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Afrobeat is a combination of Yoruba music, jazz, Highlife, and funk rhythms, fused with African percussion and vocal styles, popularized in Africa in the 1970s. The Music of the Yoruba people of Nigeria is best known for an extremely advanced drumming tradition especially using the Dundun hourglass Jazz is an American Musical art form which originated in the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States Highlife is a Musical genre that originated in Ghana and spread to Sierra Leone and Nigeria in the 1920s and other West African Funk is an American musical style that originated in the mid- to late-1960s when African American musicians blended Soul music, Soul Rhythm (from Greek ῥυθμός - rhythmos, "any measured flow or movement symmetry" is the variation of the length and accentuation of

Afrobeat's main creator and longstanding exclusive artist was the Nigerian multi-instrumentalist and bandleader Fela Kuti, who coined the term Afrobeat, shaped the musical structure and also the political context of the genre in Nigeria

Nigerians were first introduced to Afrobeat in 1970 when Kuti returned from a U. Nigeria, officially named the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal Constitutional republic comprising thirty-six states and one Federal A musician is a person who plays or writes Music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music An instrumentalist plays a A bandleader is the leader of a band of Musicians The term is most commonly though not exclusively used with a group that plays Popular music as Fela Anikulapo Kuti (born Olufela Olusegun Oludotun Ransome-Kuti, October 15 1938 – August 2 1997) or simply Fela, was Nigeria, officially named the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal Constitutional republic comprising thirty-six states and one Federal S tour with his group Nigeria 70 (formerly Koola Lobitos). Kuti's new sound haled from a club that he established called the Afro-Shrine. Upon arriving in Nigeria, Kuti changed the name of his group to Fela Ransome-Kuti & Africa 70. The band sustained a five-year residency in the Afro-Shrine from 1970-75 while Afrobeat thrived among Nigerian youth.


Characteristics of Afrobeat are:

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Origins

Afrobeat originated from the southern part of Nigeria in the 60s where Kuti experimented with many different forms of contemporary music of the time. Nigeria, officially named the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal Constitutional republic comprising thirty-six states and one Federal Prevalent in his music are native African harmonies and rhythms, taking different elements and combining, modernizing and improvising upon them. Politics are essential to the genre of Afrobeat, since founder Kuti used social criticism to pave the way for social change. Politics Politics is the process by which groups of people make decisions His message can be described as confrontational and controversial, which can be related to the political climate of most of the African countries in the 60s, many of which were dealing with political injustice and military corruption while recovering from the transition from colonial governments to self-determination.

As the genre spread throughout the African continent many bands took up the style. The recordings of these bands and their songs were rarely heard or exported outside the originating countries but many can now be found on compilation albums and CDs from specialist record shops.

Influence

Many jazz musicians have been attracted to Afrobeat. From Roy Ayers in the seventies to Randy Weston in the nineties, there have been collaborations which have resulted in albums such as Africa: Centre of the World by Roy Ayers, released on the Polydor label in 1981. Roy Ayers (born September 10, 1940, Los Angeles) is a Funk, soul and Jazz Vibraphone player Randy Weston (born April 6, 1926 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American Jazz Pianist and Composer In 1994 Branford Marsalis, the American jazz saxophonist, included samples of Fela's "Beast of No Nation" on his Buckshot leFonque album. Branford Marsalis ( August 26, 1960, Breaux Bridge, Louisiana) is an American Saxophonist, Composer and

Afrobeat has profoundly influenced important contemporary producers like Brian Eno, who credits Fela Kuti as an influence. Brian Peter George St John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno (born 15 May 1948 commonly known as Brian Eno (ˈiːnoʊ is an English Musician, producer The horn section of Antibalas are guest musicians on the Foals album, Antidotes. Antibalas (pronounced /ɑntiˈbɑlɑs/ or approximately "ahn-tee-BAH-las" from the Spanish for "bulletproof" is a Bushwick, Brooklyn based Foals are a band from Oxford England. The band are signed with Transgressive Records in Europe and Sub Pop in the USA An antidote or counterdose is a substance which can counteract a form of Poisoning.

New generation DJs of the 2000s who have fallen in love with both Kuti's material and other rare releases have made compilations and remixes of these recordings, thus re-introducing the genre to new generations of listeners and fans of Afropop and Groove.

Instrumentation

Big Band (15-30 pieces: Fela era Afrobeat)

Afrobeat Today

There are approximately 41 active afrobeat bands worldwide. Claves are a Percussion instrument ( Idiophone) consisting of a pair of short (about 20-30 cm thick dowels The shekere is a percussion instrument from Africa, consisting of a dried gourd with beads woven into a net covering the gourd

Modern Afrobeat bands include:

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