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African Chant
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The unknown depths of the jungle are shown. The film cuts to a quieter scene, the Jungle Drums beat, and some random African chant comes from the music. While sometimes the chant may be real, most of the time it's just random phrases of Swahili or Zulu in order for it to mean something. The go-to-guy for genuine African chants is Lebo M. Compare Ominous Latin Chanting and One-Woman Wail. May appear during a "Lion King" Lift. |
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Road to Zanzibar has a bit of chanting titled "African Etude". | |
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The Simpsons: In "Girls Just Want To Have Sums", the musical Stabalot: The Itchy & Scratchy Musical featured background chants sounding like "Itchy Scratchy, Itchy Itchy Scratchy..." | |
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The Animaniacs parody of The Lion King has this: | |
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Sesame Street: Sally Cruikshank produced a series of animated inserts for the series involving counting up to a certain number, with the highest being 19 and the lowest being 13 (according to Muppet Wiki, there is no animation for 20). Another animated Sesame Street skit involving counting to a certain number had number emerge out of seashells while a chant sounding like "Bading-a-ding bada-bading-a-ding" can be heard in the background. Two alphabet songs from the same show are even sung to African tribal music. |
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"Mystery Animal" from Zoboomafoo (sung over an animation where a cartoon blob is shown morphing into the animal featured in the episode). | |
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Civilization: "Baba Yetu," from Civilization 4, is just a Swahili rendition of "The Lord's Prayer" — but a truly epic one, worthy of being the soundtrack to a whole history of, erm, civilization. The Zulu from the sequel Civilization 5 also have one (technically two) as their theme song. Once again, the Zulu in Civilization 6 have one. It's actually a medley of several real life Zulu folk songs. |
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Reasonably enough, the opening and closing episodes of Roots (1977) had African songs, mostly sung by Maya Angelou (who also appeared as the elder Nyo Boto in the first episode). | |
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The Constant Gardener uses the song "Kothbiro," over natural scenes at Lake Turkana, to establish the setting. | |
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Black Panther has a specific theme for the Dahomey Amazons-inspired Dora Milaje warriors. Composed by Ludwig Göransson, it consists of a group of Senegalese women 'yipping', which director Ryan Coogler described as a "chu chu" sound. It's reprised in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. | |
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African Chant | |
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Johnny Clegg's "Asimbonanga" (with a number of Zulu lyrics) is sometimes used in media to this effect, to say nothing of its covers and remixes by non-South African musicians. | |
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In the Top Gear (UK) two-part Africa special, the customary theme from The A-Team was punched up with African chanting. | |
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| African Chant / int_6ec17df0 | type |
African Chant | |
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Several are included in the score to Whispers: An Elephant's Tale, with a particularly glorious one (which crops up frequently throughout, serving as the main theme) featured at the opening. | |
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District 9 has this in a few scenes. | |
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| African Chant / int_7b039953 | type |
African Chant | |
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James Cameron's Avatar and Avatar: The Way of Water has some Na'vi chants meant to invoke this trope, with the addition of Pacific islander chants-sounding music for the seashore-dwelling Na'vi in the latter. | |
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African Chant | |
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Main theme for Far Cry 2, sung by Senegalese singer Baaba Maal. | |
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Eskimo by The Residents. Except instead of African Chanting, it's (fake) Inuk chanting. | |
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African Chant | |
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The Adventure Field's Mystic Ruins in Sonic Adventure, and Mazuri in Sonic Unleashed. | |
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Animated Tales of the World : Features all throughout the underscore of "How Tortoise Won Respect," including the Zulu- or Xhosa-language song "Fudukazi Uzokumangaza", which is first heard in the background in the beginning, and is sung again over the end credits. There is also the Mossinote or perhaps Fula, since the story is apparently set on the edge of the Sahel, in the north of Burkina Faso singing over the opening and closing of "The Tyrant and the Child." |
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The Lion King: The original: The famous opening sunrise is possibly the Trope Maker for more modern examples. It does sound better than most other examples listed, as it was written in an authentic mix of Zulu, Xhosa, Swazi, and Sotho. Rafiki's chant while taunting Simba — Asante sana, squash banana, we we nugu mi mi hapana — is also a real Swahili phrase. It means, "Thank you very much, [mister] squashed banana! You are a baboon, and I am not!" The trope is lampshaded in the P.O.V. Sequel The Lion King 1 ½, as quoted above. |
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African Chant | |
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A set of samples called “African Mist� are used in the Danganronpa soundtracks, specifically for Monokuma’s Leitmotif, and the tracks played for the executions. | |
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African Chant | |
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The original: The famous opening sunrise is possibly the Trope Maker for more modern examples. It does sound better than most other examples listed, as it was written in an authentic mix of Zulu, Xhosa, Swazi, and Sotho. Rafiki's chant while taunting Simba — Asante sana, squash banana, we we nugu mi mi hapana — is also a real Swahili phrase. It means, "Thank you very much, [mister] squashed banana! You are a baboon, and I am not!" |
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The entire score to the film adaptation of The Power of One (co-written as it was by future Lion King lyricist Lebo M.), though of particular note are: "Mother Africa" The ending reprise, which also includes an epic rendition of the Xhosa hymn "Bawo Thixo Somandla". "The Rainmaker"note Perhaps fittingly, a snippet of this track was used as the temp music for Simba's ascension and Kiara's birth in the Lion King storyreel, before culminating in an instrumental reprise of "Circle of Life." "Southland Concerto", in which the native Africans Stealth Insult their oblivious white audience. Interestingly, several tracks from this film (including some of those listed above) were featured in the 1994 IMAX nature film Africa: The Serengeti. |
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Parodied in The Book of Mormon, where the phrase being chanted by the Ugandans in their first song, "Hasa Diga Eebowai," is revealed to mean, "Fuck you, God." | |
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The music theme of the level Grassland Groove in Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze displays this trope. Notably, the song doesn't loop like a normal theme would do, but instead changes gradually as the player progresses in the level. When the exit is displayed, the music ends with an epic chant of Donkey Kong's name. | |
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Show Boat: The Dahomey dancers in the 1893 World's Fair sequence frighten off white visitors with their frenzied chanting and barbaric manners, then reveal it's a load of Big Applesauce — "our home just ain't Dahomey at all" but New York. | |
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Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa: As the zoo animals arrive to the watering hole and meet various members of their own species, the wild animals are partying to an African chant. The animals perform another chant in the third act as they are about to sacrifice Melman in a volcano. | |
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In the film Zulu, the Zulu warriors sing a praise song lauding the British defenders as Worthy Opponents before beginning their final assault. | |
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Lionel Richie gives us All Night Long. | |
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Zecora the zebra from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, speaks and chants African-esque sounds which freaks all the ponies of Ponyville out and they assume she's evil. Word of God is that they wanted her to be speaking authentic Swahili in Bridle Gossip, but they didn't have the time or resources. Instead, they got the voice actor to make up some African-sounding gibberish. Lauren Faust said that she likes to imagine Zecora is speaking Zebra in lieu of Swahili.◊ | |
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In A Song Is Born, Professor Frisbee teaches a "Polynesian love chant" to his foundation's benefactor, complete with nonsense words, a silly dance and Jungle Drums. | |
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The Critic has its own Lion King parody, The Cockroach King, starring Howard Stern. | |
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