7. What role did music and dance play in the everyday lives of early Africans?

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In Africa, music plays an important part in the way people interact, celebrate and relay historic events! Music is a form of communication and it plays a functional role in African society. Songs accopany marriage, birth, rites of passage, hunting and even political activities. In certain African communities music is often believed to ward off evil spirits and to pay respects to good spirits, the dead and ancestors.

Explanation:

Dance is an integral part of the African culture. Dancers use symbolic gestures, masks, costumes, body painting and props to communicate. The dance movements can be simple or complex with intricate actions including fast rotation, ripples of the body and contraction and release. Dance is used to express emotion, whether joyful or sorrowful and it is not limited to just the dancers. Many times, spectators will be encouraged to join in.