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African folk music has a very large background and is believed to have started from the slaves of the continent. African folk music does carry a lot of significance and many musical features have come out from Northern Africa, Northeast Africa and the coast of Eastern Africa.
African folk music comes along with the various traditions of the African tribes who want to express themselves through their music. African folk music is accompanied by a wide array of musical instruments and some of them are named as xylophones,lamelloophone, double bells, fiddles,slit gongs, kora, rattles and drums.
The drums which are used in African folk music have diverse names and some of them are engoma, diembe,djembe, water drums, talking drums. African folk music has also been influenced by the colonial people and the instruments like the saxophones, trumpet sand guitars were adopted from those times.
African folk music has some special characteristics features like the influence of the timber and the tonal aspects. The predominance of the timbers makes the music sound very loud and the tonal aspects does reduce the melody in some cases.
African folk music is played at various kinds of religious ceremonies and has very close connection with its culture. African folk music was also performed in the courtrooms of the kings and in various kinds of social occasions like birth and marriage.
African Folk music has passed from one generation to the other over centuries and have symbolized the views of the different tribal groups.
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