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Music Genres

This is a list of some of the world music genre and their definitions

• Africa People – Music found to be typical of a nation or ethnic group, known to all segments of society, and preserved usually by oral tradition.
• Afro Jazz – Refers to jazz music which has been heavily influenced by African music. The music took elements of marabi, swing and American jazz, and summarized this in a unique fusion. The first band to really achieve this synthesis was the South African band Jazz Maniacs.
• Afro-beat – is a combination of Yoruba music, jazz, highlife and funk rhythms, fused with African percussion and vocal styles, widespread in Africa in the 1970s.
• Afro-Pop – Afropop or Afro Pop is a term sometimes used to refer to contemporary African pop music. The term refers not to a particular style or sound but is used as a general term for African popular music.
• Apala – Originally derived from the Yoruba people of Nigeria. It is a percussion-based style that developed in the late 1930s, when it was used to waking worshipers after fasting during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
• Assiko – is a popular dance from the South Cameroon. The band is usually based on a singer accompanied by a guitar and a percussionnist player pulsating rhythm Assiko with metal knives and forks on an empty bottle.
• Batuque – is a music and dance genre from Cape Verde.
• Bend Skin – is a kind of urban Cameroonian popular music. Kouchoum Mbada is the most well known group associated with the genre.
• Benga – Is a musical genre of Kenyan popular music. It evolved between the late 1940s and late 1960s, in Kenya's capital Nairobi.
• Biguine – is a music style that originated in Martinique in the 19th century. By combining traditional music with polka Bele, created the black musicians in Martinique on biguine, which includes three different styles, they biguine the salon, it biguine the ball and biguines they rue.
• Bikutsi – is a musical genre from Cameroon. It evolved from the traditional styles of Beti or Ewondo, people living around Around the town of Yaounde.
• Bongo Flava – it has a mix of rap, hip hop and R & B for starters but these labels do not do it justice. It is rap, hip hop and R & B Tanzanian style: a big melting pot of tastes, history, culture and identity.
• Cadence – Is a special series of intervals or chords that ends a sentence, paragraph, or a piece of music.
• Calypso – is a style of Afro-Caribbean music which originated in Trinidad around the early 20th century. The roots of the genre lay in the arrival of African slaves, are not allowed to talk to each other communicated through song.
• Chaabi – is a popular music of Morocco, very similar to the Algerian Rai.
• Chimurenga – Is a Zimbabwean popular music genre invented and popularized by Thomas Mapfumo. Chimurenga is a Shona language word for struggle.
• Chouval BWA – features percussion, bamboo flute, harmonica and kazoo wax-paper/comb-type. The music originates among rural Martinicans.
• Christian Rap – is a kind of rap that uses Christian themes to express the songwriter faith.
• Coladeira – is a form of music in Cape Verde. Its element scaling funacola which is a mixture of funanáa and coladera. Famous musicians include coladera Antoninho Travadinha.
• Contemporary Christian – is a genre of popular music which is lyrically focused on issues concerned with the Christian faith.
• Country – is a blend of popular musical forms originally found in southern U.S. and Appalachian Mountains. It has roots in traditional folk music, Celtic music, blues, gospel music, hokum and old-fashioned music and evolved rapidly in the 1920s.
• Dance Hall – is a type of Jamaican popular music which developed in the late 1970s, with exponents as Yellowman and Shabba Ranks. It is also known as bashment. The style is characterized by a deejay singing and gratings (or rapping) over raw and danceable music Riddim.
• Disco – is a genre of dance-oriented pop music that was popularized in dance clubs in the mid-1970s.
• People – in the most basic sense, is music by and for the ordinary people.
• Freestyle – is a form of electronic music that is heavily influenced by Latin American culture.
• Fuji – is a popular Nigerian musical genre. It arose from the improvisation Ajisari / were music tradition, which is a kind of Muslim music performed to wake believers before dawn in Ramadan fasting season.
• Funana – is a mixed Portuguese and African music and dance from Santiago, Cape Verde. It is said that the lower part of body movement in Africa, and the upper part Portuguese.
• Funk – is an American music style that arose in middle and late 1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, soul jazz and R & B in a rhythmic, danceable new form of music.
• Gangsta rap – is a subgenre of hip-hop music that evolved in the late 1980s. 'Gangsta' is a variation on the spelling of 'gangster'. Following the popularity of Dr. Dre's The Chronic in 1992, gangsta rap the most commercially lucrative subgenre of hip-hop.
• Geng – is a genre of hip hop music that had its beginnings in Nairobi, Kenya. The name was invented and popularized by Kenyan rapper Nonini started at Calif Records. It is a style of hip hop, dancehall and traditional African music styles. It is widely sung in Sheng (slung), Swahili or local dialects.
