Music is one of the very important parts of the life of a human. It helps people to express many different things and at the same time, it also helps people to celebrate many of the occasions with more warmth and passion. Africa is one such country where music plays an important role in various such activities. Today in this article we will get to know about the significance of Sound and music in African Culture.
Marriage In African Culture
There are many different occasions when music plays a very important role to make the whole environment live with its impact over that particular situation. The marriage ceremony is one of those moments. In this ceremony, people play not just vocal music but also instrumental music. The music may be based on the feeling of love and enjoyment. Sometimes especially when using vocal music, this may be in the form of expressing the future life of the couple and the responsibility of care towards each other.
Birth And Death Of African Culture
This is also one of the most important occasions African people take the help of music. The music played on this occasion mostly expresses the joy of the parents when they got the blessings of God in the form of a newborn baby. Music played on this occasion normally remains not too much noise as much in the marriage ceremony. One of the main reasons behind this may be the presence of a newborn baby who is not able to enjoy or tolerate too much loud music there. Music is mostly in the form of vocal music. This vocal music may express the glow on the face of the baby, new life starting with the parents, cute activities of the baby and many such things related to the baby.
Work In African Culture
African people are known as the people who are truly devoted to every work they do. Most of the time, they also take the help of music to make their work more enjoyable and result oriented. Some of the main work occasions, where one can find them playing music are harvesting, chopping, digging etc. On these occasions, they mostly play such music which makes them feel even more energetic and focused on their work.
On Many Different Other Occasions
Along with all the above situations, there are many other situations where African people take the help of music to express their real joy, sorrow, responsibility, sensibility, paying respect, telling stories etc. Some of such main occasions are when to praise someone, to recount the history, telling about the victory of any king over others, expressing love for someone and on many such occasions. Other than the voice, there are many different types of instruments that are used to produce the music in African culture like Drum, wind, self sounding etc. They also use their various body parts to produce the sound. Like hands to clap and thump, feet to produce rhythm, mouth and tongue to whistle etc.
