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Angolan Music
The music of Angola has been shaped both by wider musical trends and by the History of Angola, political history of the country. while Angolan music has also influenced the Lusophone music, music of the other Lusophone countries and Latin America, Latin American countries. In turn, the music of Angola was instrumental in creating and reinforcing "angolanidade", the Angolan national identity. The capital and largest city of Angola — Luanda — is home to a diverse group of styles including kazukuta, semba, kizomba and kuduro. Just off the coast of Luanda is Ilha do Cabo, home to an accordion and harmonica-based style of music called rebita. Folk music Semba Semba is the predecessor to a variety of music styles originating in Africa. Three of the most famous of these are samba, kizomba, and kuduro. Semba is popular in Angola today as it was long before that country's independence from the Portuguese colonial system on November 11, 1975. Various new Semba artists emerge each ...
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History Of Angola
Angola was first settled by San people, San hunter-gatherer societies before the northern domains came under the rule of Bantu peoples, Bantu states such as Kingdom of Kongo, Kongo and Ndongo. In the 15th century, Portuguese Empire, Portuguese colonists began trading, and a settlement was established at Luanda during the 16th century. Portugal annexed territories in the region which were Colonial history of Angola, ruled as a colony from 1655, and Angola was incorporated as an Administrative divisions of Portugal, overseas province of Portugal in 1951. After the Angolan War of Independence, which ended in 1974 with Carnation Revolution, an army mutiny and leftist coup in Lisbon, Angola achieved independence in 1975 through the Alvor Agreement. After independence, Angola entered a long period of Angolan Civil War, civil war that lasted until 2002. Prehistory The area of present day Angola was inhabited during the Paleolithic and Neolithic eras, as attested by remains found in ...
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Kimbundu Language
Kimbundu, a Bantu language which has sometimes been called Mbundu or North Mbundu (to distinguish it from Umbundu, sometimes called South Mbundu), is the second-most-widely-spoken Bantu language in Angola. Its speakers are concentrated in the north-west of the country, notably in the Luanda, Bengo, Malanje and the Cuanza Norte provinces. It is spoken by the Ambundu. Phonology Consonants Allophones: and are allophones of /p/ and /b/, respectively, before /a/ and /u/. The phoneme /l/ is phonetically a flap a voiced plosive or its palatalized version ʲwhen before the front high vowel /i/. In the same way, the alveolars /s/, /z/ and /n/ are palatalized to and respectively, before There may be an epenthesis of after /ŋ/ in word medial positions, thus creating a phonetic cluster gin a process of fortition. There is long distance nasal harmony, in which /l/ is realized as if the previous morphemes contain /m/ or /n/, but not prenasalized stops. Vowe ...
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Semba
Semba is a traditional type of music and dance from Angola. Semba has its roots in Massemba and means "a touch of belly buttons" - one of the most recognizable and entertaining movements in semba.History of Semba , Kizombalove Academy Characteristics Semba is very much alive and popular in Angola today as it was long before that country's independence from Portugal in November 11, 1975. Various new Semba artists emerge each year in Angola, as they render homage to the veteran Semba masters, many of whom are still performing. The subject matter of Semba is often a cautionary tale or story regarding day-to-day life and social events and activities, usually sung in a witty rhetoric. Through Semba music an artist is able to convey a broad spectrum of emotions. It is this characteristic that has made Semba the premiere style of music for a wide variety of Angolan social gatherings. Its versatility is evident in its inevitable presence at funerals and, on the other hand, many Ango ...
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Soukous
Soukous (from French '' secousse'', "shock, jolt, jerk") is a genre of dance music originating from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire) and the Republic of the Congo (formerly French Congo). It derived from Congolese rumba in the 1960s, with faster dance rhythms and bright, intricate guitar improvisation, and gained popularity in the 1980s in France. Although often used by journalists as a synonym for Congolese rumba, both the music and dance associated with soukous differ from more traditional rumba, especially in its higher tempo, song structures and longer dance sequences. Soukous fuses traditional Congolese rhythms with contemporary instruments. It customarily incorporates electric guitars, double bass, congas, clips, and brass/ woodwinds. Soukous lyrics often explore themes of love, social commentary, amorous narratives, philosophical musings, and ordinary struggles and successes. Singers occasionally sing and croon in Lingala, Kikongo, French and S ...
