Sub-Saharan African music traditions exhibit so many common features that they may in some respects be thought of as constituting a single musical system. While some African music is clearly contemporary-popular music and some is art-music, still a great deal is communal and orally transmitted while still qualifying as a religious or courtly genre.
Read more about Sub-Saharan African Music Traditions: Music and Dance in Sub-Saharan Societies, Regions, Sahel and Sudan, West Africa, Central Africa, East Africa, Southern Africa, Instruments
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... Sub-Saharan instruments are constructed in a variety of ways to generate polyrhythmic melodies ... Chordophones, such as the West African kora, and Doussn'gouni, part of the harp-lute family of instruments, also have this African separated double tonal array structure ... a new American instrument closely related to both the African kora and the kalimba was created in the latter 20th century to also exploit this adaptive ...
... Rhythm in Sub-Saharan Africa is typically generated by multiple cross-rhythmic cycles, in relation to a primary cycle of four main beats ... than what is normally heard in European music ... This accounts for the stereotype of African music as "repetitive." The cycles have a beginning and an end, with the two joining ...
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