Activity+1.3+African+Influences+on+Western+Music

 **Activity 1.3:** **African Influences on Western Music** media type="youtube" key="WGao0UZmHpU&hl=en&fs=1" height="344" width="425" ** Youssou N’Dour featured on //In Your Eyes// by Peter Gabriel
 * Explore some of the African influences by watching or listening to performance examples; such as, Youssou N’Dour featured on //In Your Eyes// by Peter Gabriel; Manu Dibango featured on //Wanna be Startin’// //Something// by Michael Jackson; South African vocal group Ladysmith Black Mambazo featured on Paul Simon’s //Graceland- Diamonds on the Soles of her Shoes// and also on the soundtrack of //The Lion King.//

media type="youtube" key="OafqYNCzq5U&hl=en&fs=1" height="344" width="425"** **Ladysmith Black Mambazo featured on Paul Simon’s //Graceland- Diamonds on the Soles of her Shoes//**

media type="youtube" key="Rf629MCIgKE&hl=en&fs=1" height="344" width="425" **//Circle of Life from// The Lion King, Part 1** **Lesson extensions:**
 * Discuss: How are the African influences evident in the pieces you have listened to or watched?
 * Listening/Viewing Journals. Patterned on the Listening Journal in the **Rock n’ Roll Unit,** have students do a journal entry for one of the preceding videos. Demonstrate this process by modeling a journal entry for one of the videos after you have viewed it as a class.

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 * Listen to the interview of **//Mandu Diabango//**, who has become a world famous jazz musician. His interview raises the issues that he faces as two cultures meet, and how he comes to establish his own style.
 * Listen to excerpt from the 1985 Documentary **//Two Worlds One Heart//** which features an interview with Paul Simon and director of Ladysmith Black Mambazo. This documents the experience of two worlds meeting and working together. It also touches on the issues of Apartheid in South Africa.
 * Listen to the **//Heartbeat of Ghana//** to see how colonization changed the face of African drumming. Investigate what the citizens of Ghana are doing to preserve their roots, and the place of drumming in their culture. (8 minutes)