In an excerpt from the 33 ⅓ title "South African Popular Music," the author breaks down house music offshoots gqom and amapiano. When Beyoncé put together her companion soundtrack album, “The ...

Afrobeats and amapiano are the most popular African music genres to make waves in the United States. The former (marked by its jovial, up-tempo beats that fuse American funk with West African soul ...

Indeed, each nomination in the category was an English-language track and was mainly Afrobeats or amapiano, the South African House genre that’s grown increasingly popular over the past several ...

More recently, African winners including Angélique Kidjo (2008) and Youssou N’Dour (2005) have tended to be in the “World Music” category or “Global Music” which Burna Boy won in 2021.

A West African banjo-like akonting instrument on display in Spain's the Casa Museo del Timple, Lanzarote. CREDIT: own work/Creative Commons “Same thing with the fiddle,” he continued.

Nigerian singer Síkírù Àyìndé Barrister (1948-2010) pioneered fújì, a Yorùbá genre of popular dance music. In February 2024, historian Saheed Aderinto’s documentary on the musician’s life and times ...

Google’s YouTube Music is the most affordable individual subscription service in South Africa for streaming music, despite a price increase from R59.99 to R64.99 since the last comparison TechCentral ...

This year two of the new categories acknowledge the boom in African music and in modern jazz. In a minute, we'll hear from NPR Music's Rodney Carmichael.

This is music that, for me, lives comfortably within the realm of South African jazz. Embedded with folk music, it emanates an undeniable “South African-ness” while also being very much of the ...

“South African Popular Music” is published by Bloomsbury as part of the GENRES 33 ⅓ series. It is available in stores now.