Music of Africa, the Glossary
Given the vastness of the African continent, its music is diverse, with regions and nations having many distinct musical traditions.[1]
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272 relations: Abatte Barihun, Adhan, Africa, Africa (Roman province), African diaspora, African heavy metal, African popular music, Afro fusion, Afro rock, Afrobeat, Agogô, Algaita, Ambassel scale, Americas, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, Ancient Near East, Ancient Rome, Andalusi classical music, Anglican church music, Arab world, Arabic music, Arthur Morris Jones, Ashenafi Kebede, Atlantic slave trade, Babatunde Olatunji, Banjo, Bantu languages, BBC, Berber music, Bilal ibn Rabah, Blue note, Bluegrass music, Blues, Bomba (Puerto Rico), Bougarabou, Broadcasting, Caliphate, Call and response, Calypso music, Cameroon, Carthage, Central Africa, Childbirth, Christianity, Chromatic scale, Circle of Life, Clave (rhythm), Conga (music), Congo Basin, ... Expand index (222 more) »
Abatte Barihun
Abatte Barihun (אבטה בריהון, born 1967) is an Israeli jazz saxophonist and composer.
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Adhan
The (adhān) is the first Islamic call to prayer, usually recited by a muezzin at five times of the day in a mosque, traditionally from a minaret.
Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.
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Africa (Roman province)
Africa was a Roman province on the northern coast of the continent of Africa.
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African diaspora
The global African diaspora is the worldwide collection of communities descended from people from Africa, predominantly in the Americas.
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African heavy metal refers to the heavy metal music scene in Africa, particularly in East African countries such as Kenya and Uganda, and Southern African countries including Namibia, Madagascar, Angola, Botswana, South Africa, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe.
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African popular music
African popular music (also styled Afropop, Afro-pop, Afro pop or African pop), like African traditional music, is vast and varied.
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Afro fusion
Afro fusion (also spelled afrofusion or afro-fusion) is a dance and musical style that emerged between the 1970s and 2000s.
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Afro rock
Afro rock is a style of rock music with African influences.
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Afrobeat
Afrobeat (also known as Afrofunk) is a Nigerian music genre that involves the combination of West African musical styles from Ghana and Nigeria but mainly Nigeria, such as the traditional Yoruba and Igbo music and highlife, with American funk, jazz, and soul influences.
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Agogô
An agogô (Yoruba: agogo, meaning bell) is a single or a multiple bell now used throughout the world but with origins in traditional Yoruba and Edo music and also in the samba baterias (percussion ensembles).
Algaita
The algaita (also spelled alghaita, algayta or algheita) is a double reed wind instrument from the Sahelian region of West-Central Africa that is used by the Bamum, Hausa and Kanuri peoples in Cameroon and Nigeria.
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Ambassel scale
The Ambassel scale (አምባሳል ቅኝት) is a pentatonic scale widely used in the Gonder and Wollo regions of Ethiopia.
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Americas
The Americas, sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North America and South America.
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Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeast Africa.
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Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece (Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity, that comprised a loose collection of culturally and linguistically related city-states and other territories.
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Ancient Near East
The ancient Near East was the home of early civilizations within a region roughly corresponding to the modern Middle East: Mesopotamia (modern Iraq, southeast Turkey, southwest Iran, and northeastern Syria), ancient Egypt, ancient Persia (Elam, Media, Parthia, and Persis), Anatolia and the Armenian highlands (Turkey's Eastern Anatolia Region, Armenia, northwestern Iran, southern Georgia, and western Azerbaijan), the Levant (modern Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Jordan and Cyprus) and the Arabian Peninsula.
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Ancient Rome
In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman civilisation from the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD.
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Andalusi classical music
Andalusi classical music (ṭarab ʾandalusī; música andalusí), also called Andalusi music or Arab-Andalusian music, is a genre of music originally developed in al-Andalus by the Muslim population of the region and the Moors.
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Anglican church music
Anglican church music is music that is written for Christian worship in Anglican religious services, forming part of the liturgy.
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Arab world
The Arab world (اَلْعَالَمُ الْعَرَبِيُّ), formally the Arab homeland (اَلْوَطَنُ الْعَرَبِيُّ), also known as the Arab nation (اَلْأُمَّةُ الْعَرَبِيَّةُ), the Arabsphere, or the Arab states, comprises a large group of countries, mainly located in Western Asia and Northern Africa.
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Arabic music
Arabic music (al-mūsīqā al-ʿarabīyyah) is the music of the Arab world with all its diverse music styles and genres.
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Arthur Morris Jones
Arthur Morris Jones (1889–1980), was an English missionary and musicologist who worked in Zambia during the early 20th century.
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Ashenafi Kebede
Ashenafi Kebede (አሸናፊ ከበደ; 1938 – May 8, 1998) was an Ethiopian composer, conductor, ethnomusicologist, historical musicologist, music educator, novelist, and poet.
