tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5969587639881528619.post6778582425551632663..comments2023-10-21T09:46:24.297-04:00Comments on acetone studio: In Search of African VinylACEtone Studiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01146405564452195774noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5969587639881528619.post-3660721727873347662008-08-17T09:02:00.000-04:002008-08-17T09:02:00.000-04:00Hey! Thanx for the plug.I might have not made mysl...Hey! Thanx for the plug.<BR/>I might have not made myslelf clear enough. Of course there's plenty of American, Caribbean and even some European influence to be heard in the African Pop music I've been digging up down there. But: Even though I'm no musicologist, I think that it's pretty safe to say that Africa is the most important source of all pop music. I mean without Africans, what kind of popular music whould have developed in the US? Probably some decisively unfunky fusion of Irish Folk and Polka.<BR/><BR/>or take Salsa as an example, Danialou Sagbohan from Benin told me in an interview that Salsa originally is a rhtythm from his home village that has been used in Voodoo rituals since the beginning of time. A friend told me that Ned Sublette in his book "Cuba and its music" (that i have not yet read myself) also comes to the conclusion that Salsa is in fact an African rhythm.<BR/><BR/>It always kind of rubbed me the wrong way to read about how some people feel that African Pop music would be too much influenced by music from the outside and not be "proper" African music. You often have to look up African Pop music under "World Music" or "Ethno" (both terms which I despise). I don't want to start rambling here and maybe as a born German, I shouldn't even feel all this passionately about these issues but I really think that African Pop Music should be treated as nothing less but "African Music", an accomplishment of this beatiful continent that symbolises the "homecoming" of its music that had changed and picked up new influences on its way around the world but still remains Afrian.Frankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11971992442874225933noreply@blogger.com