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Wassoulou ( Bambara: Wasolo) is a genre of West African popular music named for the Wassoulou cultural area. [1] Wassoulou music is performed mostly by women. Some recurring themes in the lyrics are childbearing, fertility, and polygamy. Instrumentation includes soku (a traditional fiddle sometimes replaced with modern imported instruments ...
Spirituals (also known as Negro spirituals, African American spirituals, Black spirituals, or spiritual music) is a genre of Christian music that is associated with African Americans, which merged varied African cultural influences with the experiences of being held in bondage in slavery, at first during the transatlantic slave trade and for centuries afterwards, through the domestic slave trade.
Good examples are Paul Simon's album Graceland, on which South African mbaqanga music is heard; Peter Gabriel's work with Pakistani Sufi singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan; the Deep Forest project, in which vocal loops from West Africa are blended with Western, contemporary rhythmic textures and harmony structure; and the work of Mango, who combined pop and rock music with world elements.
Soul music is a popular music genre that originated in the African-American community throughout the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s. [2] It has its roots in African-American gospel music and rhythm and blues. [3] Soul music became popular for dancing and listening, where U.S. record labels such as Motown, Atlantic and Stax were ...
Calypso. Calypso is a style of Caribbean music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago during the early to mid-19th century and spread to the rest of the Caribbean Antilles by the mid-20th century. Its rhythms can be traced back to West African Kaiso and the arrival of French planters and their slaves from the French Antilles in the 18th century.
Sona Jobarteh (born 1983 [1]) is a Gambian multi-instrumentalist, singer and composer. She is from one of the five principal kora -playing griot families of West Africa, and is the first female professional kora player [1] [2] to come from a griot family. She is the cousin of the celebrated kora player Toumani Diabaté, and is the sister of the ...
The Mali Empire began in the 13th century CE, eventually creating a centralised state including most of West Africa. It originated when a Mandé (Mandingo) leader, Sundiata (Lord Lion) of the Keita clan, defeated Soumaoro Kanté, king of the Sosso or southern Soninke, at the Battle of Kirina in c. 1235.
