At the end of daily work, Africans drink Palmwine at sunset to refresh the body, when they do this, Palmwine music is usually being sang. This music is a happy music with nice rhythm and grooves.
Palmwine music is a West African musical genre. It combines vocal, local melodies and local West African traditional instruments most especially the traditional percussions and also, with the portable instruments of visiting seamen such as the concertina, harmonica and most importantly the Guitar. This music is distinct with African rhythms usually executed on either clave or gong.
Palm-wine music was named after a drink, palm wine, made from the naturally fermented sap of the oil palm, which was drunk at gatherings.
It was played in working-class dockside bars and palm wine bars and included sub-genres such as the osibisaaba and annkadaamu of the local Fanti fishermen, Sierra Leonian Asiko music and the Dagomba, “fireman” (i.e. ship coal-stoker) and “Mainline” guitar-styles of visiting Liberian Kru sailors and Stevedores. Annkadaamu of the local Fanti fishermen, the Akan blues of Southern Ghana. The gathering Dance of Ijaw Fishermen in South-South Nigeria, the Ẹgbẹ́ Ẹlẹ́mu from the Yoruba people of South West Nigeria which later developed into the Jùjú music.
This compositions are written in the style of the African Palmwine music.
Product: Self Print / PDF
Category: Guitar Ensemble
Level: Intermediate
ISMN: 979-0-807300-16-8
TE: 24
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