• Gnawa – Is a mixture of African, Berber and Arabic religious songs and rhythms. It combines music and acrobatic dancing. The music is both a prayer and a celebration of life.
• Gospel – Is a musical genre characterized by dominant vocals (often with strong use of harmony) references lyrics of a religious nature, particularly Christian.
• High Life – Is a musical genre that originated in Ghana and spread to Sierra Leone and Nigeria in the 1920s and other West African countries.
• Hip-Hop – are a style of popular music, typically consisting of a rhythmic, rhymed vowel called rapping (also known as emceeing) over backing beats and scratching performed on a turntable with a DJ.
• House – is a style of electronic dance music that was developed by dance club DJs in Chicago in the early to mid 1980s. House music is strongly influenced by elements in the late 1970s soul-and funk-infused dance music style of disco.
• Indie – a concept used to describe genres, scenes, subcultures, styles and other cultural attributes in music, characterized by their independence from major commercial record labels and their autonomous, do-it-yourself approach to recording and publishing.
• Instrumental – An instrumental is, in contrast to a song, a musical composition or recording without lyrics or any other form of vocal music, all of the music produced by musical instruments.
• Isicathamiya – Is an a cappella singing style that comes from the South African Zulus.
• Jazz – is an original American musical art form which originated around the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States out of a collection of African and European music traditions.
• JIT – is a form the popular Zimbabwean dance music. It has a fast rhythm played on drums and accompanied by a guitar.
• JuJu – is a style of Nigerian popular music derived from traditional Yoruba percussion. It evolved in the 1920s in urban clubs across the country. The first JuJu recordings were of Tunde King Ojoge Daniel 1920s.
• Kizomba – is one of the most popular genres of dance and music from Angola. Sung generally in Portuguese, is it is a genre of music with a romantic flow mixed with African rhythms.
• Kwaito – is a music genre that emerged in Johannesburg, South Africa in early 1990s. It is based on house music beats, but typically at a slower pace, and containing melodic and percussive African samples are looped, deep basslines and often vocals, generally male, shouted or sang rather than sung or rapped.
• Kwela – is a happy, often pennywhistle based, street music from southern Africa with jazzy underpinnings. It evolved from marabi sound and brought South African music to international prominence in the 1950s.
• Lingala – Soukous (also known as Soukous, or Congo, and previously as African rumba) is a musical genre that emerged in the two neighboring Belgian Congo and French Congo during the 1930s and early 1940s
• Makossa – is a kind of music is most popular in urban areas in Cameroon. This corresponds to soukous, except it includes strong bass rhythm and a prominent horn section. It comes from a type of Duala dance called kossa, with significant influence from jazz, Bey ambasse, Latin music, high life and space.
• Malouf – a kind of music is imported into Tunisia from Andalusia after the Spanish conquest in the 15th century.
• Mapouka – Also known as Macouka is a traditional dance from south-east of Côte d 'Ivoire in the area Dabou, sometimes carried out during religious ceremonies.
• Maringa – is a West African musical genre. It evolved among the Kru people of Sierra Leone and Liberia, who used the guitars brought by Portuguese sailors who combines Local melodies and rhythms of Trinidad calypso.
• Marrabenta – is a form of Mozambican dance music. It was developed in Maputo, the capital of Mozambique, former Laurenco Marques.
• Mazurka – a Polish folk dance in triple meter with a lively tempo, containing a heavy accent on the third day or second beat. It is always considered to have either a triplet, trill, dotted eighth note pairs, or regular eighth note pairs before two quarter notes.
• Mbalax – Is the national popular dance music of Senegal. It is a fusion of popular dance music from the West such as jazz, soul latin and rock blended with sabar, the traditional drumming and dance music of Senegal.
• Mbaqanga – is a style of South African music with rural Zulu roots that continues to influence musicians around the world today. The style was invented in the early 1960s.
• Mbube – is a kind of South African vocal music, made famous by the South African group Ladysmith Black Mambazo. Mbube word means "lion" in Zulu
• Merengue – is a type of lively, happy music and dance coming from the Dominican Republic
• Morna – is a genre of Cape Verde music, in connection with the Portuguese fado, Brazilian modinha, Argentine tango, and Angolan lament.
• Museve – is a popular Zimbabwean music style. Artists include Simon Chimbetu and Alick Macheso
• Oldies – Term commonly used to describe a radio format that usually concentrates on the Top 40 music from the 50s, 60s and 70s. Oldies are typically from R & B, pop and rock music genres.
• Pop – is an ample and imprecise category of modern music is not defined by artistic considerations but of its potential audience or prospective market.
• Quadrille – is a historic dance performed by four couples in a square formation, a precursor to the traditional square dance. It is also a form of music.
