Mbalax, the Glossary
Mbalax (or mbalakh) is the urban dance music of Senegal and the Gambia.[1]
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53 relations: Alioune Mbaye Nder, Étoile de Dakar, Balafon, Bradt Travel Guides, Cassette tape, Côte d'Ivoire, Congolese rumba, Coumba Gawlo, Coupé-décalé, Electric guitar, Flute, France, Funk, Goje, Griot, Habib Faye, Hip hop music, Ismaël Lô, Jazz, Mali, Mauritania, Mokobé, Ndut initiation rite, Neneh Cherry, Njuup, Omar Pene, Pape Diouf (artist), Piano, Raam Daan, Rhythm and blues, Right for Education, Rock music, Sabar, Sage Publishing, Senegal, Serer people, Soul music, Super Diamono, Synthesizer, Talking drum, Temple University Press, The Gambia, Thione Seck, Titi (singer), Trumpet, Violin, Viviane Ndour, Wolof language, Wolof people, Youssou N'Dour, ... Expand index (3 more) »
- Music of Senegal
- Music of the Gambia
- Serer culture
Alioune Mbaye Nder
Alioune Palla Mbaye dit « Nder » (born April 28th 1969, Tivaouane, Senegal) is a Senegalese singer.
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Étoile de Dakar
Étoile de Dakar (“Star of Dakar”) were a leading music group of Senegal in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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Balafon
The balafon (pronounced, or, by analogy with xylophone etc.) is a gourd-resonated xylophone, a type of struck idiophone.
Bradt Travel Guides
Bradt Travel Guides is a publisher of travel guides founded in 1974 by Hilary Bradt and her husband George, who co-wrote the first Bradt Guide on a river barge on a tributary of the Amazon.
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Cassette tape
The Compact Cassette, also commonly called a cassette tape, audio cassette, or simply tape or cassette, is an analog magnetic tape recording format for audio recording and playback.
Côte d'Ivoire
Côte d'Ivoire, also known as Ivory Coast and officially known as the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, is a country on the southern coast of West Africa.
Congolese rumba
Congolese rumba, also known as African rumba, is a dance music genre originating from the Republic of the Congo (formerly French Congo) and Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire).
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Coumba Gawlo
Coumba Gawlo Seck is a Senegalese singer-songwriter and composer who was born in February 1972 in Tivaouane.
Coupé-décalé
Coupé-décalé is a type of popular dance music originating in Côte d'Ivoire.
Electric guitar
An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar.
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Flute
The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group.
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France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.
Funk
Funk is a music genre that originated in African-American communities in the mid-1960s when musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of various music genres that were popular among African-Americans in the mid-20th century.
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Goje
The goje (the Hausa name for the instrument) is one of the many names for a variety of one or one-stringed fiddles from West Africa, played by groups such as the Yoruba in Sakara music and west African groups that inhabit the Sahel.
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Griot
A griot (Manding: jali or jeli (in N'Ko: ߖߋߟߌ, djeli or djéli in French spelling); kevel or kewel / okawul; gewel) is a West African historian, storyteller, praise singer, poet, and/or musician.
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Habib Faye
Habib Faye (November 22, 1965 – April 25, 2018) was a bassist, keyboardist, guitar soloist, arranger, composer and Grammy-nominated producer from Senegal.
Hip hop music
Hip hop or hip-hop, also known as rap and formerly as disco rap, is a genre of popular music that originated in the early 1970s from the African American community.
Ismaël Lô
Ismaël Lô (also Ismaël Lo; born 1956) is a Senegalese musician and actor.
Jazz
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 and African rhythmic rituals.
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Mali
Mali, officially the Republic of Mali, is a landlocked country in West Africa.
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Mauritania
Mauritania, officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, is a sovereign country in Northwest Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Western Sahara to the north and northwest, Algeria to the northeast, Mali to the east and southeast, and Senegal to the southwest. By land area Mauritania is the 11th-largest country in Africa and 28th-largest in the world; 90% of its territory is in the Sahara.
Mokobé
Mokobé Traoré (born 24 May 1980 in Vitry-sur-Seine, France), better known by the mononym Mokobé, is a Malian–French rapper and part of the music collective 113 alongside Rim'K and AP and within the greater French musical project and collective Mafia K-1 Fry.
Ndut initiation rite
The Ndut is a rite of passage as well as a religious education commanded by Serer religion that every Serer (an ethnic group found in Senegal, the Gambia and Mauritania) must go through once in their lifetime. Mbalax and Ndut initiation rite are Serer culture.
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Neneh Cherry
Neneh Mariann Karlsson; born 10 March 1964), better known as Neneh Cherry, is a Swedish singer, songwriter, rapper, occasional disc jockey and broadcaster. Her musical career started in London in the early 1980s, where she performed in a number of punk and post-punk bands in her youth, including the Slits and Rip Rig + Panic.
