pluck the flat metal keys with your thumbs, and sometimes your index fingers. This creates soft, ringing melodies that blend to make beautiful rhythm patterns. Page #3 World Music: Song 2 Zimbabwe a sound safari: Shiri yakanaka Word Bank: DESERT, RAIN FOREST, DRUMS, GUITAR, RAP, LAKE, SNOW, COUNTRY MUSIC, APARTMENT, SKYSCRAPER, HUT, VILLAGE World Map Page #4 Zimbabwe Guiro Latin Conga Claves Trumpet Harp Electirc Guitar Electric Bass Piano Glockenspiel Organ Page #5 AFRICAN ANCESTORS: MUSIC IN THE AMERICAS Music in North and South America is a mix of styles from many different places. One important place where people came from to share their music with this mix is Africa. Of course, Africa is not a small place. It is a huge continent with many different cultures and people. People came from all over Africa to the Americas. Most Africans were forced to come to the Americas to work as slaves. To make these sad times better, many new slaves made music like they played and sang in Africa. Musicians from many parts of Africa shared their music with people form the new cultures they met. All of this sharing gave musicians many ideas for new styles of music. Call Me! If you hear two groups singing back and forth to each other, you’re hearing a little part of music from Africa. This is called “cal-and-response” singing. A leader “calls” out a sentence, and a group sings something back. You can hear it in gospel music in the United States, son in Cuba, and reggae in Jamaica. Instrumental Connection Musicians from Africa didn’t just share their favorite songs. They created and shared their instruments, too. Sometimes, they even made new instruments. The new instrument ts were usually a little like the older instruments they knew. Like people, instruments can have ancestors that look and sound a little like them. Check out these three cool instruments from Latin America whose ancestors are “African”. Marimba One instrument tht made it across the ocean is the marimba. Marimbas are still played in many countries in Africa, and in Central and South American countries in Africa, and in Central and South American countries like Mexico, Guatemala, Venezuela, Ecuador, and Peru. The marimba is like a xylophone with wooden keys. You play the marimba by hitting the keys with mallets. Marimbas come in many shapes and sizes, just like xylophones. Have you every played a marimba before? Conga Drum The conga drum was first made in Cuba, but is now played in many different countries. Unlike some drums in the Americas, it does not have an African ancestor that looks exactly like it. Sometimes conga drums are played alone, and other times one person plays two or three conga drums at a time. This is because each conga drum has a different pitch. Did you know drums have a pitch? Marimbula The marimbula (mar-im-boo-lah) is an old instrument that is still played in some countries in the Caribbean, like Cuba and Jamaica. Its ancestors are the small thumb pianos that are pianos that are found in many cultures in Africa. Imagine a small thumb piano that magically grew 20 times its size-that’s a marimbula! The marimbula is a square box that can be two feet tall. It is so big that the marimbula player sits on top of it to play it. Its metal keys are wide like spoons. They must be plucked with the whole hand to make the marimbula’s low, bass notes. Explore! There are many other songs, styles, and instruments in the Americas whose “ancestors” are from Africa, like the banjo the agogo, and the berimbau. Have you heard of these instruments? If not, be a musical detective- who were these instruments’ musical great-great-great-grandparents?! Page #6 World Music: Song 3 African Ancestors: Imo Gal Where did these instruments come from? Africa or Europe Kalimba Fife Djembe Drum Xylophone Psaltery Maracas Harmonica Lute Viol Page #7 World Music: Song 4 Music in the Philippines: Bahay kubo Page #8 World Music: Song 5 Christmas Latin Style: Las Posadas Page #9 World Music: Song 6 Music of the Arabs: Hala lala layya Arabic Instruments Ud, also spelled oud (ood), has a deep, pear-shaped body; a fingerboard; and a relatively short neck and somewhat less acutely bent-back peg box.
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