African music
music
exhibit so many common features that they may in some respects be thought of as constituting a single musical system. While some african music music is clearly contemporary-popular music and some is art music, still a great deal is communal and orally transmitted while still qualifying as a religious or courtly genre.
yoruba
Yoruba dancers and drummers, for instance, express communal desires, values, and collective creativity. The drumming represents an underlying linguistic text that guides the dancing performance, allowing linguistic meaning to be expressed non-verbally.
luo
The music of the Luo, for another example, is functional, used for ceremonial, religious, political or incidental purposes, during funerals to praise the departed, to console the bereaved, to keep people awake at night, to express pain and agony and during cleansing and chasing away of spirits, during beer parties (Dudu, ohangla dance), welcoming back the warriors from a war, during a wrestling match (Ramogi), during courtship, in rain making and during divination and healing.
kudu horns
this is a set of six horns that represents a cross pollination of musical traditions animal horns are played all over Africa.
traditions
In Africa the broom kid naps the bride and asks the dad for her hand in marriage but if he says no the groom would have to bye her.