Evolution of Call and Response - A West African Tradition

[@Ohm51]

I LOVE ... Call and Response its the basis for a lot of musical forms and traditions.

[@hello_04]

Yes of those in the African diaspora

[@danix454]

@@hello_04 all over the world, fam.

[@megatonhammer4723]

thanks for sharing! I’m a Capoeira practitioner and even though Capoeira was developed in Brazil, the African roots are strongly present and much alive today in the music’s call and response pattern. I’m fascinated by how it went to both the north and south America’s and developed differently and yet maintained its roots so well.

[@astrovoilet]

Pov: you got this for an assignment

[@ohitsthem7601]

Nope, im just a geek for blues call and response :3

[@aarondeitchman9648]

Wow good job lol

[@whoishim2998]

I was just looking for call and response examples to only learn I already knew this lol

[@u_luv_mulattos1879]

lmao yes

[@alpha8here]

yaaassss

[@backbeforedawn]

0:01 Me and the boys when we see another class on a field trip

[@tunjilegba]

Sea-Shanty songs has African Call and Response too

[@elizabethfallen6216]

I cant stop watching the first clip

[@user-iv5wn1su4c]

Don't see the verbal only... See music. accompaniment. Piano, trumpet, sax... they do call and respond

[@BobaDavis]

Not exactly... Instruments compliment each other in a song, but there isn't implied that Call and Response is being used, it's quite specific in it's method.

[@marcoevans2155]

Dead wrong! Lol, 2:41. God damn, simply research the definition of swing music. Listen to the opening of Beethovens 5th. Call and Response.

[@PatrickArnold-t3b]

You missed the entire military part....cadence, both black and white years of "call and response"

[@tg4481]

Amazing video

[@NoLongerARandomGuy]

Bruh got this in my music class

[@InspiredByEbonyLove]

The people in the beginning clip are Masai from EAST AFRICA, not West. 😊

[@illijah]

True! But it is common throughout Sub-sharan Africa.

[@thembelihledunjana]

Perfect!

[@TSPOWELL89]

A major part of our African heritage

[@jonathandodd13]

pov: you have to sing this is your music class

[@darkness8798]

I love this so much

[@morenitomoreno1282]

Cuban music is big on Call and response as well

[@octaviantimisoreanu5810]

I took a bird course on the history of rock music in Uni and when the prof taught us about call and response, I started noticing it in so many music genres from Salsa, Jazz, Rythm&Blues, Rock, Reggae, HipHop, EDM, Country, all the way to Marching/Military songs and shanties. I think we as social animals naturally evolved to find call and response attractive.

[@MSILBB]

@@octaviantimisoreanu5810 no it’s just wherever black people go our presence is influential

[@joshuaperkins9916]

Octavian, it is true. Early settlers in The US from England and Scotland brought with them forms of call and response church singing. Gailic Psalms singing is one example, which a colorful, improvised, microtonal style of singing that is one of the roots of Gospel. Scottish women also sang what is called waulking songs, a call and response singing style that is set to the rhythm of hand washing wool. All this was imported to the US early on and would have certainly meet up with similar African traditions.

[@TC-ym1vk]

Thank you so much for this❤️❤️

[@Kenz-u7v]

Where can I find the lyrics of first vid clip?

[@rasheebell4]

Váyase de Ahí is a Dominican Dembow that has call and response in it

[@SuliyemanBouboul]

In Morocco there is a type of music called Gnawa music (that my father’s family play) that was brought to Morocco along with Sub Saharan African slaves from countries in the Sahel region of Africa in the 1600’s all the way up to the early 1900’s

[@colourbasscolourbassweapon2135]

well i make dubstep so i use alot Call and im black so yeah

[@coinmaster6458]

Those are are girls from the maa community in east Africa

[@sarasmoniker4148]

good to know, thank you

[@tanklessleaf4166]

Is it just me or anyone else watching this for the module

[@filmontesfay9703]

❤️

[@InspiredByEbonyLove]

There are far better example of call and response than Bruno Mars. Look to Gospel music . Particularly Pentecostal music from the COGIC & Apostolic Churches.

[@sarasmoniker4148]

Thank you for your comments. I made this to engage a 7th grade class for a job interview. I'm sure there's a lot better videos out there for this topic.