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Old World/New World, Part 2
by AAJ Staff
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 ...
Old World/New World
by AAJ Staff
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 ...
Zimbabwe: Shona Mbira Music
by AAJ Staff
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. ...


