Fusion etno music

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There is a lot of that today, most mainstream music in the 3th world is a fusion of their traditional music and music they hear on the internet. A key example of that is the big Afrobeats scene (not the same as Afrobeat, the music of Fela Kuti and co) that started in West Africa (Lagos, Accra, Kumasi) and conquered the whole Africa and big parts of the rest of the world). They mix traditional music, old pop (Highlife, afrobeat) with European house & Techno, gospel and urban music. The biggest artist in that scene now is Master KG (South Africa) who had a monsterhit with the gospelsinger Nomcmbo called "Jerusalema." It's basicly a gospelsong full sang in Isizulu (the language of the Zulu tribe) set to an Afrobeats instrumental, But in the whole Africa and Europe it became a monsterhit that everybody sings with (with the sound).

The video i'm linking is a group of dancers in Angola who made a video on it dancing to the song. That video went worldwide viral and there are thousands of youtube video's of others arround the world doing this dance.

Jerusalema Dance Challenge- By Fenomenos do Semba🇦🇴 Master KG - YouTube

But fusion is as old as their is music crossing borders. Blues and jazz are also a form of fusion, of west-african (griot) music of the (former) slaves with European folk music of their (former) masters.

Some fusion artists i like now:

Yazz Ahmed (Arab music mixed with Jazz)
Black Flower (Arab, Turkish ethiopian, jazz, ...)
Kel Assouf (Tuareg hard rock)
Kosmo sound (jazz meets dub)
 
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