http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge6hx5-Qn0Y See 10:35
The word music doesn't seem to exist in African languages, unless you can tell me it does.... The Swahili tutor tells me we have musiki, which is borrowed from Latin... We have words for *song* and for *dance*, but not for *music*. Instead of music there's song, and it's perhaps a reflection that African instrumental melodies "speak", and they could be verbalised. So performances and listening project verbal patterns into song structures....
