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Musical Style/Genre Under African Music

1. SOUKOUS

Soukous is a form of music that stems from rumba. The late Franco Luambo, who died in 1989 (a.k.a. Luambo Makiadi), performed soukous music with his band OK Jazz for 30 years.

2. JUJU

Juju style originally came from Nigeria, a country which has produced many styles that managed to spread all around West African countries, including juju, jaija, fuji, ozzidi, palm-wine, highlife and afrobea

3. MBALAX

A style of popular Senegalese music known in the Serer language as mbalax, it derives from the conservative Serer music tradition of Njuup

Musical Characteristics

While there are many different approaches to describing the building blocks of music, we often break music down into five basic elements:

melody, texture, rhythm, form, and harmony.