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  2. Moribayassa - Wikipedia

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    Women generally engage in the dance to express their emotions and seek spiritual purification. Moribayassa is a high-intensity dance in which participants forcefully shake their bodies to the beat of the drum. The dance is often done by a group of women, who dress in vibrant costumes and hats.

  3. Sub-Saharan African music traditions - Wikipedia

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    The Kikuyu are one of the largest and most urbanized communities in Kenya. At the Riuki cultural center in Nairobi traditional songs and dances are still performed by local women, including music for initiations, courting, weddings, hunting, and working.

  4. Raga - Wikipedia

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    While ragas in Hindustani music are divided into thaats, ragas in Carnatic music are divided into melakartas. A raga ( IAST : rāga , IPA: [ɾäːɡɐ] ; also raaga or ragam or raag ; lit. ' colouring ' or ' tingeing ' or ' dyeing ' [ 1 ] [ 2 ] ) is a melodic framework for improvisation in Indian classical music akin to a melodic mode . [ 3 ]

  5. List of Janya ragas - Wikipedia

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    Melakarta Ragas Janya ragas are Carnatic music ragas derived from the fundamental set of 72 ragas called Melakarta ragas, by the permutation and combination of the various ascending and descending notes. The process of deriving janya ragas from the parent melakartas is complex and leads to an open mathematical possibility of around thirty thousand ragas. Though limited by the necessity of the ...

  6. African reggae - Wikipedia

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    While their music was popular around the world, it was particularly well-received in Africa. [1] One of the first hit songs by an African artist with distinct reggae qualities was "Fire In Soweto" by Sonny Okosun in 1978. [1] [3] More groups followed suit, and reggae was one of the most popular genres of music in the late 1970s in Africa.

  7. List of ragas in Hindustani classical music - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of various Ragas in Hindustani classical music.There is no exact count/known number of ragas which are there in Indian classical music.. Once Ustad Vilayat Khan saheb at the Sawai Gandharva Bhimsen Festival, Pune said before beginning his performance – "There are approximately four lakh raags in Hindustani Classical music.

  8. Ukusina - Wikipedia

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    The word "Ukusina" has a rich connotation and captures the ethereal nature of this traditional dance style. "Ukusina" means "dance of the spirits" in Zulu. The verb "sina," the source of the word, means "to dance." The prefix "uku-" is added to signify that the action, in this case, dancing, is being performed or is in the process of being ...

  9. Rhythm in Sub-Saharan Africa - Wikipedia

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    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 most commonly used key pattern in sub-Saharan Africa is the seven-stroke figure known in ethnomusicology as the standard ...