Talk:Music of the African diaspora
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[edit] Merge
Can we consider merging Music of the African diaspora and Afro-American music, preferably under the title Music of the African diaspora? Afro-American music to me, and I think most people, refers to music of the United States, and it seems strange to see Latin American and Caribbean music there. Outside the Americas, music of African heritage is largely confined to Britain and on occasion Holland, France, Belgium and Germany which can be included in the new title. Thoughts please?-- Zleitzen(talk) 00:46, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Text dump
A collection of sections from different relevant articles can be found here: Wikipedia:WikiProject African diaspora/Music of the African diaspora text dump. It is hoped that the text dump would help with the development of the structure of this article. -- Zleitzen(talk) 05:13, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Scope
Hmm, what is the scope of this article. I just brought over the lead from the existing article, but I'm still wondering: is this article about all music by descendants of African people not in Africa? What about blues, jazz, rap, and rock music which has gone back to Africa (Ali Farka Toure)? I guess I'm wondering a few other things, but this is my first question. Smmurphy(Talk) 04:54, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
- Good question. My take is that its an article about music by descendants of African people thoughout the world. Focusing primarily on genres, and ideally exhibiting chronological and geographic threads. So we have something like this:
- Lead. Three paragraphs of overview.
- Geographical sections
- Caribbean
- Europe
- United States (and North America)
- Latin America
- Elsewhere
- Analysis and literature on the subject
- Each geographical section, perhaps no more than three paragraphs each, would cross reference each other, and basically be an overview that allows for wiki-links to the many articles such as Jazz, Ska, Hip Hop etc.-- Zleitzen(talk) 05:26, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
- Good starting point, in my opinion. Smmurphy raises an interesting question as well. I definitely think the influences and cross influences of music of the African diaspora, including those returning to African music (Touré, Dibango, Fela Kuti etc.) should be mentioned in the artilce. For the moment, I suggest to keep the Analysis and literature on the subject as inclusive as possible. The structure of my online attention and availibity of useful sources make me a somewhat dissipated and frittering user, but this is definitely a project to which I would like to contribute. ---Sluzzelin talk 15:24, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
- I've added some basic material on the Caribbean as a start.-- Zleitzen(talk) 00:45, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
