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African blues is a genre of popular music, primarily from West Africa. The term may also reference a putative journey undertaken by traditional African music from its homeland to the United States and back. [ 1 ]
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Blues is a music genre [3] and musical form that originated amongst African-Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. [2] Blues has incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the African-American culture.
Pages in category "Blues music genres" The following 39 pages are in this category, out of 39 total. ... African blues; Anatolian blues; B. Blues ballad; Boogie rock ...
Genealogy of musical genres; This list is split into four separate pages: List of styles of music: A–F; List of styles of music: G–M; List of styles of music: N–R; List of styles of music: S–Z; List of country genres; List of electronic music genres; Styles of house music; List of industrial music genres; List of trance genres; List of ...
Mento is a style of Jamaican music that predates and has greatly influenced ska, which was also fused with African traditions, American jazz and blues. Subsequent styles besides ska include, rocksteady and raggamuffin. (Mical 1995) Along with the rise of ska came the popularity of deejays who began talking stylistically over the rhythms of ...
Desert blues (2 C, 3 P) Music of Djibouti (3 C, 2 P) E. ... Pages in category "African music genres" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
African music has been a major factor in the shaping of what we know today as Dixieland, the blues, and jazz. These styles have all borrowed from African rhythms and sounds, brought over the Atlantic Ocean by enslaved Africans. African music in Sub-Saharan Africa is mostly upbeat polyrhythmic and joyful, whereas the blues should be viewed as an ...