African popular music (also styled Afropop, Afro-pop, Afro pop or African pop), can be defined as any African music, regardless of genre, that uses Western...

births, or funerals. African popular music as a whole has been influenced by European countries, African-American and Afro-Latin music, and region-specific...

continent. The music and dance of the African diaspora, formed to varying degrees on African musical traditions, include American music like Dixieland...

West African music varies due to the regional separation of West Africa, yet it can be distinguished by two distinct categories: Islamic music and indigenous...

African-American music is a broad term covering a diverse range of musical genres largely developed by African Americans and their culture. Its origins...

African continent, highlighting regional melodic, harmonic and rhythmic musical traditions." The award honors, but is not limited to African popular music...

Music of the African diaspora is a sound created, produced, or inspired by Black people, including African music traditions and African popular music...

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The rich and varied music of Sudan has traditional, rural, northeastern African roots and also shows Arabic, Western or other African influences, especially...

The music of Nigeria includes many kinds of folk and popular music. Little of the country's music history prior to European contact has been preserved...

spread across South Africa. They incorporated African musical elements into their gospel songs. South African gospel started to be popular in the 1990s with...

American popular music (also referred to as "American Pop") is popular music produced in the United States and is a part of American pop culture. Distinctive...

predominantly made in South Africa. African popular music – an umbrella term, "afro pop", for all the various, African genres of African Music. Aguinaldo – traditional...

Hip hop music has been popular in Africa since the early 1980s due to widespread African American influence. In 1985, hip hop reached Senegal, a French-speaking...

Jùjú is a style of Yoruba popular music, derived from traditional Yoruba percussion. The name juju from the Yoruba word "juju" or "jiju" meaning "throwing"...

influenced African popular music. African dance (also Afro dance, Afrodance and Afro-dance) refers to the various dance styles of sub-Saharan Africa. These...

Fújì is a genre of Yoruba popular music that emerged in Nigeria in the 1960s. It evolved from the improvisational wéré music also known as ajísari (meaning...

attempts at European-style music, and began forging new forms based out of local folk styles and the new African popular music coming from Zaire, Zimbabwe...

North Africa has contributed considerably to popular music, especially Egyptian classical music alongside el Gil, Algerian raï and Chaabi (internationally-known...

the conventions of Western music theory. However, performers of African popular music do not perceive these progressions in the same way. Harmonic progressions...

American music through spirituals, minstrel shows, and slave songs. African American musical styles became an integral part of American popular music through...

Swedish popular music, or shortly Swedish pop music, refers to music that has swept the Swedish mainstream at any given point in recent times. After World...

British popular music and popular music in general, can be defined in a number of ways, but is used here to describe music which is not part of the art/classical...

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by the characteristic polyrhythms found in rhythm in Sub-Saharan Africa. Popular music genres from Ivory Coast include zouglou and Coupé-Décalé. A few...

are a South African ethnic group. Many Zulu musicians have become a major part of South African music, creating a huge influence in the music industry....

São Tomé and Príncipe. Central African Music (dark blue on the map) includes the music of Chad, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic...

Soul music is a popular music genre that originated in African-American communities throughout the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s. It...

a mixture of African and British musics, with certain unique elements that may derive from indigenous sources. Tension between African and British culture...