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tenets of Western music theory. However, as Gerhard Kubik points out, performers of African popular music do not necessarily perceive these progressions in the same way: "The harmonic cycle of C-F-G-F prominent in Congo/Zaire popular music simply cannot be defined as a progression from tonic to subdominant to dominant and back to subdominant (on which it ends) because in the performer's appreciation they are of equal status, and not in any hierarchical order as in Western music."
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The re-working of the harmonic patterns reveals a striking difference in perception. The I, IV, V, IV, harmonic progression, commonly used in Cuban music, is heard in pop music all across the African continent, thanks to the influence of Cuban music. Those chords move in accordance with the basic
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According to Lise Waxer: "African salsa points not so much to a return of salsa to African soil (Steward 1999: 157) but to a complex process of cultural appropriation between two regions of the so-called Third World." Since the mid-1990s African artists have also been very active through the
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to electric guitars, and gave them their own regional flavor. The guitar-based music gradually spread out from the Congo, increasingly taking on local sensibilities. This process eventually resulted in the establishment of several different distinct regional genres, such as
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bands started doing Cuban covers and singing the lyrics phonetically. Soon, they were creating their own original Cuban-like compositions, with French lyrics. The Congolese called this new music
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Cuban popular music played a major role in the development of many contemporary genres of African popular music. John Storm Roberts states: "It was the Cuban connection, but increasingly also
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derive, of varying degrees, musical traditions from Africa cultured to the Americas, by enslaved Africans. These rhythms and sounds have subsequently been adapted by newer genres like
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since the mid-twentieth century. It was Cuban music, more than any other, that provided the initial template for Afropop. To the Africans,
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plays in a basic salsa style with congas and timbales, but with the addition of Wolof and Mandinka instruments and lyrics.
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techniques. The term does not refer to a specific style or sound but is used as a general term for African popular music.
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Nigerian musician Segun Bucknor: "Latin American music and our music is virtually the same"—quoted by Collins 1992 p. 62
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is one of the African female artists who revolutionized African music with her unique blend of rhythms.
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Conteh, Mankaprr; Makinde, Tami; Miya, Madzadza; Saraki, Seni; Wangeci, Tela (28 December 2022).
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in the UK). The Zairean appearance occurred at a music festival held in conjunction with the
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The largest wave of Cuban-based music to hit Africa was in the form of salsa. In 1974 the
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Situating Salsa: Global Markets and Local Meanings in Latin Popular Music
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African popular music (a historical review of sub-Saharan Africa)
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AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange, ‧Documentary,15 seasons
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Afropop! An Illustrated Guide to Contemporary African Music
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Afro-Cuban Comes Home: The Birth and Growth of Congo Music
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