• R & B – is a popular music genre combining jazz, gospel and blues influences, first performed by African American artists.
• Rai – is a form of folk music, originated in Oran, Algeria from Bedouin shepherds, mixed with Spanish, French, African and Arabic musical forms, dating back to 1930 and has been primarily evolved by women in the culture.
• Ragga – Is a sub-genre of dancehall reggae music or, in the instrumentation primarily consists of electronic music, sampling often serves a prominent role in raggamuffin music also.
• Rap – singing is rhythmic delivery of rhymes and wordplay, one element of hip hop music and culture.
• Rara – Is a kind of festival music used in street processions, typically during Easter Week.
• Reggae – is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in late 1960s. One particular music style that emerged after the development of ska and rock steady. Reggae is based on a rhythm style characterized by regular chops on the off-beat, known as Skank.
• Reggaeton – Is a form of urban music which became popular with Latin American youth in the early 1990s. Origin in Panama, Reggaeton blends Jamaican music influences of reggae and dancehall with those of Latin America, such as bomba, Plena, merengue, and bachata as well as that of hip hop and electronica.
• Rock – is a form of popular music with a prominent vocal melody accompanied by guitar, drums and bass. Many styles of rock music also use keyboard instruments such as organ, piano, synthesizers.
• Rumba – Is a family of music rhythms and dance styles that originated in Africa and was introduced to Cuba and the New World by African slaves.
• Salegy – is a popular type of Afropop styles exported from Madagascar. This Sub-Sahara African folk dance originates with the Malagasy language of Madagascar, South Africa.
• Salsa – Is a diverse and predominantly Spanish Caribbean genre that is popular in Latin America and among Latinos abroad.
• Samba – is one of the most popular forms of music in Brazil. It is widely regarded as Brazil's national musical style.
• Sega – is an evolved combination of traditional music, Seychelles, Mauritius and Réunionnais music with European dance music like polka and quadrilles.
• Seggae – is a musical genre invented in the mid-1980s by the Mauritian Rasta singer, Joseph Reginald Topize who was also known as Kaya, after a song title of Bob Marley. Seggae is an amalgamation of Sega from the island country of Mauritius, and reggae.
• Semba – Is a traditional form of music from the southern African country of Angola. Semba is the forerunner of a wide range of styles came from Africa, three of the best known is Samba (From Brazil) Kizomba (Angolan style of music derived directly from Zouk music) and Kuduro (or Kuduru, energetic, fast-paced Angolan Techno music, so to speak).
• Shona Music – is music of the Shona in Zimbabwe. There are several different types of traditional Shona music including mbira, singing, hosho and drumming. Very often, this music will be accompanied by dancing, and participation of the audience.
• Ska – is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and was a precursor to rock steady and reggae. Ska combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues.
• Slow Jam – typically a song with an R & B-inspired melody. Slow jams are commonly R & B ballads or just down tempo songs. The term is usually reserved for soft-sounding songs with strong emotional or romantic lyrical content.
• Soca – is a form of dance music that originated in Trinidad from calypso. It combines the melodic lilting sound of calypso with insistent (usually electronic in recent music) percussion.
• Soukous – is a musical genre that emerged in the two neighboring Belgian Congo and French Congo during the 1930s and early 1940s and has gained popularity throughout Africa.
• Soul – is a music genre that combines rhythm and blues and gospel music, originating in the U.S..
• Taarab – is a music genre popular in Tanzania. It is influenced by music from cultures with a historical presence in eastern Africa, including music from East Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa, Middle East and Europe. Taarab rose to prominence in 1928 with the rise of the genre's first star, Siti binti Saad.
• Tango – is a music style that arose among European immigrants in Argentina and Uruguay. It is traditionally played of a sextet, known as the orquesta tipica, which includes two violins, piano, bass, and two bandoneon.
• Waka – is a popular Islamic-oriented Yoruba musical genre. It was pioneered and made popular by Alhaja Batile Alake from Ijebu, who took the genre into mainstream Nigerian music by playing it at concerts and festivals; also, she was the first waka singer to record an album.
• Wassoulou – is a genre of West African popular music, named after the region Wassoulou. This is done mostly by women, using texts related to women's issues of childbearing, fertility and polygamy.
• Ziglibithy – is a style of Ivorian popular music developed in the 1970s. It was the first great genre of music from Ivory Coast. The first major pioneer in the style was Ernesto Djedje.
• Zouglou – Is a dance-oriented style of music from Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) which first developed in the 1990s. It started with students (les parents you Campus) from the University of Abidjan.
• Zouk – is a form to rhythmic music from the French islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique. It has its roots in compat music from Haiti, cadence music from Dominica, as popularized by Grammacks and Exile One.

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