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Cards Term Diaspara Definition The breaking up and scattering of people Term The Maghrib Definition Area north of the sahara desert Term African Work music Definition peoples primary goal is not artistic, rather music that helps coordinate worker efforts. Term African Musical scale Definition 7 note major scale (G A B C D E F# G) Term African musical qualities Definition duple metered melodies Western harmony polyrythm repitition improvisation Term Cultural influences to African music Definition Europe Asia Americas Term True or false Participation is encouraged in the African music making proccess. Definition True Term enculturation Definition the proccess of learning one's own culture gradually during childhood Term True or false African music is primarily an artistic procces Definition False Term True or False African music is community based Definition True Term Abekor Definition Music and Dance of the Ewe people percussion section and chorus of voices. Bells, rattles and various drums. Complex polyrhythm. War drumming originally, now funerals. Call and response. Details in text Term Music-Culture Definition a group of people’s total involvement with music: ideas, actions, institutions, artifacts. Term Affect: Definition Music’s power to create an emotional impact. Term Community Definition group that carries the traditions and norms of performance. Term Performance Definition The act of performing music along the basis of agreed-on rules. Term Dagbamba—luna Definition members of a hereditary clan of' drummers. Ghana, Government sponsoring preservation Term gungon and luna—Talking drums Definition the drum's sound closely imitates Dagbanli, the spoken language of the Dagbamba. Lunsi "talk" and -sing" on their instruments. Details in text Term Mbira Definition –thumb piano. 3:2 rhythms prevail Term BaAka Definition Central African Republic Term kumbengo Definition an instrumental ostinato Term ostinato Definition a constantly repeating pattern