Music of Mozambique, the Glossary
The native folk music of Mozambique has been highly influenced by Portuguese colonisation and local language forms.[1]
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59 relations: Azagaia, Brazil, Ceremonial dance, Chopi people, Choreography, Community of Portuguese Language Countries, Composer, Conducting, Counterpoint, Dance music, Democracy Now!, Fany Pfumo, Folk music, Ghorwane, Guitar, Hip hop music, HMV, Hugh Tracey, Idiom, Improvisation, Inhambane Province, International Library of African Music, Kwela, Laylizzy, Lizha James, Love, Lusophone music, Maputo, Marimba, Marrabenta, Maxixe (dance), Maxixe, Mozambique, Melody, Mingas, Mozambique, Mozambique (music), Music genre, Music of Africa, Music of Cuba, Music of New York City, Neyma, Performing arts, Poet, Politics of Mozambique, Portuguese language, Portuguese Mozambique, Ragga, Shona music, South Africa, Stewart Sukuma, ... Expand index (9 more) »
Azagaia
Edson Amândio Maria Lopes da Luz (6 May 1984 – 9 March 2023), better known by his stage name Azagaia, was a Mozambican rapper known for his songs about political issues and social justice in Mozambique.
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Brazil
Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest and easternmost country in South America and Latin America.
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Ceremonial dance
Ceremonial dance is a major category or classification of dance forms or dance styles, where the purpose is ceremonial or ritualistic.
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Chopi people
The Chopi are a Bantu ethnic group of Mozambique.
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Choreography
Choreography is the art or practice of designing sequences of movements of physical bodies (or their depictions) in which motion or form or both are specified.
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The Community of Portuguese Language Countries (Comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa;: CPLP), also known as the Lusophone Community (Comunidade Lusófona), is an international organization and political association of Lusophone nations across five continents, where Portuguese is an official language.
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Composer
A composer is a person who writes music.
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Conducting
Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance, such as an orchestral or choral concert.
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Counterpoint
In music, counterpoint is a method of composition in which two or more musical lines (or voices) are simultaneously played which are harmonically correlated yet independent in rhythm and melodic contour.
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Dance music
Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing.
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Democracy Now!
Democracy Now! is an hour-long TV, radio, and Internet news program based in Manhattan and hosted by journalists Amy Goodman (who also acts as the show's executive producer), Juan González, and Nermeen Shaikh.
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Fany Pfumo
Fany Pfumo (also spelled Fany Mpfumo) (Lourenço Marques, October 18, 1928 – Maputo, November 3, 1987) was a Mozambican-born singer who was mainly active in South Africa.
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Folk music
Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival.
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Ghorwane
Ghorwane is a Mozambican marrabenta musical band who have primarily used guitars, saxophones, and percussion instruments.
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Guitar
The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with some exceptions) and typically has six or twelve strings.
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Hip hop music
Hip hop or hip-hop, also known as rap and formerly as disco rap, is a genre of popular music that originated in the early 1970s from the African American community.
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HMV
HMV is a music and entertainment retailer, founded in the United Kingdom in 1921.
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Hugh Tracey
Hugh Travers Tracey was an English ethnomusicologist.
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Idiom
An idiom is a phrase or expression that usually presents a figurative, non-literal meaning attached to the phrase.
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Improvisation
Improvisation, often shortened to improv, is the activity of making or doing something not planned beforehand, using whatever can be found.
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Inhambane Province
Inhambane is a province of Mozambique located on the coast in the southern part of the country.
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International Library of African Music
The International Library of African Music (ILAM) is an organization dedicated to the preservation and study of African music.
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Kwela
Kwela is a pennywhistle-based street music from southern Africa with jazzy underpinnings and a distinctive, skiffle-like beat.
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Laylizzy
Edson Abel Jeremias Tchamo, known by his stage name Laylizzy, is a Mozambican, hip-hop recording artist, songwriter and performer who raps in Portuguese and English.
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Lizha James
Elisa Lisete James Humbane, popularly known as Lizha James, is a Mozambican musician.