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Atlantic slave trade
The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people to the Americas.
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Babatunde Olatunji
Michael Babatunde Olatunji (April 7, 1927 – April 6, 2003) was a Nigerian drummer, educator, social activist, and recording artist.
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Banjo
The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator.
Bantu languages
The Bantu languages (English:, Proto-Bantu: *bantʊ̀) are a language family of about 600 languages that are spoken by the Bantu peoples of Central, Southern, Eastern and Southeast Africa.
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BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.
Berber music
Berber music refers to the musical traditions of the Berbers, a diverse grouping of distinct ethnic groups indigenous to North Africa who predate the arrival of Arabs in the Arab migration to the Maghreb.
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Bilal ibn Rabah
Bilāl ibn Rabāḥ (بِلَال بِن رَبَاح) (5 March 580 – 2 March 640), was one of the Sahabah (companions) of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
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Blue note
In jazz and blues, a blue note is a note that—for expressive purposes—is sung or played at a slightly different pitch from standard.
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Bluegrass music
Bluegrass music is a genre of American roots music that developed in the 1940s in the Appalachian region of the United States.
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Blues
Blues is a music genre and musical form that originated amongst African-Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s.
Bomba (Puerto Rico)
Bomba is an umbrella term that refers to a variety of musical styles and associated dances originating in Puerto Rico.
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Bougarabou
A bougarabou (alternative spelling “Boucarabou”) is a set of drums commonly used in West Africa.
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Broadcasting
Broadcasting is the distribution of audio or video content to a dispersed audience via any electronic mass communications medium, but typically one using the electromagnetic spectrum (radio waves), in a one-to-many model.
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Caliphate
A caliphate or khilāfah (خِلَافَةْ) is a monarchical form of government (initially elective, later absolute) that originated in the 7th century Arabia, whose political identity is based on a claim of succession to the Islamic State of Muhammad and the identification of a monarch called caliph (خَلِيفَةْ) as his heir and successor.
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Call and response
Call and response is a form of interaction between a speaker and an audience in which the speaker's statements ("calls") are punctuated by responses from the listeners.
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Calypso music
Calypso is a style of Caribbean music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago during the early to mid-19th century and spread to the rest of the Caribbean Antilles by the mid-20th century.
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Cameroon
Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon, is a country in Central Africa.
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Carthage
Carthage was an ancient city in Northern Africa, on the eastern side of the Lake of Tunis in what is now Tunisia.
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Central Africa
Central Africa is a subregion of the African continent comprising various countries according to different definitions.
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Childbirth
Childbirth, also known as labour, parturition and delivery, is the completion of pregnancy where one or more babies exits the internal environment of the mother via vaginal delivery or caesarean section.
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Christianity
Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
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Chromatic scale
The chromatic scale (or twelve-tone scale) is a set of twelve pitches (more completely, pitch classes) used in tonal music, with notes separated by the interval of a semitone.
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Circle of Life
"Circle of Life" is a song from Disney's 1994 animated feature film The Lion King.
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Clave (rhythm)
The clave is a rhythmic pattern used as a tool for temporal organization in Brazilian and Cuban music.
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Conga (music)
The term conga refers to the music groups within Cuban comparsas and the music they play.
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Congo Basin
The Congo Basin (Bassin du Congo) is the sedimentary basin of the Congo River.
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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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Copyright
A copyright is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the exclusive legal right to copy, distribute, adapt, display, and perform a creative work, usually for a limited time.
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Cross-beat
In music, a cross-beat or cross-rhythm is a specific form of polyrhythm.
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Cuban rumba
Rumba is a secular genre of Cuban music involving dance, percussion, and song.
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Cumbia
Cumbia refers to a number of musical rhythms and folk dance traditions of Latin America, generally involving musical and cultural elements from American Indigenous peoples, Europeans and enslaved Africans during colonial times.
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Dixieland jazz
Dixieland jazz, also referred to as traditional jazz, hot jazz, or simply Dixieland, is a style of jazz based on the music that developed in New Orleans at the start of the 20th century.
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Djembe
A djembe or jembe (from Malinke jembe, N'Ko: ߖߋ߲߰ߓߋ) is a rope-tuned skin-covered goblet drum played with bare hands, originally from West Africa.
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Drum
The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments.
Drums in communication
Developed and used by cultures living in forested areas, drums served as an early form of long-distance communication, and were used during ceremonial and religious functions.
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Early Muslim conquests
The early Muslim conquests or early Islamic conquests (translit), also known as the Arab conquests, were initiated in the 7th century by Muhammad, the founder of Islam.
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Egypt
Egypt (مصر), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and the Sinai Peninsula in the southwest corner of Asia.
