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4) (Play ⓘ) and triple-pulse (12 8) form (Play ⓘ, and Play both together ⓘ. The most commonly used key pattern in sub-Saharan Africa is the seven-stroke figure known in ethnomusicology as the standard pattern, [18] [19] [20] or bembé. [21] The standard pattern is expressed in both a triple-pulse (12 8 or 6 8) and a duple-pulse (4 4 or 2 ...
Bongo Flava is one of the newer Tanzanian genres, developed in the 1990s, and is a fusion genre. It is a continuation of muziki wa kizazi kipya, meaning "Music of the new generation" of the late '80s and early '90s. [11] At its inception, bongo flava was more heavily influenced by US hip-hop and reggae, fused with Tanzanian music styles. [6 ...
In 1972, Nze Dan Orji, and Raphael Amarabem formed the Peacocks International Band. The band’s first single, “Sambola Mama,” was the first truly popular Bongo music. It would go on to sell 150,000 copies in Ghana, and more than double that amount in Nigeria. The 1970s and ‘80s marked the strongest periods in the trajectory of Bongo ...
While many scholars and journalists use Bongo Flava and Hip Hop interchangeably, distinctions are made by many Bongo Flava and Hip Hop artists. [9] [10] Bongo flava borrows from Tanzanian hip hop, with fast rhythms and rhymes in Swahili. The name "Bongo Flava" comes from the Swahili word for brains: ubongo. Bongo is the nickname of Dar es Salaam.
3.2 construction of standard compound-meter bell-pattern. The four notes at the bottom are the primary beats. The upper parts show; a) two cells of 3:2, beginning on beats 1 and 3 (Play ⓘ); b) the same, beginning on beats 2 and 4 (Play ⓘ); c) one cell of a) and one of b) giving d) the standard bell pattern notation (Play ⓘ)
The first ethnologists to work with the Bongo language were John Petherick, who published Bongo word lists in his 1861 work, Egypt, the Soudan, and Central Africa; Theodor von Heuglin, who also published Bongo word lists in Reise in das Gebiet des Weissen Nil, &c. 1862-1864 in 1869; and Georg August Schweinfurth, who contributed sentences and vocabularies in his Linguistische Ergebnisse, Einer ...
The Musician's Guide to Polyrhythms is a study guide by American author, drummer and percussionist Peter Magadini. Musician's Guide to Polyrhythms Vol. I was written in 1967 and published in 1968. Musician's Guide to Polyrhythms Vol. II was written in 1970 and published in 1971 [1] and was (at the time) a continuation of Vol. l. The first ...
Bongos are mainly employed in the rhythm section of son cubano and salsa ensembles, often alongside other drums such as the larger congas and the stick-struck timbales. In these groups, the bongo player is known as bongosero and often plays a continuous eight-stroke pattern called martillo (lit.