What elements of African musical expression does their music embody?

the Soundtrack requires you to offer analysis and insights into several songs affiliated with the assignment. In completing the Soundtrack assignment, you will be responsible for listening and responding to questions and research items that are attached to each question. In your response, you may reference any of the music, films, readings, and other texts that we have engaged in class, but your response should include direct analysis of the song(s) mentioned in the question. Your responses should be a total of at least 250 words between the two questions below, though you may certainly write more if you deem it necessary.

Question 1:

Hypnotic Brass Ensemble is a New York-based, nine-piece brass band, originally hailing from Chicago. The band has performed alongside artists such as Mos Def, Aquilla Sadalla, Tony Allen, Phil Cohran and have recorded with the likes of Maxwell and Erykah Badu. Please listen to Balicky Bon from the group’s sophomore album, Jupiter (you may find a Mp3 file attached in the reading section)” and answer the following questions. Hypnotic Brass Ensemble classifies its music as “hip-hop.” After to listening to their music, do you agree with their classification? Why or why not? What elements of African musical expression does their music embody? How does their music continue the tradition of connecting hip-hop music to jazz music? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7adxCL3O14

Question 2:

Amazing Grace, a treasured Christian hymn written in Olney, England by former slave trader John Newton, is perhaps the most well known song in world. Music journalist Steve Turner describes it as “America’s most beloved song.” Performing rights organizations ASCAP and BMI collectively list 972 separate arrangements of the song. The version of Amazing Grace performed by Judy Collins, released in December of 1971, soared to the top of the best-seller charts in the US and UK, and helped re-popularize it. Please listen to Judy Collins’ rendition of the song. You may do so by clicking here:
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Another popular rendition of Amazing Grace was performed by Aretha Franklin during a live recording at New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles. Please listen to the Aretha Franklin rendition of the song. You may do so by clicking here:

Though the two women sing the same words, at times the two renditions could be no more different. Judy Collins’s rendition covered four stanzas and repeated the first stanza in four minutes and four seconds. Aretha only sung two stanzas in the period of fourteen minutes. How does Aretha Franklin’s rendition incorporate elements unique to African musical expression? How does the difference between the Collins’ rendition and the Franklin rendition illustrate the difference between the Eurocentric style of musical expression and the African style of musical expression as described Ortiz Walton?

I have attached the readings you should use for the source

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