Ethnomusicology
Ethnomusicology (from Greek ἔθνος ethnos ‘nation’ and μουσική mousike ‘music’) is the multidisciplinary study of music in its cultural context, investigating social, cognitive, biological, comparative, and other dimensions involved other than sound. Ethnomusicologists study music as a reflection of culture and investigate the act of musicking through various immersive, observational, and analytical approaches drawn from other disciplines such as anthropology to understand a culture’s music.
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Fela Kuti
Fela Aníkúlápó Kútì (born Olufela Olusegun Oludotun Ransome-Kuti; 15 October 1938 – 2 August 1997) was a Nigerian musician and political activist.
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Femi Kuti
Olufela Olufemi Anikulapo Kuti (born 16 June 1962), popularly known as Femi Kuti, is a Nigerian musician born in London and raised in Lagos.
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Fiddle
A fiddle is a bowed string musical instrument, most often a violin.
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Flute
The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group.
Folk music
Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival.
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Freshlyground
Freshlyground was a band formed in Cape Town, South Africa, in 2002.
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Fuji music
Fújì is a popular Yoruba musical genre.
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Gerhard Kubik
Gerhard Kubik (born 10 December 1934) is an Austrian music ethnologist from Vienna.
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Ghana
Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa.
Ginger Baker
Peter Edward "Ginger" Baker (19 August 1939 – 6 October 2019) was an English drummer.
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Ginger Baker's Air Force
Ginger Baker's Air Force was a jazz-rock fusion supergroup led by drummer Ginger Baker.
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Golden Sounds
Golden Sounds, later known as Zangaléwa, was a makossa group from Cameroon, formed in 1984 by active members of Cameroon's presidential guard: Jean Paul Zé Bella, Dooh Belley, Luc Eyebe and Emile Kojidie.
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Graceland (album)
Graceland is the seventh solo studio album by the American singer-songwriter Paul Simon.
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Gravikord
The Gravikord is a 24 string electric double bridge-harp invented by Robert Grawi in 1984, which is closely related to both the West African kora and the mbira.
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Habesha peoples
Habesha peoples (ሐበሠተ; ሐበሻ; ሓበሻ; commonly used exonym: Abyssinians) is an ethnic or pan-ethnic identifier that has been historically employed to refer to Semitic-speaking and predominantly Oriental Orthodox Christian peoples found in the highlands of Ethiopia and Eritrea between Asmara and Addis Ababa (i.e.
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Harp
The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers.
He Lives in You
"He Lives in You" is a song written and performed by Lebo M and his South African Choir and co-written by Mark Mancina and Jay Rifkin, originally for Rhythm of the Pride Lands, a 1995 album inspired by the 1994 film The Lion King.
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Heptatonic scale
A heptatonic scale is a musical scale that has seven pitches, or tones, per octave.
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Hexatonic scale
In music and music theory, a hexatonic scale is a scale with six pitches or notes per octave.
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Highlife
Highlife is a Ghanaian music genre that originated along the coastal cities of present-day Ghana in the 19th century, during its history as a colony of the British and through its trade routes in coastal areas.
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History of Persian Egypt
The history of Persian Egypt is divided into two eras following the first Achaemenid conquest of Egypt punctuated by an interval of independence.
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Hugh Masekela
Hugh Ramapolo Masekela (4 April 1939 – 23 January 2018) was a South African trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, singer and composer who was described as "the father of South African jazz".
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Hugh Tracey
Hugh Travers Tracey was an English ethnomusicologist.
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Hunting
Hunting is the human practice of seeking, pursuing, capturing, and killing wildlife or feral animals.
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Ian Brennan (music producer)
Ian Brennan (born June 15, 1966) is an American music producer.
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International Library of African Music
The International Library of African Music (ILAM) is an organization dedicated to the preservation and study of African music.
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Intonation (music)
In music, intonation is the pitch accuracy of a musician or musical instrument.
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Isicathamiya
Isicathamiya (where the c represents a tenuis dental click) is a singing style that originated from the Zulu people, a South African ethnic group.
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Islam in Africa
Islam in Africa is the continent's second most widely professed faith behind Christianity.
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Islamic music
Islamic music may refer to religious music, as performed in Islamic public services or private devotions, or more generally to musical traditions of the Muslim world.
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Jaiva
Jaiva, Township jive (TJ), Soweto jive, Soweto sound or Soweto beat is a subgenre of South African township music and African dance form that influenced Western breakdance and emerged from the shebeen culture of the apartheid-era townships.
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.
Jùjú music
Jùjú is a style of Yoruba popular music, derived from traditional Yoruba percussion.
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Kaiso
Kaiso is a type of music popular in Trinidad and Tobago, and other countries, especially of the Caribbean, such as Grenada, Belize, Barbados, St. Lucia and Dominica, which originated in West Africa particularly among the Efik and Ibibio people of Nigeria, and later evolved into calypso music.
Kashaka
The kashaka is a simple percussion instrument consisting of two small gourds filled with beans (essentially, two small maracas connected by a string.) One gourd is held in the hand and the other is quickly swung from side to side around the hand, creating a "clack" sound upon impact.
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Kizomba
Kizomba is a social dance and music genre that originated in Angola during late 1970s to early 1980s.
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Kora (instrument)
The kora (Manding languages: italics kɔra) is a stringed instrument used extensively in West Africa.
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Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Ladysmith Black Mambazo is a South African male choral group singing in the local vocal styles of isicathamiya and mbube.
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Lamellophone
A lamellophone (also lamellaphone or linguaphone) is a member of the family of musical instruments that makes its sound by a thin vibrating plate called a lamella or tongue, which is fixed at one end and has the other end free.
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Languages of Africa
The number of languages natively spoken in Africa is variously estimated (depending on the delineation of language vs. dialect) at between 1,250 and 2,100, and by some counts at over 3,000.
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List of African guitarists
This is a list of influential African guitarists.
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List of Caribbean music genres
Caribbean music genres are very diverse.
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List of music genres and styles
This is a list of music genres and styles.
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List of regions of Africa
The continent of Africa is commonly divided into five regions or subregions, four of which are in sub-Saharan Africa.
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List of sovereign states and dependent territories in Africa
This is a list of sovereign states and dependent territories in Africa.
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Lute
A lute is any plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening in the body.
Maghreb
The Maghreb (lit), also known as the Arab Maghreb (اَلْمَغْرِبُ الْعَرَبِيُّ) and Northwest Africa, is the western part of the Arab world.
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Major scale
The major scale (or Ionian mode) is one of the most commonly used musical scales, especially in Western music.
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Makossa
Makossa is a music genre originating in Douala, Littoral Region, French Cameroons in the late 19th century.
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Manu Dibango
Emmanuel N'Djoké "Manu" Dibango (12 December 1933 – 24 March 2020) was a Cameroonian musician and songwriter who played saxophone and vibraphone.
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Marriage
Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a culturally and often legally recognised union between people called spouses.
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Mbalax
Mbalax (or mbalakh) is the urban dance music of Senegal and the Gambia.
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Mbira
Mbira are a family of musical instruments, traditional to the Shona people of Zimbabwe.
Mbube (genre)
Mbube is a form of South African vocal music, made famous by the South African group Ladysmith Black Mambazo.
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Melisma
Melisma (μέλισμα,,; from μέλος|melos|song, melody|label.
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Mick Jagger
Sir Michael Philip Jagger (born 26 July 1943) is an English singer.
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Middle Eastern music
The various nations of the region include the Arabic-speaking countries of the Middle East, the Iranian traditions of Persia, the Jewish music of Israel and the diaspora, Armenian music.
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Mine bengidzakiwe
"Mine Bengidzakiwe" is a traditional song sung in native ceremonies in Swaziland, which became a local hit in 2007.
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Miriam Makeba
Zenzile Miriam Makeba (4 March 1932 – 9 November 2008), nicknamed Mama Africa, was a South African singer, songwriter, actress, and civil rights activist.
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Mode (music)
In music theory, the term mode or modus is used in a number of distinct senses, depending on context.
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Music
Music is the arrangement of sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or otherwise expressive content.
Music download
A music download (commonly referred to as a digital download) is the digital transfer of music via the Internet into a device capable of decoding and playing it, such as a personal computer, portable media player, MP3 player or smartphone.
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Music of Algeria
Algerian music is virtually synonymous with Raï among foreigners; the musical genre has achieved great popularity in France, Spain and other parts of Europe.
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Music of Angola
The music of Angola has been shaped both by wider musical trends and by the political history of the country.
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Music of Benin
Benin has played an important role in the African music scene, producing one of the biggest stars to come out of the continent in Angélique Kidjo.
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Music of Botswana
Botswana is an African country made up of different ethnic groups, although Batswana are the majority of the population.
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Music of Burkina Faso
The music of Burkina Faso includes the folk music of 60 different ethnic groups.
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Music of Burundi
Burundi is a Central African nation that is closely linked with Rwanda, geographically, historically and culturally.
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Music of Cameroon
The music of the Cameroon includes diverse traditional and modern musical genres.
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Music of Chad
Chad is an ethnically diverse Central African country.
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Music of Djibouti
The Djiboutian Music (Gabuutih Gadda) refers to the musical styles, techniques and sounds of Djibouti.
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Music of Egypt
Music has been an integral part of Egyptian culture since antiquity in Egypt.
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Music of Eritrea
The music of Eritrea, is a diverse mix of traditional and popular styles originating from ancient to modern times.
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Music of Eswatini
The music of Eswatini is composed of both ethnic Swazi music and varieties of folk music as well as modern genres such as rock, pop and hip hop, which has been popular in Eswatini since headed by bands such as Vamoose.
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Music of Ethiopia
Ethiopian music is a term that can mean any music of Ethiopian origin, however, often it is applied to a genre, a distinct modal system that is pentatonic, with characteristically long intervals between some notes.
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Music of Gabon
Gabon's music includes several folk styles and pop.
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Music of Ghana
There are many styles of traditional and modern music of Ghana, due to Ghana's worldwide geographic position on the African continent.
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Music of Guinea
Guinea is a West African nation, composed of several ethnic groups.
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Music of Guinea-Bissau
The music of Guinea-Bissau is most widely associated with the polyrhythmic genre of gumbe, the country's primary musical export.
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Music of India
Owing to India's vastness and diversity, Indian music encompasses numerous genres in multiple varieties and forms which include classical music, folk, rock, and pop.
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Music of Indonesia
Indonesia is a country with many different tribes and ethnic groups, and its music is also very diverse, coming in hundreds of different forms and styles.
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Music of Ivory Coast
The music of Ivory Coast includes music genres of many ethnic communities, often characterised by vocal polyphony especially among the Baoulé, talking drums especially among the Nzema people and by the characteristic polyrhythms found in rhythm in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Music of Kenya
The music of Kenya is very diverse, with multiple types of folk music based on the variety over 50 regional languages.
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Music of Latin America
The music of Latin America refers to music originating from Latin America, namely the Romance-speaking regions of the Americas south of the United States.
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Music of Lesotho
Lesotho is a Southern African nation surrounded entirely by South Africa.
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Music of Liberia
The music of Liberia uses many tribal beats and often one of the native dialects, or vernacular.
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Music of Madagascar
The highly diverse and distinctive music of Madagascar has been shaped by the musical traditions of Southeast Asia, Africa, Oceania, Arabia, England, France and the United States over time as indigenous people, immigrants, and colonists have made the island their home.
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Music of Malawi
The music of Malawi has historically been influenced by its triple cultural heritage of British, African, and American music.
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Music of Mali
The music of Mali is, like that of most African nations, ethnically diverse, but one influence predominates: that of the ancient Mali Empire of the Mandinka (from c. 1230 to c. 1600).
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Music of Mauritius
Mauritius has 2 genres of music that originate from the Island.
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Music of Mozambique
The native folk music of Mozambique has been highly influenced by Portuguese colonisation and local language forms.
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Music of Namibia
The music of Namibia includes a number of folk styles, as well as pop, rock, reggae, jazz, house and hip hop.
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Music of Niger
The music of Niger has developed from the musical traditions of a mix of ethnic groups; Hausa, the Zarma-Songhai, Tuareg, Fula, Kanuri, Toubou, Diffa Arabs and Gurma and the Boudouma from Lac Chad.
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Music of Nigeria
The music of Nigeria includes many kinds of folk and popular music.
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Music of Polynesia
The music of Polynesia is a diverse set of musical traditions from islands within a large area of the central and southern Pacific Ocean, approximately a triangle with New Zealand, Hawaii and Easter Island forming its corners.
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Music of Rwanda
The music of Rwanda encompasses Rwandan traditions of folk music as well as contemporary East African Afrobeat and Congolese ndombolo, and performers of a wide variety of Western genres including hip-hop, R&B, gospel music and pop ballads.
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Music of São Tomé and Príncipe
São Tomé and Príncipe is an island country off the coast of Africa.
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Music of Senegal
Senegal's music is best known abroad due to the popularity of mbalax, a development of conservative music from different ethnic groups and sabar drumming popularized internationally by Youssou N'Dour.
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Music of Seychelles
Seychelles, which is an independent island chain in the Indian Ocean, has a distinct kind of music.
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Music of Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone's music is a mixture of native, French, British, West Indian and Creole musical genres.
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Music of Somalia
The Music of the Somali people is music following the musical styles, techniques and sounds of the Somali people.
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Music of South Africa
The music of South Africa exhibits a culturally varied musical heritage in conjunction with the multi-ethnic populace.
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Music of Sudan
The rich and varied music of Sudan has traditional, rural, northeastern African roots and also shows Arabic, Western or other African influences, especially on the popular urban music from the early 20th century onwards.
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Music of Tanzania
As it is in other countries, the music in Tanzania is constantly undergoing changes, and varies by location, people, settings and occasion.
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Music of the African diaspora
Music of the African diaspora is a sound created, produced, or inspired by black people, including African music traditions and African popular music as well as the music genres of the African diaspora, including some Caribbean music, Latin music, Brazilian music and African-American music.
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Music of the Central African Republic
Music of the Central African Republic includes many different forms.
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Music of the Comoros
The Comoros is a group of islands in the Indian Ocean, mostly an independent nation but also including the French territory of Mayotte.
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Music of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Congolese music is one of the most influential music forms of the African continent.
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Music of the Gambia
The music of the Gambia is closely linked musically with that of its neighbor, Senegal, which surrounds its inland frontiers completely.
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Music of the Republic of the Congo
The Republic of the Congo is an African nation with close musical ties to its neighbor, the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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Music of the United States
The United States' multi-ethnic population is reflected through a diverse array of styles of music.
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Music of Togo
The music of Togo has produced a number of internationally known popular entertainers including Bella Bellow, Akofah Akussah, Afia Mala, Itadi Bonney, Wellborn, King Mensah and Jimi Hope.
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Music of Uganda
The music of Uganda is broad and diverse, ranging from traditional indigenous music to Ugandan versions of many contemporary genres.
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Music of West Africa
The music of West Africa has a significant history, and its varied sounds reflect the wide range of influences from the area's regions and historical periods.
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Music of Zambia
The music of Zambia has a rich heritage which falls roughly into categories of traditional, popular and Christian music.
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Music of Zimbabwe
Zimbabwean music is heavily reliant on the use of instruments such as the mbira, Ngoma drums and hosho.
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Music streaming service
A music streaming service is a type of online streaming media service that focuses primarily on music, and sometimes other forms of digital audio content such as podcasts.
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Musical instrument
A musical instrument is a device created or adapted to make musical sounds.
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Muslim world
The terms Muslim world and Islamic world commonly refer to the Islamic community, which is also known as the Ummah.
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Muslims
Muslims (God) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition.
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Ndombolo
Ndombolo, also known as dombolo, is a genre of dance music originating in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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Ngoma drums
Ngoma (also called engoma or ng'oma or ingoma) are musical instruments used by certain Bantu populations of Africa.
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Ngoni (instrument)
The ngoni (also written ngɔni, n'goni, or nkoni) is a traditional West African string instrument.
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Niger
Niger or the Niger, officially the Republic of the Niger, is a country in West Africa.
Niger–Congo languages
Niger–Congo is a hypothetical language family spoken over the majority of sub-Saharan Africa.
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Nigeria
Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa.
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North Africa
North Africa (sometimes Northern Africa) is a region encompassing the northern portion of the African continent. There is no singularly accepted scope for the region, and it is sometimes defined as stretching from the Atlantic shores of the Western Sahara in the west, to Egypt and Sudan's Red Sea coast in the east.
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Octave
In music, an octave (octavus: eighth) or perfect octave (sometimes called the '''diapason''') is a series of eight notes occupying the interval between (and including) two notes, one having twice the frequency of vibration of the other.
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Old-time music
Old-time music is a genre of North American folk music.
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Oral tradition
Oral tradition, or oral lore, is a form of human communication in which knowledge, art, ideas and culture are received, preserved, and transmitted orally from one generation to another.
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Oud
The oud (translit) is a Middle Eastern short-neck lute-type, pear-shaped, fretless stringed instrument (a chordophone in the Hornbostel–Sachs classification of instruments), usually with 11 strings grouped in six courses, but some models have five or seven courses, with 10 or 13 strings respectively.
Paul Berliner (ethnomusicologist)
Paul Franklin Berliner (born 1946) is an American ethnomusicologist, best known for specializing in African music as well as jazz and other improvisational systems.
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Paul McCartney
Sir James Paul McCartney (born 18 June 1942) is an English singer, songwriter and musician who gained worldwide fame with the Beatles, for whom he played bass guitar and shared primary songwriting and lead vocal duties with John Lennon.
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Paul Simon
Paul Frederic Simon (born October 13, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter known both for his solo work and his collaboration with Art Garfunkel.
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Pentatonic scale
A pentatonic scale is a musical scale with five notes per octave, in contrast to heptatonic scales, which have seven notes per octave (such as the major scale and minor scale).
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Percussion instrument
A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument.
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Pitch (music)
Pitch is a perceptual property that allows sounds to be ordered on a frequency-related scale, or more commonly, pitch is the quality that makes it possible to judge sounds as "higher" and "lower" in the sense associated with musical melodies.
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Polyphony
Polyphony is a type of musical texture consisting of two or more simultaneous lines of independent melody, as opposed to a musical texture with just one voice (monophony) or a texture with one dominant melodic voice accompanied by chords (homophony).
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Polyrhythm
Polyrhythm is the simultaneous use of two or more rhythms that are not readily perceived as deriving from one another, or as simple manifestations of the same meter.
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Ptolemaic Kingdom
The Ptolemaic Kingdom (Ptolemaïkḕ basileía) or Ptolemaic Empire was an Ancient Greek polity based in Egypt during the Hellenistic period.
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Pygmy music
Pygmy music refers to the sub-Saharan African music traditions of the Central African foragers (or "Pygmies"), predominantly in the Congo, the Central African Republic and Cameroon.
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Qenet
Qañat or Qeñet (ቅኝት, alternatively spelled Kignit, Keniet, Gegnet, Gignit) are secular musical scales developed by the Amhara ethnic group of Ethiopia.
Raï
Raï (راي), sometimes written rai, is a form of Algerian folk music that dates back to the 1920s.
Ragtime
Ragtime, also spelled rag-time or rag time, is a musical style that had its peak from the 1890s to 1910s.
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Rainstick
A cactus rainstick is a long, hollow tube partially filled with small pebbles, rice, dried beans, or other hard granular matter that has small pins or thorns arranged helically on its inside surface.
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Rattle (percussion instrument)
A rattle is a type of percussion instrument which produces a sound when shaken.
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Ray Phiri
Raymond Chikapa Enock Phiri (23 March 1947 – 12 July 2017) was a South African jazz, fusion and mbaqanga musician born in Mpumalanga to Thabethe Phiri, a Malawian immigrant worker, and South African guitarist nicknamed "Just Now" Phiri.
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Recording studio
A recording studio is a specialized facility for recording and mixing of instrumental or vocal musical performances, spoken words, and other sounds.
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Religious music
Religious music (also sacred music) is a type of music that is performed or composed for religious use or through religious influence.
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Remi Kabaka
Remi Kabaka (born 27 March 1945) is a Nigerian Afro-rock avant-garde drummer.
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Rhodes University
Rhodes University (Rhodes Universiteit) is a public research university located in Makhanda (Grahamstown) in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa.
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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.
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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.
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Roman Egypt
Roman Egypt; was an imperial province of the Roman Empire from 30 BC to AD 641.
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Salsa music
Salsa music is a style of Caribbean music, combining elements of Cuban, Puerto Rican, and American influences.
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Samba
Samba is a name or prefix used for several rhythmic variants, such as samba urbano carioca (urban Carioca samba), samba de roda (sometimes also called rural samba), recognized as part of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO, amongst many other forms of samba, mostly originated in the Rio de Janeiro and Bahia states.
Sampling (music)
In sound and music, sampling is the reuse of a portion (or sample) of a sound recording in another recording.
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San Francisco Chronicle
The San Francisco Chronicle is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California.
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Saxophone
The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass.
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Scale (music)
In music theory, a scale is "any consecutive series of notes that form a progression between one note and its octave", typically by order of pitch or fundamental frequency.
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Seun Kuti
Oluseun Anikulapo Kuti (born 11 January 1983), popularly known Seun Kuti, is a Nigerian musician, singer and the youngest son of Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti.
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SFGate
SFGate is a news website based out of San Francisco, California, covering news, culture, travel, food, politics and sports in the San Francisco Bay Area, Hawaii and California.
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Shaker (musical instrument)
The word shaker describes various percussive musical instruments used for creating rhythm in music.
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Shakira
Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll (born 2 February 1977), known mononymously as Shakira, is a Colombian singer and songwriter.
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Simba
Simba is a fictional character in Disney's ''The Lion King '' franchise.
Slit drum
A slit drum or slit gong is a hollow percussion instrument.
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Soca music
Soca music is a genre of music defined by Lord Shorty, its inventor, as the "Soul of Calypso", which has influences of African and East Indian rhythms.
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Solomon Linda
Solomon Popoli Linda OIG (19098 September 1962), also known as Solomon Ntsele ("Linda" was his clan name),Gilmore, Inigo,, The Telegraph (UK), 11 June 2000.
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Solomon Linda's Original Evening Birds
Solomon Linda's Original Evening Birds was a South African vocal group formed by Solomon Linda in 1933.
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Son cubano
Son cubano is a genre of music and dance that originated in the highlands of eastern Cuba during the late 19th century.
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Soukous
Soukous (from French secousse, "shock, jolt, jerk") is a genre of dance music originating from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire) and the Republic of the Congo (formerly French Congo).
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Soul Makossa
"Soul Makossa" is a song by Cameroonian saxophonist and songwriter Manu Dibango, released as a single in 1972.
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Southern Africa
Southern Africa is the southernmost region of Africa.
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Steve Winwood
Stephen Lawrence Winwood (born 12 May 1948) is an English musician and songwriter whose genres include blue-eyed soul, rhythm and blues, blues rock and pop rock.
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String instrument
In musical instrument classification, string instruments or chordophones, are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when a performer plays or sounds the strings in some manner.
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Sub-Saharan Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa, Subsahara, or Non-Mediterranean Africa is the area and regions of the continent of Africa that lie south of the Sahara.
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Sub-Saharan African music traditions
In many parts of sub-Saharan Africa, the use of music is not limited to entertainment: it serves a purpose to the local community and helps in the conduct of daily routines.