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Zaire
Zaire, officially the Republic of Zaire, was the name of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 1971 to 18 May 1997. Located in Central Africa, it was, by area, the third-largest country in Africa after Sudan and Algeria, and the 11th-largest country in the world from 1965 to 1991. With a population of over 23 million, Zaire was the most populous Francophone country in Africa. Zaire was strategically important to the West during the Cold War, particularly the U.S., as a counterbalance to Soviet influence in Africa. The U.S. and its allies supported the Mobutu regime (1965–1997) with military and economic aid to prevent the spread of communism. The country was a one-party totalitarian military dictatorship, run by Mobutu Sese Seko and his Popular Movement of the Revolution. Zaire was established following Mobutu's seizure of power in a military coup in 1965, after five years of political upheaval following independence from Belgium known as the Congo Crisis. Zaire ...
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Cuban Rumba
Rumba is a secular genre of Cuban music involving dance, percussion, and song. It originated in the northern regions of Cuba, mainly in urban Havana and Matanzas, during the late 19th century. It is based on African music and dance traditions, namely Abakuá and yuka (music), yuka, as well as the Spanish-based ''coros de clave''. According to Argeliers León, rumba is one of the major "genre complexes" of Cuban music, and the term rumba complex is now commonly used by musicologists. This complex encompasses the three traditional forms of rumba (yambú, guaguancó and columbia), as well as their contemporary derivatives and other minor styles. Traditionally performed by poor workers of African descent in streets and ''solares'' (courtyards), rumba remains one of Cuba's most characteristic forms of music and dance. Vocal improvisation, elaborate dancing and polyrhythmic drumming are the key components of all rumba styles. ''Cajón de rumba, Cajones'' (wooden boxes) were used as dru ...
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Music Of Cuba
The music of Cuba, including its instruments, performance, and dance, comprises a large set of unique traditions influenced mostly by west African and European (especially Spanish) music. Due to the syncretic nature of most of its genres, Cuban music is often considered one of the richest and most influential regional music in the world. For instance, the son cubano merges an adapted Spanish guitar (tres), melody, harmony, and lyrical traditions with Afro-Cuban percussion and rhythms. Almost nothing remains of the original native traditions, since the native population was exterminated in the 16th century. Since the 19th century, Cuban music has been hugely popular and influential throughout the world. It has been perhaps the most popular form of regional music since the introduction of recording technology. Cuban music has contributed to the development of a wide variety of genres and musical styles around the globe, most notably in Latin America, the Caribbean, West Africa, and ...
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David Zé
David Gabriel José Ferreira (23 August 1944 — 27 May 1977) was an Angolan musician, composer and activist. He began his singing career while Angola was still under the rule of the Portuguese Empire and his music often expressed Left-wing politics, left-wing and anti-colonialist sentiments. David Zé, along with Artur Nunes, Urbano de Castro and others, was a part of a group of musicians called the FAPLA-Povo Alliance who had the role to spread social and political awareness to Angolan citizens to start a laborist movement to reform Angola after its Angolan War of Independence, revolution. He was given the official position of Director of Music in the Culture Ministry in the incoming MPLA regime. His career only lasted for about a decade, but he managed to establish himself as one of the biggest names in the "Golden Age" of Music of Angola, Angolan music, the early 1970s in music, 1970s. He was kidnapped and later murdered by an unknown group of people who have been described as ...
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Os Kiezos
Os Kiezos is the name of a musical ensemble (conjunto) that emerged in 1963 in Marçal, a neighbourhood of Luanda. Known particularly within the genre of semba and Latin America, Latin music like Merengue music, merengue, rumba and bolero. Os Kiezos are considered to be one of the most influential musical groups from Angola. Origin In 1963, more precisely during the month of November, Domingos António Miguel da Silva "Kituxe" gathered three his friends and neighbours, namely, Mário Anselmo "Marito" de Sousa Arcanjo, Juventino "Tininho" Sousa Arcanjo and José "Avozinho" Francisco Portugal, who were all about 12 to 16 years of age, to make music. This group of young friends went on to make music together for a couple of months. The name “Os Kiezos” first appeared in 1965, in the context of a party in Rua B3, Rangel, more precisely, in Bairro Nelito Soares, where a gathering of young musicians who would later become Kiezos, had not been invited. The fact is that the intrude ...
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