African popular music, like African traditional music, is vast and varied. Most contemporary genres of African popular music build on cross-pollination with western popular music. While Western popular music adopted elements of African music, African music adopted elements (particularly the studio techniques) of western music.^[1] Hand drumming has a significant role in African music African music is as vast and varied as the continents many nations and ethnic groups, so a general description of African music is not possible. ...

Afropop

Afropop or Afro Pop is a term sometimes used to refer to contemporary African pop music, usually urban, electric dance music. The term does not refer to a specific style or sound^[2], but is used as a general term to describe popular African music.

Genres

Genres of popular African Music include:

Afrobeat is a combination of Yoruba music, jazz, and funk rhythms, fused with African percussion and vocal styles, popularized in Africa in the mid to late 1960s. ... Apala is a musical genre, originally derived from the Yoruba people of Nigeria. ... There is also Benga in the province of Nyanga, see Benga, Gabon Benga is a musical genre of Kenyan popular music. ... Bikutsi is a musical genre from Cameroon. ... Fuji is a style of popular Nigerian music, fuck in the early 1970s by the one and only Fuji Creator, Alhaji Sikiru Ayinde Barrister. ... Highlife is a musical genre that originated in Ghana and Sierra Leone in the 1920s and spread to other West African countries. ... Isicathamiya is a singing style originated from the South African Zulus. ... JIT can stand for Just-in-time compilation - a technique for improving the performance of interpreter in computing Just in time - the business technique Jabber-ICQ-Transport This page concerning a three-letter acronym or abbreviation is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise... Jùjú is a style of Nigerian popular music, derived from traditional Yoruba percussion. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Kwela is a happy, often pennywhistle based, street music from southern Africa with jazzy underpinnings. ... Makossa is a type of music which is most popular in urban areas in Cameroon. ... Mbalax is a genre of popular music developed in Senegal and Gambia. ... Mbaqanga is a style of South African music that is usually sung by people from rural areas. ... Mbube is a form of South African vocal music, made famous by the South African group Ladysmith Black Mambazo. ... A typical morna group. ... Palm-wine music (known as maringa in Sierra Leone) is a West African musical genre. ... Raï (Arabic: راي) is a form of folk music, originated in Oran, Algeria from Bedouin shepherds, mixed with Spanish, French, African-American and Arabic musical forms, which dates back to the 1930s and has been primarily evolved by women in the culture. ... Rumba is both a family of music rhythms and a dance style that originated in Africa and traveled via the slave trade to Cuba and the New World. ... 1) The Sakara is a traditional percussion instrument from Nigeria. ... // Soukous is a musical genre that originated in the Congos during the 1930s and early 1940s, and which has gained popularity throughout Africa. ... Taarab is a kind of East African music, most popular in Tanzania and Kenya. ...

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