Year 10 - Music
Musical fusion in the Americas and Africa
Fusions and Bhangra
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Lesson Summary
You will learn to explain that many musical styles around the world are the result of fusion and can explain some ways that artists use musical fusion to innovate.
Key Notes
- Most musical styles are some form of fusion of different musical influences.
- Many key Latin-American musical styles are a fusion of African and European music.
- Many of these Latin styles have also created fusions with other styles, such as jazz and rock.
- Afrobeat is a style from the 1960s and 1970s that fuses aspects of West African music with jazz, funk and soul.
- Afrobeats is a term used to describe a wide range of different modern fusion styles from Africa.
Vocabulary To Learn
- Fusion: The blending of more than one musical style or culture to create a new 'fused' sound is called musical fusion.
- Afro-Cuban: Cubans with African ancestors are called Afro-Cuban.
- Afro-Cuban jazz: Afro-Cuban jazz is a fusion of jazz with rhythms and other musical features from the Afro-Cuban community.
- Afrobeat: Afrobeat is a style from the 1960s and 1970s from West Africa that fuses aspects of West African music with jazz, funk and soul.
- Afrobeats: Afrobeats is a term used to describe a wide range of different modern styles from Africa, many of which are examples of fusion.
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Afrobeat and Afrobeats are the same thing.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Most musical styles are some form of fusion of different musical influences. Many key Latin-American musical styles are a fusion of African and European music.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'Fusion'
The blending of more than one musical style or culture to create a new 'fused' sound is called musical fusion.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Afrobeat and Afrobeats are the same thing. Correction: Afrobeat is a specific genre from the 1960s/1970s based on a fusion of West African music with funk and soul. Afrobeats is a broad term for many modern genres that are different fusions from across the continent, but have a few common features.
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