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mikaylakyoung

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Which drum from Ghana, Africa is known as a talking drum, because performers can alter the pitch of the instrument,
  thereby mimicking the inflections of speech.


 
 

a. conga
  b. gongon
  c. timpani
  d. grito
  e. dondon



Question 2

The structure of African music is governed in large measure by a principle of performance called:
 
 

a. parallelism
  b. fusion
  c. Ghana
  d. call and response
  e. all of the above



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bfulkerson77

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Reply #1 on: Jul 25, 2018
Answer to Question 1

ANSWER: e

Answer to Question 2

ANSWER: d


mikaylakyoung

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Reply #2 on: Jul 25, 2018
Both answers were spot on, thank you once again


bfulkerson77

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Reply #3 on: Jul 25, 2018
Great! Please up vote :D


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