African music
Drums from below
African music encompasses the diverse musical traditions of the African continent, characterized by complex rhythms, polyrhythmic patterns, call-and-response structures, and the integration of music with dance and daily life.
The term covers everything from traditional drumming and vocal styles to contemporary genres like Afrobeat, highlife, and Afropop: The festival celebrated African music from across the continent.
- AfrobeatWest African funk-jazz fusion
- griotAfrican oral tradition keeper
- ubuntuShared humanity ethic
- danceRhythmic bodily movement
- bluesMournful American music genre
township · call-and-response · Afro-jazz · drum · Afro-pop · Congo · calabash · tribal · Mali · ceremony · percussion · talking drum · ancestors · Senegal · beat · Lagos · kora · voice
- African studiesAfrican history, African culture, African languages, African literature, African art
- AfricaEgypt, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, Algeria
- world musicreggae, samba, bossa nova, flamenco, fado
- AfrocentrismAfrocentrism, cultural reclamation, ancestral wisdom, ancestral knowledge
- ethnomusicologyethnomusicology, fieldwork, folk revival, field recordings, ethnography
- African artifactsAfrican masks, African art, tribal masks, tribal art, ritual objects
African musicEuropean music
Compositions from that continent
Asian music · Indian classical music · Middle Eastern music · American music · Latin American music
African musicorchestral music
Music for full ensemble
symphonic music · chamber music · opera · electronic music · court music