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Afrobeats
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Afrobeats, not to be confused with Afrobeat or Afroswing, is an umbrella term to describe popular music from West Africa and the diaspora that initially developed in Nigeria, Ghana, and the UK in the 2000s and 2010s. Afrobeats is less of a style per se, and more of a descriptor for the fusion of sounds flowing out of Nigeria and Ghana. Genres such as hiplife, jùjú music, highlife, azonto music, and naija beats, among others, were amalgamated under the "Afrobeats" umbrella.
Key facts
- Music genre.name
- Afrobeats
- Music genre.cultural_origins
- 2000s Ghana / Nigeria
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
23 sectionsContents
- Characteristics
- Name
- History
- Beginnings
- Azonto and dance crazes
- Mid-2010s
- Late-2010s
- 2020s
- Subgenres
- Afro-Adura
- Azonto
- Banku music
- Pon Pon
- Fusion and derivative genres
- Afropiano
- Afrosoca
- Afroswing
- Bakosó
- Afro trap
- Alté
- See also
- Notes
- References
Afrobeats, not to be confused with Afrobeat or Afroswing, is an umbrella term to describe popular music from West Africa and the diaspora that initially developed in Nigeria, Ghana, and the UK in the 2000s and 2010s. Afrobeats is less of a style per se, and more of a descriptor for the fusion of sounds flowing out of Nigeria and Ghana. Genres such as hiplife, jùjú music, highlife, azonto music, and naija beats, among others, were amalgamated under the "Afrobeats" umbrella.
Afrobeats is primarily produced in Lagos, Accra, and London. Historian and cultural critic Paul Gilroy reflects on the changing London music scene as a result of shifting demographics:
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Afrobeats” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.