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ERIC ED132093: African Music in an American Context. Mini-Module.

Insights are offered into how speech, melody, and rhythm dramatize the differences in the construction and interpretation of music for Africa and America. Intended for use in instructing American students about African music, the learning module relates music to traditional African culture and maintains that the music is at the same time functional, religious, and secular. The musical selections in the booklet focus on the inflectionary character of the Nigerian Yoruba language and the proverbial nature of most African songs, in which speech, melody, rhythm, and dance are interrelated. The mul…