Rhythm in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Rhythm in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Sub-Saharan African music is characterised by a "strong rhythmic interest" that exhibits common characteristics in all regions of this vast territory, so that Arthur Morris Jones (1889–1980) has described the many local approaches as constituting one main system. C. K. Ladzekpo also affirms the profound homogeneity of approach. West African rhythmic techniques carried over the Atlantic were fundamental ingredients in various musical styles of the Americas: samba, forró, maracatu and coco in Braz
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Periodicity in music developed by sub-Saharan African peoples
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2024-04-06T22:04:45Z
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