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1. Music serves many functions in West African society. It communicates ideas, values, and feelings. It celebrates historic events and important occasions in people's lives.

2. The styles of singing, instruments, drumming, and dance that are characteristic of West African music are Call and Response, balafons, the ngoni, the kora, the drums, which are made of hallowed out logs or pieces of wood with are covered with animal skins and dances which are performed during rituals and ceremonies that mark important events in people's lives.

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