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The West Africa is vast, stretching from the Sahara Desert to the Atlantic Ocean. The musical heritage of the region includes a wide variety of styles of popular music, especially country Senegal, Ghana, Ivory Coast and Nigeria. Moreover griots, musicians and travelers (praise singers), are found throughout the region, and some musical instruments (such as kora and some types of drums ) are found in many West African countries.

The African popular music and traditional African music is vast and varied. Most contemporary genres of African popular music are constructed and cross pollination with western popular music. Many genres of popular music like blues, jazz, salsa and African rumba, derived from various degrees of musical traditions of the African continent, brought to America by slaves. These rhythms and sounds have been adapted for new genres like rock and rhythm and blues. In addition, African popular music has adopted elements, particularly musical instruments and studio recording techniques of Western music.

Djembe - drum in the form of cup (about 60 cm in height and diameter of the membrane is about 30 cm), carved from a single piece of wood. Djembe pull goat skin. Usually used for this drum tight trees, such as mahogany. Sound recovered the djembe to be very resonant. Skin pull hard enough.

Play the djembe palms. Basic strokes are: Bass, tone and Slap. It sounds like : Bass - Bim Bam Boom. Tone - Tu, Tu. Slap - Ta Pa. In the ensemble use three, four djembe tuned to different keys. On the highly-tuned djembe solo. Dunumba - Bass drum. Sangban is an Average drum. Kenkeni is a snare drum. On these drums tight leather bull. The skin is stretched using special metal rings and ropes. These drums are set by the level of tone respectively. Sound is produced with a stick. While playing in an ensemble - bass drums form the base polyrhythms.

Afropop or Afro Pop is a term sometimes used to refer to the contemporary music of the pop African. Characterized by a mixture of dance and sounds from music pop American and African music, the Afropop does not refer to a style or a specific musical sound, but the word is used as a general term for popular music African.

The popular music of Africa, as the African traditional music, is vast and varied. Most contemporary genres of popular music African -based pollination crossed with Western popular music. Many genres of popular music like blues, jazz, salsa and rumba derive to varying degrees of traditional music from Africa, brought to the Americas by African slaves. These rhythms and sounds have subsequently been adapted by new genres like rock and rhythm and blues. Likewise, African popular music has adopted elements, particularly the musical instruments and techniques of Western music in the recording studio.

Afro Pop is a term used to indicate the pop music of modern Africa. Therefore, does not represent a sound or a particular style. Band of Congo was covered as it is the music of Cubans, including the lyrics, but soon French I began to produce works of their own. The Congolese rumba and incorporating new music genre called, Guaheo to adapt to electric guitar melodies, gave a taste of Africa. Guitar music entity, began to spread gradually from Congo. And was to have a sensitivity of each region more and more. As a result, for example Sukusu went led to the establishment of various genres of various regions.

Similar analysis has been done in African great ethno-linguistic groups as well as the popular music of Africa correlating these with the so-called black music around the world. Africa is a large continent and its regions and nations have distinct musical traditions. Is it relevant to the music of North Africa has a different history of music from Sub-Saharan Africa. The North African music covers a wide range of traditions, from the music of ancient Egypt to the Berber music and the Tuareg music of the desert nomads. The musical art of the region has for centuries followed the rules of Arabic music and Andalusian. Its contemporary popular genres is the Raï Algerian. Then, with this music you can also group the music of Sudan and the Horn of Africa, including the music of Eritrea, Ethiopia, Djibouti and Somalia.

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