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Afrobeats is also sometimes referred to as Afro-pop [29] [37] [3] and Afro-fusion. [38] [39] A few artists have used the same alternative names to describe their music; Don Jazzy has stated he prefers "Afro-pop" rather than Afrobeats. [29] Wizkid, Burna Boy, and Davido all use Afro-fusion or Afro-pop to describe their music.
Afrobeat (also known as Afrofunk [1] [2]) is a West African music genre, fusing influences from Nigerian (such as Yoruba and Igbo music) and Ghanaian (such as highlife) music, with American funk, jazz, and soul influences. [3]
The clave pattern is also found in the African diaspora music of Haitian Vodou drumming, Afro-Brazilian music, African-American music, Louisiana Voodoo drumming, and Afro-Uruguayan music . The clave pattern (or hambone, as it is known in the United States) is used in North American popular music as a rhythmic motif or simply a form of rhythmic ...
Boeremusiek (Afrikaans: ‘Boer music’ or 'Farmer's music') is a predominantly instrumental form of folk music that originated in South Africa.Initially intended to accompany informal social dancing, Boeremusiek developed through a fusion of European, African, and American musical traditions.
It features vocals by South African singer Musa Keys and was released on 11 April 2023, as the second single his fourth studio album Timeless (2023). [ 1 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] "Unavailable" peaked at number 1 on the UK Afrobeats Singles Chart for five weeks and reached number 3 on the Billboard U.S. Afrobeats Songs chart.
In African music, this is a cross-rhythmic fragment generated through cross-rhythm: 8 pulses ÷ 3 = 2 cross-beats (consisting of three pulses each) with a remainder of a partial cross-beat (spanning two pulses). In divisive form, the strokes of tresillo contradict the beats while in additive form, the strokes of tresillo are the beats. From a ...
Non-commercial African-American radio stations promoted African music as part of their cultural and political missions in the 1960s and 1970s. African music also found eager audiences at Historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and appealed particularly to activists in the civil rights and Black Power movements. [28]
Traditional sub-Saharan African harmony is a music theory of harmony in sub-Saharan African music based on the principles of homophonic parallelism (chords based around a leading melody that follow its rhythm and contour), homophonic polyphony (independent parts moving together), counter-melody (secondary melody) and ostinato-variation (variations based on a repeated theme).