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Apala (or akpala) is a music genre originally developed by the Yoruba people of Nigeria, [1] during the country's history as a colony of the British Empire. It is a percussion-based style that originated in the late 1930s. The rhythms of apala grew more complex over time, and have influenced the likes of Cuban music, whilst gaining popularity ...
The agidigbo or ‘’’molo’’’ is a large traditional plucked lamellophone thumb piano [1] used by the Yoruba people of Nigeria to play apala music. [2] [3]It is a box, big enough to sit on a musician’s lap, with 4 to 5 strips of metal set up side by side on top like keys on a piano keyboard.
It is intended as an intertribal song, so the use of non-lexical vocables prevents bias to one particular language. Other traditional musical forms employing non-lexical vocables include: Puirt à beul (traditional Scottish and Irish song form that sometimes employs nonsense syllables) Nigun in Jewish religious music
Spanish-language musical groups (12 C, 5 P) ... Pages in category "Spanish-language music" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total.
"Perreo," the name of the dance performed to the rhythm of the widely popular Latin urban genre reggaeton, which has deep roots in Puerto Rico, is officially a Spanish word.
Wallah, -walla, -wala, or -vala (-wali fem.), is a suffix used in a number of Indo-Aryan languages, like Hindi/Urdu, Gujarati, Bengali or Marathi. It forms an adjectival compound from a noun or an agent noun from a verb. [ 1 ]
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Nowadays, walla actors make use of real words and conversations, often improvised, tailored to the languages, speech patterns, and accents that might be expected of the crowd to be mimicked. Rhubarb is used instead in the UK where actors say "rhubarb, rhubarb", gur-gur ( "гур-гур" ) in Russia , and gaya ( がや ) in Japan , perhaps in ...