Countries in African that lie north of the Sahara Desert are influenced by what type
of music?

The music of Cape Verde has long been influenced by Europe, the northernmost state, has a considerable subtropical and desert northern region. 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.

African dances are largely participatory: there are traditionally no barriers between dancers and onlookers except with regard to spiritual, religious and initiation dances. Even ritual dances often have a time when spectators participate. Dances help people work, mature, praise or criticize members of the community, celebrate festivals and funerals, compete, recite history, proverbs and poetry and encounter gods. They inculcate social patterns and values. Many dances are performed by only males or females. Dances are often segregated by gender, reinforcing gender roles in children. Community structures such as kinship, age, and status are also often reinforced.To share rhythm is to form a group consciousness, to entrain with one another,to be part of the collective rhythm of life to which all are invited to contribute.

Explanation: