"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. Many genres of popular music like blues, jazz, salsa and rumba derive to varying degrees on musical traditions from Africa, taken to the Americas by African slaves. These rhythms and sounds have subsequently been adapted by newer genres like rock, rhythm and blues. Likewise, African popular music has adopted elements, particularly the musical instruments and recording studio techniques of western music.^[1]

[edit] Afropop

Afropop or Afro Pop is a term sometimes used to refer to contemporary African pop music. The term does not refer to a specific style or sound^[2], but is used as a general term to describe African popular music.

[edit] Genres

Genres of African popular music include:

Afrobeat Apala Benga Bikutsi Cape Jazz Chimurenga Fuji music Highlife Hiplife Isicathamiya Jit

Jùjú Kizomba Kuduro Kwaito Kwela Makossa Maloya Marrabenta Mbalax Museve aka Sungura Mbaqanga

Mbube Morna Palm-wine Raï Sakara Sega Soukous aka Congo, Lingala or African rumba Taarab

[edit] References

• Afropop! An Illustrated Guide to Contemporary African Music by Sean Barlow & Banning Eyre. (Book Sales August 1995) ISBN 0785804439, ISBN 978-0785804437

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