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• Folk & WorldAmapiano2010年代の南アフリカで生まれた、ハウスに深い低音と、尾を引く独特の電子打楽器「ログドラム」を乗せたダンス音楽。2020年代、世界のクラブを席巻した南アフリカ発のサウンドだ。
• Electronic & DanceGqomふつうのダンス音楽は等間隔のビートを刻むが、Gqom(ゴム)はそれをわざと崩す——南アフリカ・ダーバンの貧困地区(タウンシップ)で2010年前後に生まれたこの音楽は、その「重さ」そのものが正体だ。最小限の打楽器と、定速を外した重たいキック(バスドラム)が骨格をなす。テンポは速いのに、聴くとずっしりと重く沈む。
• Latin & CaribbeanKizombaThe 1980s Angolan slowdown of semba — with a Caribbean-zouk touch — that became the couple-dance backbone of Afro-Lusophone pop.
• Electronic & DanceKuduroAngolan electronic dance music from late-1990s Luanda — distorted kicks at 130-140 BPM, rap-shouted vocals, designed for hyperkinetic dance.
• Folk & WorldKwaitoPost-apartheid Johannesburg's slowed-down house music, sung over the township beat in local languages rather than English.
• PopSunguraZimbabwean dance pop derived from East African rumba and benga, with intricate guitar lines and Shona vocals.
• Folk & WorldMaskandiZulu guitar-and-storytelling music born from migrant mine workers, with one foot in the rural kraal and one in the Johannesburg hostel.
• Folk & WorldTsapikyThe high-speed electrified funeral-vigil music of southwest Madagascar's Toliara port — a beko ritual descendant now touring European festivals via Damily.
• Rock & MetalChimurenga MusicThe Zimbabwean electrified-mbira political rock Thomas Mapfumo built in the 1970s — Shona ritual keyboard rhythms carried into an anti-colonial band idiom.
• Folk & WorldChimurenga MusicZimbabwean political guitar music led by Thomas Mapfumo, with electric-guitar parts that imitate the mbira thumb piano.

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