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African dance (also Afro dance, Afrodance and Afro-dance) [1][2][3][4][5] refers to the various dance styles of sub-Saharan Africa. These dances are closely connected with the traditional rhythms and music traditions of the region. Music and dancing is an integral part of many traditional African societies.
Vernon and Irene Castle, early ballroom dance pioneers, c. 1910 –18. Modern ballroom dance has its roots early in the 20th century, when several different things happened more or less at the same time. The first was a movement away from the sequence dances towards dances where the couples moved independently.
The music of Nigeria includes many kinds of folk and popular music. Little of the country's music history prior to European contact has been preserved, although bronze carvings dating back to the 16th and 17th centuries have been found depicting musicians and their instruments. [1] The country's most internationally renowned genres are ...
The types of dance performed in social gatherings change with social values. [3] Social dance music of the 14th century has been preserved in manuscript, though without proper choreography, for dances such as the ballo, carol, stampita, saltarello, trotto and roto. [4] The 15th century is the first period from which written records of dances exist.
Computer music. Hyperpop. Internet meme. Dance music. Slow dance. Drug use in music. Incidental music or music for stage and screen: music written for the score of a film, play, musicals, or other spheres, such as filmi, video game music, music hall songs and showtunes and others.
Afrobeat (also known as Afrofunk[1][2]) is a Nigerian music genre, fusing influences from Nigerian (such as Yoruba music) with American funk, jazz, and soul influences. [3] With a focus on chanted vocals, complex intersecting rhythms, and percussion, [4] the style was pioneered in the 1960s by Nigerian multi-instrumentalist and bandleader Fela ...
Etighi. Etighi is a Nigerian dance. The etighi dance was founded by the Akwa Ibom people. The dance requires movement of the leg and the waist. The dance is known across Nigeria and popularly used by the Ibibio and Efik people where its origin began. [1]
Afrobeats is an umbrella term to describe popular music from West Africa and the diaspora [1][2] that initially developed in Nigeria, Ghana, and the UK in the 2000s and 2010s. Afrobeats is less of a genre per se, and more of a descriptor for the fusion of sounds flowing majorly out of Nigeria. Genres such as hiplife, jùjú music, highlife ...