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  2. Rhythm in Sub-Saharan Africa - Wikipedia

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    West African rhythmic techniques carried over the Atlantic were fundamental ingredients in various musical styles of the Americas: samba, forró, maracatu and coco in Brazil, Afro-Cuban music and Afro-American musical genres such as blues, jazz, rhythm & blues, funk, soul, reggae, hip hop, and rock and roll were thereby of immense importance in ...

  3. Traditional sub-Saharan African harmony - Wikipedia

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    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).

  4. Afro-Cuban jazz - Wikipedia

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    Afro-Cuban jazz is the earliest form of Latin jazz.It mixes Afro-Cuban clave-based rhythms with jazz harmonies and techniques of improvisation. Afro-Cuban music has deep roots in African ritual and rhythm. [1]

  5. Jazz - Wikipedia

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    Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony, African rhythmic rituals, spirituals, hymns, marches, vaudeville song, and dance music.

  6. List of jazz genres - Wikipedia

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    Cape jazz (more often written Cape Jazz) is a genre of jazz that is performed in the southernmost part of Africa, the name being a reference to Cape Town, South Africa. 1990s -> Chamber jazz: Chamber jazz is a genre of jazz involving small, acoustic-based ensembles where group interplay is important. 1960s -> Continental jazz

  7. How the CIA used jazz greats as cover for a 1961 coup in Africa

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    Read more:Review: Jazz, African independence, secret agents — it's all in 'Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat' ... with a keen focus on visual rhythm and bursts of surprise. “There's always a new ...

  8. Tresillo (rhythm) - Wikipedia

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    Tresillo is the rhythmic basis of many African and Afro-Cuban drum rhythms, as well as the ostinato bass tumbao in Cuban son-based musics, such as son montuno, mambo, salsa, and Latin jazz. [12] [13] The example below shows a tresillo-based tumbao from "Alza los pies Congo" by Septeto Habanero (1925).

  9. Sub-Saharan African music traditions - Wikipedia

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    To share rhythm is to form a group consciousness, to entrain with one another, [7] to be part of the collective rhythm of life to which all are invited to contribute. [8] African ethnic groups. Yoruba dancers and drummers, for instance, express communal desires, values, and collective creativity. The drumming represents an underlying linguistic ...