African Music Genres

Jamaican music style that strongly influenced by island's traditional mento music

• Marabi

• Kwassa kwassa

• reggae

• Salsa

underlying rhythm that typifies most Brazilian music

• soca

• zouk

• salsa

• samba

popular music style from Nigeria that relies on the traditional Yoruba rhythms

• Juju

• Kwassa kwassa

• jive

• jit

term used to describe the fusion of West African with black American music.

• jive

• afrobeat

• axe

• were

popular music genre of the 1950s and 1960s. It originated in the United States, and combined elements of African-American gospel music, rhythm and blues, and often jazz.

• Soul

• Blues

• Spirituals

• Call And Response