African Music-ancient And Modern At The Same Time

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...in that no single description can describe it all. The indigenous music of certain parts of Senegal can no more be compared to the popular "world beat" music of Johannesburg than Pavarotti can be compared to Led Zepplin. Each African nation has its own unique sound. Devotees of African music in North America are often torn between wanting to have more people hear the genuinely unique sounds, rhythms and instruments of Africa and a fear that its uniqueness could be bastardized by Western and commercial influences. In all of its permutations (except, perhaps, Ghana's "highlife music" that would be at home in any 1940s or 1950s era nightclub in the West), African music is singular in originality. To classify the music of the African continent as simply "African music" borders on the rather racist ideal that all Africans are the same. Of course, little could...

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