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Swahili language
Swahili, also known by its local name Kiswahili, is a Bantu language originally spoken by the Swahili people, who are found primarily in Tanzania, Kenya and Mozambique (along the East African coast and adjacent littoral islands).
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Sylviane Diouf
Sylviane Anna Diouf is a historian and curator of the African diaspora.
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Taarab
Taarab is a music genre popular in Tanzania and Kenya.
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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.
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Tetratonic scale
A tetratonic scale is a musical scale or mode with four notes per octave.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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The Lion King
The Lion King is a 1994 American animated musical coming-of-age drama film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Buena Vista Pictures Distribution under the Walt Disney Pictures banner.
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The Lion King II: Simba's Pride
The Lion King II: Simba's Pride (also titled as The Lion King 2: Simba's Pride) is a 1998 American animated direct-to-video musical drama film produced by Walt Disney Video Premiere.
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The Lion Sleeps Tonight
"The Lion Sleeps Tonight" is a song originally written and first recorded in 1939 by Solomon Linda under the title "Mbube", through South African Gallo Record Company.
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The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London in 1962.
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Tizita
Tizita (var. Tezeta; ትዝታ; memory, "nostalgia" or "longing") is one of the Pentatonic scales or Qañat of the Amhara ethnic group.
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Tone (linguistics)
Tone is the use of pitch in language to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning—that is, to distinguish or to inflect words.
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Township music
Township music (also township jazz) is any of various music genres created by black people living in poor, racially segregated urban areas of South Africa ("townships") during the 20th century.
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Traditional sub-Saharan African harmony
Traditional sub-Saharan African harmony is a music theory of harmony in sub-Saharan African music based on the principles of homophonic parallelism (chords based around a leading melody that follow its rhythm and contour), homophonic polyphony (independent parts moving together), counter-melody (secondary melody) and ostinato-variation (variations based on a repeated theme).
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Traffic (band)
Traffic were an English rock band formed in Birmingham in April 1967 by Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi, Chris Wood and Dave Mason.
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Trumpet
The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles.
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Umm Kulthum
Umm Kulthum (4 May 1904 – 3 February 1975) was an Egyptian singer, songwriter, and film actress active from the 1920s to the 1970s. She was given the honorific title ("Star of the Orient"). Immensely popular throughout the Arab World, Kulthum is a national icon in her native Egypt; she has been dubbed "The Voice of Egypt" and "Egypt's Fourth Pyramid".
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V. Kofi Agawu
Victor Kofi Agawu (born 28 September 1956) is a Ghanaian musicologist and music theorist.
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Vandal Kingdom
The Vandal Kingdom (Regnum Vandalum) or Kingdom of the Vandals and Alans (Regnum Vandalorum et Alanorum) was a confederation of Vandals and Alans, which is one of the barbarian kingdoms established under Gaiseric, a Vandal warrior.
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Visa for Music
Visa for Music is a performing arts festival and professional marketplace for contemporary music from Africa and the Middle East.
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Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)
"Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)" is a song by Colombian singer Shakira, featuring the South African band Freshlyground.
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Water drum
Water drums are a category of membranophone characterized by the filling of the drum chamber with some amount of water to create a unique resonant sound.
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West Africa
West Africa, or Western Africa, is the westernmost region of Africa. The United Nations defines Western Africa as the 16 countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo, as well as Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom Overseas Territory).Paul R.
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Western Europe
Western Europe is the western region of Europe.
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Wind instrument
A wind instrument is a musical instrument that contains some type of resonator (usually a tube) in which a column of air is set into vibration by the player blowing into (or over) a mouthpiece set at or near the end of the resonator.
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Work song
A work song is a piece of music closely connected to a form of work, either one sung while conducting a task (usually to coordinate timing) or one linked to a task that may be a connected narrative, description, or protest song.
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World music
"World music" is an English phrase for styles of music from non-Western countries, including quasi-traditional, intercultural, and traditional music.
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Xylophone
The xylophone is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars struck by mallets.
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Yodeling
Yodeling (also jodeling) is a form of singing which involves repeated and rapid changes of pitch between the low-pitch chest register (or "chest voice") and the high-pitch head register or falsetto.
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Zangalewa
"Zangaléwa" is a 1986 song by Cameroonian makossa group Golden Sounds, later known as "Zangalewa" after the success of the song.
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Zouk
Zouk is a musical movement pioneered by the French Antillean band Kassav' in the early 1980s.
Zulu language
Zulu, or IsiZulu as an endonym, is a Southern Bantu language of the Nguni branch spoken and indigenous to Southern Africa.
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2010 FIFA World Cup
The 2010 FIFA World Cup was the 19th FIFA World Cup, the world championship for men's national football teams.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Africa
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