African popular music
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- "Afropop" redirects here. For the radio program, see Afropop Worldwide.
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]
[edit] 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.
[edit] Genres
Genres of popular African Music include:
[edit] References
- ^ Scaruffi, Piero. (2007). A History of Popular Music before Rock Music. ISBN 978-0-9765531-2-0
- ^ "African on your street: Glossary (BBC)"
