Africa and African popular music

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Difference between Africa and African popular music

Africa vs. African popular music

Africa is the world's second largest and second most-populous continent (behind Asia in both categories). African popular music, like African traditional music, is vast and varied.

Similarities between Africa and African popular music

Africa and African popular music have 8 things in common (in Unionpedia): Afrobeat, Blues, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Highlife, Jazz, Rock music, Soukous, Zaire.

Afrobeat

Afrobeat, also known as afrofunk, is a music genre which developed in the 1970s when African musicians began combining elements of West African musical styles such as jùjú music and highlife with American funk and jazz influences, with a focus on chanted vocals, complex intersecting rhythms, and percussion.

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Blues

Blues is a music genre and musical form originated by African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the end of the 19th century.

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Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (République démocratique du Congo), also known as DR Congo, the DRC, Congo-Kinshasa or simply the Congo, is a country located in Central Africa.

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Highlife

Highlife is a music genre that originated in Ghana early in the 20th century.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Rock music

Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.

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Soukous

Soukous (from French secouer, "to shake") is a popular genre of dance music from the Congo Basin.

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Zaire

Zaire, officially the Republic of Zaire (République du Zaïre), was the name for the Democratic Republic of the Congo that existed between 1971 and 1997 in Central Africa.

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The list above answers the following questions

What Africa and African popular music have in common
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Africa and African popular music Comparison

Africa has 595 relations, while African popular music has 71. As they have in common 8, the Jaccard index is 1.20% = 8 / (595 + 71).

References

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