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MSN Encarta - African Music (1345 words) |
 | African music also has a conversational quality, in which different voices, instrumental parts, or even the parts of a single player are brought into lively exchange. |
| A wide variety of vocal qualities are used in African music, and it is common for sound-producing objects, such as jingles, rattles, and membranes made of spiderweb, to be attached to instruments to produce a âsizzlingâ effect. |
| The flute, whistle, oboe, and trumpet are among the African wind instruments. |
| Maghreb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (542 words) |
| The Maghreb (or Moghreb), meaning "western" in Arabic, is the region of the continent of Africa north of the Sahara desert and west of the Nile - specifically, the modern countries of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and to a lesser extent Libya and Mauritania. |
| It largely shares a common culinary tradition; indeed, the Maghreb was jocularly defined by Habib Bourguiba as the part of North Africa where couscous is the staple food. |
| The Arabs reached the Maghreb in early Umayyad times, but their control over it was quite weak, and various Islamic "heresies" such as the Ibadis and the Shia, enthusiastically adopted by some Berbers, quickly threw off Caliphal control in the name of their interpretations of Islam. |
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