kuduro
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Kuduro (or kuduru) is a type of music and dance born in Angola. It is characterized as uptempo, energetic, and danceable. Kuduro was developed in Luanda, Angola, in the late 1980s. Producers sampled traditional carnival music like soca and zouk béton ("hard" zouk) from the Caribbean to Angola, house and techno playing from Europe.
Key facts
- Music genre.name
- Kuduro
- Music genre.cultural_origins
- Angola
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- Origins
- Terminology
- Technology
- Generations of kuduro
- The first generation
- The second generation
- The third generation
- Popularity
- I Love Kuduro (festival)
- ''I Love Kuduro'' (film)
- References
- External links
Kuduro (or kuduru) is a type of music and dance born in Angola. It is characterized as uptempo, energetic, and danceable. Kuduro was developed in Luanda, Angola, in the late 1980s. Producers sampled traditional carnival music like soca and zouk béton ("hard" zouk) from the Caribbean to Angola, house and techno playing from Europe.
The kuduro is similar to semba. Its rhythm is laid out on a fast four-to-the-floor beat bass drum and some other instrument (snare drum, sidestick, etc.) performing the first two hits of the tresillo pattern.
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