Music, specifically in central and west Africa, typically accompanied daily life such as recreational, occupational, and ritualized activities. Groups and individuals participated in music making which comprised the “performers” and the “audience” singing, dancing, clapping their hands, and playing percussive instruments. Their performance style produced a call-and-response chorus structure, strongly encouraging individualism. Singers and audience members injected utterances, produced groans, shrills, moans, and screams that conveyed emotion.