Salegy music of Madagascar

Today Salegy has been popularized by initiators like Jaojoby and Mily Clement or relative strangers Ninie Doniah, Wawa, Vaiavy Chila or Dr. J.B and Jaguars which is rhythmic, energetic form of dance music led by ringing electric guitars, accordion 9real or synthesized) and call-and-response polyharmonic vocals, pushed by heavy electric bass and a driving drumming unit typically include the djembe, drum kit and shakers. Salegy stand for an electrified version of the antsa musical pattern that was traditionally performed at Tsimihety and Betsimisaraka rituals as performed by Mana Sana.

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In addition to their similarity in tempo, vocal method and tendency towards the minor keys (which some of it is a quality to an Arab influence and which stands in difference to the major key supremacy of Highland music), the salegy divides the ants’a structure and through this way it features a middle unit known as folaka (meaning broken) which is mainly instrumental voice which serves only to urge on more energetic dancing and that time the vocalists and the audience will launch into complicated polyrhythmic hand-clapping to the beat of the music.