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African popular music
African popular music, like African traditional music, is vast and varied.
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Calypso music
Calypso is a style of Afro-Caribbean music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago during the early to mid-19th century and eventually spread to the rest of the Caribbean Antilles and Venezuela by the mid-20th century.
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Caribbean
The Caribbean is a region that consists of the Caribbean Sea, its islands (some surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some bordering both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean) and the surrounding coasts.
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Cornet
The cornet is a brass instrument similar to the trumpet but distinguished from it by its conical bore, more compact shape, and mellower tone quality.
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Dancehall
Dancehall is a genre of Jamaican popular music that originated in the late 1970s.
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Decca Records
Decca Records is a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis.
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Dr. Oloh
Israel Olorunfeh Cole (March 20, 1944 - October 13, 2007) better known by his stage name Dr.
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France
France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.
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Funk
Funk is a music genre that originated in African American communities in the mid-1960s when African American musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of soul music, jazz, and rhythm and blues (R&B).
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Grime (music genre)
Grime (also known as, Eskibeat, 8Bar, Sublow and UK Bashment) is a genre of music that emerged in London in the early 2000s.
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Guitar
The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.
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High We Exalt Thee, Realm of the Free
"High We Exalt Thee, Realm of the Free" is the national anthem of Sierra Leone.
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Hip hop music
Hip hop music, also called hip-hopMerriam-Webster Dictionary entry on hip-hop, retrieved from: A subculture especially of inner-city black youths who are typically devotees of rap music; the stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rap; also rap together with this music.
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Internet
The Internet is the global system of interconnected computer networks that use the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to link devices worldwide.
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Kono people
The Kono people (pronounced koh noh) are a major ethnic group in Sierra Leone at about 7.6% of the country's total population.
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Limba people (Sierra Leone)
The Limba people are a major ethnic group in the Sierra Leone.
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Loko people
The Loko (IPA: Lɔkɔ) are one of the indigenous ethnic groups in Sierra Leone.
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Mandingo people of Sierra Leone
The Mandinka people of Sierra Leone (commonly referred to as the Mandingo, Mandinka or Malinke) is a major ethnic group in Sierra Leone and a branch of the Mandinka people of West Africa.
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Mandolin
A mandolin (mandolino; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is usually plucked with a plectrum or "pick".
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Mel languages
The Mel languages are a branch of Niger–Congo languages spoken in Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia.
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Mende people
The Mende people (also spelled Mendi) are one of the two largest ethnic groups in Sierra Leone; their neighbours, the Temne people, have roughly the same population.
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Music
Music is an art form and cultural activity whose medium is sound organized in time.
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Music of Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone's music is a mixture of native, French, British, West Indian and Creole musical genres.
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Music of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Music of the Democratic Republic of the Congo varies in its different forms.
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Palm-wine music
Palm-wine music (known as maringa in Sierra Leone) is a West African musical genre.
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Percussion instrument
A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater (including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles); struck, scraped or rubbed by hand; or struck against another similar instrument.
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Reggae
Reggae is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s.
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Rhythm and blues
Rhythm and blues, commonly abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s.
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Seyyedan, Khusf
Seyyedan (سيدان, also Romanized as Seyyedān; also known as Seydū, Seydūn, Sīdān, and Sīdu) is a village in Qaleh Zari Rural District, Jolgeh-e Mazhan District, Khusf County, South Khorasan Province, Iran.
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Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone, officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country in West Africa.
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Sierra Leone Creole people
The Sierra Leone Creole people (or Krio people) is an ethnic group in Sierra Leone.
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Soul music
Soul music (often referred to simply as soul) is a popular music genre that originated in the African American community in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
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Steel-string acoustic guitar
The steel-string acoustic guitar is a modern form of guitar that descends from the nylon-strung classical guitar, but is strung with steel strings for a brighter, louder sound.
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Temne people
The Temne people, also called Time, Temen, Timni or Timmanee people, are an African ethnic group.
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Trinidad
Trinidad is the larger and more populous of the two major islands of Trinidad and Tobago.
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Trumpet
A trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles.
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West Africa
West Africa, also called Western Africa and the West of Africa, is the westernmost region of Africa.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Sierra_Leone