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Old World/New World, Part 2

by AAJ Staff
March 12, 2003

With the massive cultural impacts of colonialism, technology, and commerce, African music has moved rapidly away from its centuries-old traditional roots. The influences of jazz and Caribbean music (particularly Cuban rhythms and calypso) were massive in West Africa during the '50s and '60s, a time when sailors brought New World music across the ocean and records ...

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Article: African Jazz

Old World/New World

by AAJ Staff
February 12, 2003

When it comes to musical styles, there is beauty in purity. Traditions lasting a century (eg. jazz) or many centuries (eg. West African drumming) accrue value through generations of musicians adding to a common style. As time progresses, the music experiences gradual change. There's also virtue in cross-pollination. As time has passed, jazz has ...

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Zimbabwe: Shona Mbira Music

by AAJ Staff
January 16, 2003

Listeners who come to traditional African music from the American variety will find it a refreshingly organic experience. The sonorities reflect a variety of instruments both ancient and modern, including drums and percussion instruments (of course) but also extending far beyond to strings, flutes, and a wide range of plucked or hammered metal and wood instruments. ...