Refer to the Close Listening chart, WOM, p. 98. After you listen to the excerpt from “Nyarai” (“Be Ashamed”) on CD 1:15, list the Euro American musical features you hear and the traditional African features you hear. Do you hear any connection between this music and the preceding mbira musical example? Explain your answer
What will be an ideal response?
• Euro American musical features
• studio-produced music using popular music instruments (regular guitars and bass guitar, drums)
• metrical two-beat throughout all the parts (not polymetric)
• accompanying Western-type harmonic progression
• popular music form based on repeating sections
• Traditional African musical features
• intricate, rhythmic interlocking of guitar parts (mbira-influenced)
• collective improvisation (especially after 1:11)
• polyrhythmic interplay among instruments
- African language lyrics present a praise poem for "warriors, their leaders, their families, and their supporters." (But the lyrics also "chide people ‘Be Ashamed' who are unreconciled to change.")[1]
[1] Although in the song Mapfumo praises Mr. Mugabe's leadership in Zimbabwe, "subsequent events have brought mixed reviews for Mr. Mugabe's leadership."
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