African popular music
Overview of popular music in Africa / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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African popular music (also styled Afropop, Afro-pop, Afro pop or African pop),[1] like African traditional music, is vast and varied.[1] Most contemporary genres of African popular music build on cross-pollination with Western popular music. Many genres of popular music like blues, jazz, salsa, zouk, and rumba derive to varying degrees on musical traditions from Africa, taken to the Americas by enslaved Africans. These rhythms and sounds have subsequently been adapted by newer genres like rock, and rhythm and blues. Likewise, African popular music has adopted elements, particularly the musical instruments and recording studio techniques of the Western music industry. The term does not refer to a specific style or sound but is used as a general term for African popular music.[2][3][4]
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