African Music and Religion

African Music, Religion, and Narrative, Jamual A. Floyd Jr., In the Power of Black Music. Interpreting its history from Africa to the U.S. N.Y. Oxford University Press, 1995, pps, 14-34. African religion is similar to that of the Native American. There are many different African cultures, and there are more than three thousand types of religion amongst them. In African religion, the idea of god is a being in the sky that reigns over …

…music. Verbal presentation was very important in the role of their music. The use of clicks, grunts, and other idiosyncratic styles strongly attributed to what the performers were attempting to portray. African music was very serious and regulated. The tribes took their music very seriously and expected conformity from the artists. The music is what taught everything from sexual relations to social order and music was the tool used to instill it into the people.