Sub-Saharan African music traditions

In many parts of sub-Saharan Africa, the use of music is not limited to entertainment: it serves a purpose to the local community and helps in the conduct of daily routines. Traditional African music supplies appropriate music and dance for work and for religious ceremonies of birth, naming, rites of passage, marriage and funerals. The beats and sounds of the drum are used in communication as well as in cultural expression. Africa Protagonismo del ritmo:El instrumento rey es el tambor (como el djembé o los tambores parlantes), usado no solo para crear música, sino también como un sistema de lenguaje y comunicación no verbal.</ref> African dances are largely participatory: there are traditionally no barriers between dancers and onlookers except with regard to spiritual, religious and initiation dances.