Africa's Musical Influence (people)

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Interesting interview with musician Bobby Sanabria.

NUVO: Many casual Latin music fans who dance salsa or listen to reggaeton are unaware of the music's deep African roots. Can you talk about that African influence?

Sanabria: Africa has influenced everything we do in American popular music - from jazz to rock to hip-hop to funk. It all basically comes down to the clave, which is a five beat rhythm we inherited from West and Central Africa through Cuba. For people who aren't familiar with clave, it's a rhythmic mantra we use as a foundation in Cuban music. If you've ever hear that phrase "shave, haircut - two bits," that's the basic clave of son which is the foundation music of what we call salsa today.

You can hear that rhythm in every style of American popular music today. It's very pronounced in New Orleans second line music, in funk and hip-hop. You hear it in all genres of rock, from punk to heavy metal. This rhythm really unites us and ties us to the music's roots in Western and Central Africa.

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[Pueblofuerte]

Nonsense. This is a bunch of journalistic tripe written by eternally mentally enslaved people.

It's common knowledge most popular Latin American genres have African roots.
The amount of references to Africa and Jamaica in various Latin American genres are innumerable.

Maybe the only genre this argument can be made is Tango, where the African influence has been diminished, washed out & largely forgotten.

What does this woman say at the start of this song?

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Originally Posted by Pueblofuerte

Nonsense. This is a bunch of journalistic tripe written by eternally mentally enslaved people.

It's common knowledge most popular Latin American genres have African roots.
The amount of references to Africa and Jamaica in various Latin American genres are innumerable.

Maybe the only genre this argument can be made is Tango, where the African influence has been diminished, washed out & largely forgotten.

I'm not clear on what you are disagreeing with from that interview?

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Here Bobby Sanabria highlights some popular Rock songs with Afro-Latin influences.