El Ritmo - Teoría Musical

Rhythm is one of the elements of music addressed by music theory, but rhythm in African music, or rather, rhythm in Africa, goes far beyond music as Western music theory understands it. More than 1.3 billion people live in Africa, spread across its more than 50 countries. The linguistic diversity is unprecedented, and it is precisely the rhythmic patterns of speech that shape much of African musical discourse. African music is intimately connected to the life cycle of individuals and their communities, both births and deaths, and also to the voice—that is, to the rhythms that arose from the dialogues of ancestors. The rhythms of speech are personal communication, and the rhythms of the body are communal communication. Music in Africa is not something external to life; it is not separate from it; it is part of it, it is essential. The African-rooted music we have in the West—blues, jazz, gospel, Afro-Cuban music, and all the rhythmic richness of the Caribbean—has its roots in Africa, in the way it understands rhythm, a way we will explore in a basic and essential way in this video. For Further Information: The African Imagination in Music - Kofi Agawu: https://amzn.to/34mn4DS FOLI:    • FOLI   (there is no movement without rhyth...   The Metrical Underpinnings of African Time-Line Patterns:    • Kofi Agawu - The metrical underpinnings of...   African Polyrhythms in a Modern Version:    • Old African Polyrhythms   Anku’s Theory of African Rhythm:    • Kofi Agawu - Anku’s Theory of African Rhythm   THE RHYTHMS OF THE EXERCISE EXPLAINED: The Metrical Underpinnings of African Time-Line Patterns:    • Kofi Agawu - The metrical underpinnings of...   Music by Africa: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3Ul...