African Culture

In Africa, many types of cultural Differances in each of the 54 countries on the land. African culture in this book is art and music from all around Africa.

Sub-Saharan Africa Music

Africa has a variety of different types of music. For example Reaggea and Hip-Hop. Many of the ones you know today might be existent in Africa right now, you never know.

Reggae

 In the late 1960’s  reggae from black ghettos of Jamaica.It quickly became the most popular music in the country, and in the 1970s it spread to the United Kingdom, the United States, and the whole of Africa.

Mambo and Cuban Son

 Mambo among dancers of the 1950s, colorful Afro-Cuban big bands began many years of enduring popularity among Latin American listener.

Cuban son is a genre of music and dance that originated in the highlands of eastern Cuba during the late 19th century. It is a  genre that blends elements of Spanish and African origin.

Sasa and Afrocubism

Sasa is a hispanic dance music that combines Afro-Cuban music with Caribbean styles.It was popular in  ballrooms and nightclubs of Havana by the end of the 1950s.

AfroCubism is an award-winning, Grammy-nominated album featuring musical collaborations between musicians from Mali and Cuba. It was released in 2010.The musicians involved in AfroCubism already had successful careers .

Rapping

Rapping can be traced back to its African. Centuries before hip-hop music existed, the griots of West africa  were delivering stories rhythmically, over drums and sparse instrumentation. During the late 1980s to early 1990s, rap started to escalate all over Africa. Each region had a new type of style of hip hop.