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There is an African music program on TV here every weekend. I watched it a couple of times, but it seems to me that African pop music is in trouble like pop music in the West, always the same rhythm and everything...
Even the dancing is always the same, in 9 out of 10 videos they show on that show there are those half-naked women basically dancing with their butts
Since it is Portuguese TV station, the music show focuses mainly on the half dozen or so Portuguese-speaking countries such as Angola. Is it like that across the rest of black Africa as well?
I don't really like that either (too slick and melodic for my taste), but at least it is different from the stuff on the TV show. Most African music sounds too boring and happy to me. The only touching African music I have heard so far was by some old men from the desert in Mali, not famous artists, but normal tribal people playing their simple instruments. It was very un-African music so to speak, no drums, no singing, very slow, almost hypnotic.
Many African artists seem to be copying African-Americans to a certain extent. Lots of fat gold chains, expensive cars, certain gestures, etc.
It's called World Beat, and it will be there as long as Sony and EMI are in control of virtually all the music marketed worldwide. Go to YouTube and search for some Soukous music, which follows the form of a kind of rumba-jazz that was developed in the 1970s. It's still very popular in Tanzania and Congo.
Mbilia Bel, who has a beautiful voice, is an excellent practitioner of the modern form of Soukous, which is a pleasant relief from the ubiquitous Afro-Caribbean beat that has become a mainstay of World Beat.: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDYhCqyRDC4
I don't really like that either (too slick and melodic for my taste), but at least it is different from the stuff on the TV show. Most African music sounds too boring and happy to me. The only touching African music I have heard so far was by some old men from the desert in Mali, not famous artists, but normal tribal people playing their simple instruments. It was very un-African music so to speak, no drums, no singing, very slow, almost hypnotic.
Many African artists seem to be copying African-Americans to a certain extent. Lots of fat gold chains, expensive cars, certain gestures, etc.
I love melodic music...can relax to it, dance to it...so kizomba appeals to me. As for African music, there is so much of it, and it is extremely diverse. It's easy to ignore those artists that copy the African-American artists...virtually every culture has a group of people who do. But with African nations, there is just a ton to listen to...
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