ETHNOMUS 25 Study Guide - Final Guide: Rastafari, Verka Serduchka, Ros Serey Sothea
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Palmwine music is a west african genre that combines local west african instruments with those of visiting seamen. This music style includes instruments, such as, the concertina, harmonica, and the f guitar. It was played in both working-class dockside and palm wine bars. Liberian kru sailors introduced the fanti osibisaba and cross-fingering guitar techniques, where palm music developed from. As for the characteristic guitar picking technique, kru seamen were the ones who brought about the two-finger plucking guitar technique while working overseas on. European sailing ships during world war l. after world war ll, groups in this musical genre leaned toward guitar bands and borrowed instruments like the double-bass, clarinets, and afro-cuban bongos from the highlife period. (maddie neukranz) West african palmwine and military band music respectively gave birth to guitar-band highlife and brass-band highlife. (christine) (matt a. ) ii: musical elements two finger guitar style, artists i. i.
