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A late 20th century wood, paint, feathers, metal and wool mask from the Chewa people in Malawi, collected by Laurel Birch de Aguilar for the British Museum. Nyau (also: Nyao meaning mask [1] or initiation) is a secret society of the Chewa, an ethnic group of the Bantu peoples from Central and Southern Africa. [2]
Psychedelic folk (sometimes wyrd folk, acid folk or freak folk) [2] is a loosely defined form of psychedelia that originated in the 1960s. It retains the largely acoustic instrumentation of folk , but adds musical elements common to psychedelic music .
The Rough Guide To Psychedelic Africa is a world music compilation album originally released in 2012 featuring 1960s and 1970s African popular music.Part of the World Music Network Rough Guides series, the album contains two discs: an overview of the genre on Disc One, and a "bonus" Disc Two highlighting Victor Uwaifo.
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Traditional African music supplies appropriate music and dance for work and for religious ceremonies of birth, naming, rites of passage, marriage and funerals. [1] The beats and sounds of the drum are used in communication as well as in cultural expression. [2]
The Mudra Afrique (or, Centre Africain de Perfectionnement et de Recherche des Interprètes du Spectacle Mudra Afrique) was a school founded in Dakar, Senegal in 1977 by Léopold Sédar Senghor, Maurice Béjart and the UNESCO based on multiculturalism and a Pan-African philosophy of uniting the African through the commonalities in the different ways of artistic self-expression throughout the ...
Afro fusion (also spelled afrofusion or afro-fusion) [1] [2] is a dance and musical style that emerged between the 1970s and 2000s. [a] In the same way as the dance style, the musical style invokes fusions of various regional and inter-continental musical cultures, such as jazz, hip hop, kwaito, reggae, soul, pop, kwela, blues, folk, rock and afrobeat.
for dances common to several cultures of Africa, for undecided ethnicity, or; ... African folk dances (1 C, 20 P) G. Ghanaian dances (1 C, 6 P) K. Kizomba (1 C, 1 P) S.