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Love
Love encompasses a range of strong and positive emotional and mental states, from the most sublime virtue or good habit, the deepest interpersonal affection, to the simplest pleasure.
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Lusophone music
Lusophone music, is music that is sung in Portuguese.
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Maputo
Maputo is the capital and largest city of Mozambique.
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Marimba
The marimba is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars that are struck by mallets.
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Marrabenta
Marrabenta is a popular style of Mozambican dance music combining traditional Mozambican dance rhythms with Portuguese folk music.
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Maxixe (dance)
The maxixe, occasionally known as the Brazilian tango, is a dance, with its accompanying music (often played as a subgenre of choro), that originated in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro in 1868, at about the same time as the tango was developing in neighbouring Argentina and Uruguay.
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Maxixe, Mozambique
Maxixe is the largest city and economic capital of the province of Inhambane, Mozambique.
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Melody
A melody, also tune, voice or line, is a linear succession of musical tones that the listener perceives as a single entity.
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Mingas
Elisa Domingas Jamisse, better known by her stage name Mingas, is a Mozambican singer.
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Mozambique
Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique, is a country located in southeast Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west, and Eswatini and South Africa to the southwest.
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Mozambique (music)
Mozambique refers to two separate styles of music.
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Music genre
A music genre is a conventional category that identifies some pieces of music as belonging to a shared tradition or set of conventions.
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Music of Africa
Given the vastness of the African continent, its music is diverse, with regions and nations having many distinct musical traditions.
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Music of Cuba
The music of Cuba, including its instruments, performance, and dance, comprises a large set of unique traditions influenced mostly by west African and European (especially Spanish) music.
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Music of New York City
The music of New York City is a diverse and important field in the world of music.
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Neyma
Neyma Julio Alfredo (born 6 May 1979) is a Mozambican singer.
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Performing arts
The performing arts are arts such as music, dance, and drama which are performed for an audience.
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Poet
A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry.
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Politics of Mozambique
Politics in Mozambique takes place in a framework of a semi-presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the President of Mozambique is head of state and head of government in a multi-party system.
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Portuguese language
Portuguese (português or, in full, língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language of the Indo-European language family originating from the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.
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Portuguese Mozambique
Portuguese Mozambique (Moçambique Portuguesa) or Portuguese East Africa (África Oriental Portuguesa) were the common terms by which Mozambique was designated during the period in which it was a Portuguese colony.
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Ragga
Raggamuffin music (or simply ragga) is a subgenre of dancehall and reggae music.
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Shona music
Shona music is the music of the Shona people of Zimbabwe.
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South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.
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Stewart Sukuma
Stewart Sukuma, born Luis Pereira in 1963, is a Mozambican singer.
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Tanzania
Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania, (formerly Swahililand) is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region.
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Tempo
In musical terminology, tempo (Italian for 'time'; plural 'tempos', or tempi from the Italian plural), also known as beats per minute, is the speed or pace of a given composition.
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Tone (linguistics)
Tone is the use of pitch in language to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning—that is, to distinguish or to inflect words.
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Tsonga language
Tsonga or, natively, Xitsonga, as an endonym, is a Bantu language spoken by the Tsonga people of South Africa.
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Wazimbo
Humberto Carlos Benfica, known as Wazimbo (born November 11, 1948), is a Mozambican vocalist considered one of the greatest voices of Mozambique and one of the most famous marrabenta singers.
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Xylophone
The xylophone is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars struck by mallets.
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Zaire
Zaire, officially the Republic of Zaire, was the name of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 1971 to 1997.
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Zambia
Zambia, officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Central, Southern and East Africa.
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Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe, relief map Zimbabwe, officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia to the north, and Mozambique to the east.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Mozambique
Also known as Mozambican music, Mozambiquean music, Ngomi.
, Tanzania, Tempo, Tone (linguistics), Tsonga language, Wazimbo, Xylophone, Zaire, Zambia, Zimbabwe.