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James Brown's funk music, dance style, and African-American drumming influenced Afrobeat. [102] In London, Kuti joined jazz and rock bands, and returned to Nigeria, creating Afrobeat by fusing African-American and traditional Yoruba music with Highlife music .
Go-go is a subgenre of funk music with an emphasis on specific rhythmic patterns, and live audience call and response.. Go-go was originated by African-American musicians in Washington, D.C., during the mid-1960s to late-1970s.
In the 1970s, funk used many of the same vocal styles that were used in African-American music in the 1960s, including singing influences from blues, gospel, jazz and doo-wop. [38] Like these other African-American styles, funk used "[y]ells, shouts, hollers, moans, humming, and melodic riffs", along with styles such as call and response and ...
Garifuna music; Music of Belize; Music of Honduras; Hunguhungu; Haitian music (see page for full list of musical forms) Jamaica; Dancehall; Dub; Lovers rock; Mento; Ragga; Reggae; Rocksteady; Roots reggae; Ska; Music of the Lesser Antilles; Zouk; Music of Anguilla; Music of Antigua and Barbuda; Music of Aruba and the Netherlands Antilles; Music ...
African American musical styles became an integral part of American popular music through blues, jazz, rhythm and blues, and then rock and roll, soul, and hip hop; all of these styles were consumed by Americans of all races, but were created in African American styles and idioms before eventually becoming common in performance and consumption ...
Since opening in 2020 during shelter-in-place, the Filipino- and Indian-owned storefront has become one of the only remaining spaces that specializes in niche hip-hop, soul, jazz, and funk.
Afrobeat (also known as Afrofunk [3] [4]) is a West African music genre, fusing influences from Yoruba music [5] [6] and Ghanaian music (such as highlife), [7] with American funk, jazz, and soul influences.
George Edward Clinton [6] (born July 22, 1941 [7]) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer and bandleader. [8] His Parliament-Funkadelic collective (which primarily recorded under the distinct band names Parliament and Funkadelic) developed an influential and eclectic form of funk music during the 1970s that drew on Afrofuturism, outlandish fashion, psychedelia, and surreal humor. [9]