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Palm-wine music [1] [2] (known as maringa in Sierra Leone) is a West African musical genre. It evolved among the Kru people of Liberia and Sierra Leone, who used Portuguese guitars brought by sailors, combining local melodies and rhythms with Trinidadian calypso to create a "light, easy, lilting style". [3] [4] It would initially work its way ...
Mali, [c] officially the Republic of Mali, [d] is a landlocked country in West Africa. Mali is the eighth-largest country in Africa, with an area of over 1,241,238 square kilometres (479,245 sq mi). [14] The country is bordered to the north by Algeria, to the east by Niger, to the northwest by Mauritania, to the south by Burkina Faso and Ivory ...
Chuck Philips, Los Angeles Times, 1992 Gangsta rap is a subgenre of hip hop that reflects the violent lifestyles of inner-city American black youths. Gangsta is a non-rhotic pronunciation of the word gangster. The genre was pioneered in the mid-1980s by rappers such as Schoolly D and Ice-T, and was popularized in the later part of the 1980s by groups like N.W.A. In 1985 Schoolly D released "P ...
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African blues is a genre of popular music, primarily from West Africa. The term may also reference a putative journey undertaken by traditional African music from its homeland to the United States and back. [1] Some [which?] scholars and ethnomusicologists have speculated that the origins of the blues can be traced to the musical traditions of ...
Tresillo (shown below) is the most basic and most prevalent duple-pulse rhythmic cell in sub-Saharan African music traditions and the music of the African Diaspora. [58] [59] Tresillo is heard prominently in New Orleans second line music and in other forms of popular music from that city from the turn of the 20th century to present. [60] "
Claudette Peters is a soca music singer and songwriter. Soca began its development in the early 1970s [2] and grew in popularity throughout that decade. Soca's development as a musical genre included its fusion with calypso, chutney, reggae, zouk, Latin, cadence and traditional West African rhythms. A sound project started in 1970 at KH Studios ...
