Afrobeats

Afrobeats

music genre

Subclass of	pop music, music of West Africa

Afrobeats, make you no conf plus Afrobeat anaa Afroswing, be an umbrella term make dem describe popular music from West Africa den de diaspora^[1][2] wey dem initially develop insyd Nigeria, Ghana, den de UK insyd de 2000s den 2010s. Afrobeats be less of a style per se, den more of a descriptor for de fusion of sounds wey dey flow out of Nigeria den Ghana. Genres such as hiplife, jùjú music, highlife, azonto music, den naija beats, among odas, na ebe amalgamated under de "Afrobeats" umbrella.^[3][4][5][6]

1. ↑ Khan, Ahmad (21 September 2017). "A Conversation with the Queen of Afrobeats: Tiwa Savage". HuffPost. Archived from the original on 25 July 2020. Retrieved 22 August 2019.
2. ↑ "Pop Music's Nigerian Future". The FADER. Archived from the original on 22 August 2019. Retrieved 23 August 2019.
3. ↑ "The Evolution of Afropop". Red Bull (in English). Archived from the original on 2019-08-24. Retrieved 2019-08-24.
4. ↑ Adu-Gilmore, Leila (2015). "Studio Improv as Compositional Process Through Case Studies of Ghanaian Hiplife and Afrobeats". Critical Studies in Improvisation (in English). 10 (2). doi:10.21083/csieci.v10i2.3555. ISSN 1712-0624.
5. ↑ "Afropop Worldwide | Jesse Shipley, Part 1: Pan Africanism and Hiplife". Afropop Worldwide (in English). Archived from the original on 2019-08-25. Retrieved 2019-08-25.
6. ↑ "Sound Culture Fest's Afro-Caribbean Rhythm Mission: 'This Goes Deep Into Roots'". www.villagevoice.com. September 2015. Archived from the original on 2019-08-25. Retrieved 2019-08-25.