Njuup
The Njuup tradition is a Serer style of music rooted in the Ndut initiation rite, which is a rite of passage that young Serers must go through once in their lifetime as commanded in the Serer religion. Mbalax and Njuup are music of Senegal, music of the Gambia and Serer culture.
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Omar Pene
Omar Pene (born 28th December 1955) is a Senegalese vocalist and composer, who is the lead singer of Super Diamono, and is now a solo artist.
Pape Diouf (artist)
Pape Cheikh Diouf (born 1973) known by his stage name Pape Diouf, is a musical artist from Dakar, Senegal.
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Piano
The piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, through engagement of an action whose hammers strike strings.
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Raam Daan
Raam Daan is a mbalax band from Senegal.
Rhythm and blues
Rhythm and blues, frequently abbreviated as R&B or R'n'B, is a genre of popular music that originated within African-American communities in the 1940s.
See Mbalax and Rhythm and blues
Right for Education
The Right for Education Foundation is a not-for profit organization based in Ghana.
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Rock music
Rock is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles from the mid-1960s, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom.
Sabar
The sabar is a traditional drum from Senegal that is also played in the Gambia. Mbalax and sabar are Serer culture.
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Sage Publishing
Sage Publishing, formerly SAGE Publications, is an American independent academic publishing company, founded in 1965 in New York City by Sara Miller McCune and now based in the Newbury Park neighborhood of Thousand Oaks, California.
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Senegal
Senegal, officially the Republic of Senegal, is the westernmost country in West Africa, situated on the Atlantic Ocean coastline. Senegal is bordered by Mauritania to the north, Mali to the east, Guinea to the southeast and Guinea-Bissau to the southwest. Senegal nearly surrounds The Gambia, a country occupying a narrow sliver of land along the banks of the Gambia River, which separates Senegal's southern region of Casamance from the rest of the country.
Serer people
The Serer people are a West African ethnoreligious group.
Soul music
Soul music is a popular music genre that originated in the African-American community throughout the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Super Diamono
Super Diamono was a ten-member band from Dakar, Senegal. Mbalax and Super Diamono are music of Senegal and music of the Gambia.
Synthesizer
A synthesizer (also synthesiser, or simply synth) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals.
Talking drum
The talking drum is an hourglass-shaped drum from West Africa, whose pitch can be regulated to mimic the tone and prosody of human speech. Mbalax and talking drum are Serer culture.
Temple University Press
Temple University Press is a university press founded in 1969 that is part of Temple University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania).
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The Gambia
The Gambia, officially the Republic of The Gambia, is a country in West Africa.
Thione Seck
Thione Ballago Seck (March 12, 1955 – March 14, 2021) was a Senegalese singer and songwriter in the mbalakh genre.
Titi (singer)
Titi, also known by her real name Ndeye Fatou Tine, is a singer from Senegal.
Trumpet
The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles.
Violin
The violin, colloquially known as a fiddle, is a wooden chordophone, and is the smallest, and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in regular use in the violin family.
Viviane Ndour
Viviane (born Viviane Chidid) is a Senegalese pop singer who is the former backing vocalist and former sister-in-law of Youssou N'Dour.
Wolof language
Wolof (Wolof làkk, وࣷلࣷفْ لࣵکّ) is a Niger–Congo language spoken by the Wolof people in much of West African subregion of Senegambia that is split between the countries of Senegal, Mauritania, and the Gambia.
Wolof people
The Wolof people are a West African ethnic group found in northwestern Senegal, the Gambia, and southwestern coastal Mauritania.
Youssou N'Dour
Youssou N'Dour (Yuusu Nduur; also known as Youssou Madjiguène Ndour; born 1 October 1959) is a Senegalese singer, songwriter, musician, composer, occasional actor, businessman, and politician.
Yusupha Ngum
Yusupha Ngum is a singer and songwriter from Gambia, also known by the stage name "Joloffman".
Zouk
Zouk is a musical movement pioneered by the French Antillean band Kassav' in the early 1980s.
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7 Seconds (song)
"7 Seconds" is a song composed by Senegalese and Swedish singer-songwriters Youssou N'Dour and Neneh Cherry with Cameron McVey and Jonathan Sharp.
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See also
Music of Senegal
- Géédy Dayaan
- Mbalax
- Music of Senegal
- National Anthem of the Mali Federation
- Njuup
- Senegal Music Awards
- Senegalese hip hop
- Super Diamono
- Wolof music
Music of the Gambia
- For The Gambia Our Homeland
- Géédy Dayaan
- Gambian hip hop
- Mbalax
- Music of the Gambia
- Njuup
- Super Diamono
Serer culture
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbalax
Also known as Mbalakh.