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mangolongondo
Bobby McFerrin
rock painting of a dance performance balafon
Observe a man playing the atumpan, a talking drum of the Asante people of West Africa
kora ennanga arched harp Hausa musicians ivory trumpet
Comparing traditional African music and rap
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Young girl wearing a demin jacket playing the trumpet (child, musical instruments, Asian ethnicity)
Sound Check: Musical Vocabulary Quiz
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African music: Media

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Bobby McFerrin
The universality and innate nature of music, and the pentatonic scale, as demonstrated...
Video: © World Science Festival (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
Observe a man playing the atumpan, a talking drum of the Asante people of West Africa
The atumpan, talking drums of the Asante people of West Africa.
Video: Wesleyan Virtual Instrument Museum 2.0 (https://wesomeka.wesleyan.edu/vim2)
Comparing traditional African music and rap
Gini Gorlinski, associate editor of music and dance of Encyclopædia Britannica,...
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
See a man playing a 'calabash drum'
A calabash drum from Ghana.
Video: Wesleyan Virtual Instrument Museum 2.0 (https://wesomeka.wesleyan.edu/vim2)

Images

mangolongondo
Man playing traditional mangolongondo instrument, Malawi.
Steve Evans
rock painting of a dance performance
Rock painting of a dance performance, Tassili-n-Ajjer, Algeria, attributed to the...
Jean-Dominique Lajoux
balafon
View of the underside of a balafon from Guinea, showing the gourd resonators,...
Wesleyan Virtual Instrument Museum 2.0 (https://wesomeka.wesleyan.edu/vim2)
kora
A Gambian kora.
Wesleyan Virtual Instrument Museum 2.0 (https://wesomeka.wesleyan.edu/vim2)
ennanga arched harp
Ugandan musician playing the ennanga arched harp.
Gerhard Kubik
Hausa musicians
Hausa musicians at the court of the emir of Zaria, northern Nigeria, performing on...
Gerhard Kubik
ivory trumpet
Side-blown ivory trumpet from Liberia.
Wesleyan Virtual Instrument Museum 2.0 (https://wesomeka.wesleyan.edu/vim2)
Griots performing in Sofara, Mali.
Bruno Morandi/Alamy
Mbira (a lamellaphone) with bamboo tongues, central Africa; in the James...
Reid Music Library, The University of Edinburgh, gift of James Blades
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