African music

-African music is also highly improvised. A core rhythmic pattern is typically played, with drummers then improvising new patterns over the static original patterns. Traditional music in most continent is passed down orally and is not written. 

                This maybe different to others in this generation but it is really fun to hear and dance to it. This song I've embed is one of the traditional music in Africa. The rhythms is really pleasing to hear. The song you are hearing is called, "Jarabi". It was sang by Sona Jobarteh. 

            "I think music tells the story without much else, because you can hear it. You see the amount of people who have come into this tradition, who don't know anything about it, and they get so excited" She said in an interview in Afropop World. https://afropop.org/articles/sona-jobartehs-singular-path-through-mande-tradition

             Le Kalli, Sarah. (November 1, 2012). The song behind the love song Jarabi. https://www.facebook.com/notes/afronesia/the-story-behind-the-love-song-jarabi/380401998704817 Most Kora songs are very formal and involve part of the history and cultural roots of the Mende tradition; Jarabi is an exception. However, Jarabi (meaning "beloved", is one of the most popular Kora songs. Originally composed shortly after independence from the Federation of Mali, now divided into Senegal, the return of traditional artistic and cultural expressions of many residents in the area. 

            In this new environment, Jarabi was born, which became and remains Kora's most famous work to this day. When the French were forced to leave, they offered Mali the possibility of maintaining a common property under the French system; The people, very indigent at the brutality of the French occupation, only wanted complete independence. Enraged, Charles Du Gaulle ordered that everything of the country be stripped. 

            Destroyed buildings and destroyed infrastructure. People ended up with much less than before    colonization and found meaning. Composed at this time, Jarabi is a love song that, like most African love songs of the period, is a metaphor for the love of the country, its culture and its people. In colonial times, such love songs were imbued with messages through metaphors meant to urge the besieged to hope and resolve.