#soukous — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #soukous, aggregated by home.social.
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#NowPlaying #FalsettoFriday #Falsetto #AfricanMusic
The keen ears at @blogamf hipped me to #CrammedDiscs’ 2022 release of this lost 1987 album by Congolese-born/Belgian-raised #MauricePotoDoudongo. It's future forward electro-funk, ala #ZazouBiyake - or #Prince, fr christs sake! - but steeped in the rhythms and textures of #CongoleseRumba and #Soukous. Rich, joyful, and really quite beautiful, this one gets me moving and still sounds relevant today.
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🎷🎶 « La fabrique de la sono mondiale. Des musiques africaines face à l’impérialisme culturel »
Le réseau thématique 14 « Sociologie de l’art et de la culture » organise prochainement un temps d’échanges avec Arielle Nganso, autour de son ouvrage :
Au cours des années 1970, la rumba, le soukous et le makossa forment une « sono mondiale » dont la circulation entre les continents est lourde d’enjeux politiques. Dans un contexte postcolonial fortement marqué par la persistance d’un impérialisme culturel français, leur renommée dépasse les frontières de l’Afrique centrale pour s’exporter en Europe et en Amérique, grâce à la popularité d’artistes comme Manu Dibango.
Cet ouvrage raconte la singulière histoire de ces musiques urbaines. De l’effervescence culturelle post-Mai 68 à la diffusion du jazz afro-américain, en passant par la promotion intéressée par l’État français d’une world music francophone, Arielle Nganso met en lumière les facteurs qui ont concouru à leur large diffusion et les logiques impériales qui l’ont structurée.
Elle souligne les grandes difficultés rencontrées par ces musiciens pour produire et diffuser leur art en France : se heurtant notamment à une conception exotisante de leur musique, ces derniers ont été contraints de la formater aux attentes des oreilles occidentales. Enfin, elle réinvestit la question de la restitution des œuvres d’art africaines, en y intégrant le champ musical.
🗓️ Mardi 16 décembre 2025, de 14h à 16h
📍 CNRS Site Pouchet, 59-61 rue Pouchet, Paris 17e - Salle 124Éditions Amsterdam : https://www.editionsamsterdam.fr/la-fabrique-de-la-sono-mondiale/
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#AFS #sociology #africa #culture #music #rumba #soukous #makossa #imperialism #worldmusic
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African Melody – 50 ans
https://amf.didiermary.fr/african-melody-50-ans/
Au Tchad, l’un des groupes musicaux mythiques du milieu des années 1970, African Melody (ou Melodie), a célébré son cinquantenaire en fin d’année 2024.
African Mélodie a vu le jour en novembre 1974 au bar la Concorde à N’Djamena. Sous l’influence de groupes congolais comme OK Jazz de Franco ou Afrisa International de Tabu Ley, […]
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Kanda Bongo Man – Malinga
https://amf.didiermary.fr/kanda-bongo-man-malinga/
Bongo Kanda (born 1 January 1955), aka Kanda Bongo Man, is a Congolese Soukous musician and singer. His career debuted in 1973 when he became the singer for the Belle Mambo band, developing a sound influenced by Tabu Ley. […]
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The Music Of Africa
Given the vastness of the African continent, its #music is diverse, with regions and nations having many distinct #musical #traditions #African music includes the #genres #amapiano #jùjú #fuji #afrobeat #highlife #Congolese #rumba #soukous #ndombolo #makossa #kizomba and others.[1] #African music also uses a large variety of instruments across the continent. The music and #dance of the African #diaspora formed to varying degrees on African #musical #traditions include #American #music like #Dixieland #jazz #blues #jazz and many #Caribbean genres such as #calypso (see #kaiso) and #soca Latin American music genres such as #cumbia #salsa music son #cubano #rumba #conga #bomba #samba and #zouk were founded on the music of enslaved #africans and have in turn influenced African popular musichttps://archive.org/details/lp_the-music-of-africa_various-ashanti-bernard-broere-chagga-c
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#MLK - themed special edition of Palm Wine Radio on #WMPG. That's what #CommunityRadio is all about!
"Palm Wine Radio
Jan 15, 2024 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM
Music
With DJ Zachariah
Palm Wine Radio, which brings you the best in classic and contemporary pop tunes from the musically diverse continent of #Africa. #Highlife, #Afropop, #JuJu, #Soukous, #Township, #Rai, #Makossa, and #Mbalax are some of the numerous genres that will be explored."
https://spinitron.com/WMPG/pl/18417175/Palm-Wine-Radio?sp=370769493
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#Music share from a random country:
#RepublicOfTheCongo 🇨🇬
The Republic of the #Congo, also Congo-Brazzaville, was under French colonial rule until its independence in 1960, but the republic had been established two years prior. It is sometimes very hard to keep the two Congos apart; both became independent in 1960 (one from France, the other from Belgium), and then things got politically rather turbulent, however, the DRC was much worse off than its northern counterpart, leading eventually to the 1st and 2nd Congo wars during the 90s-00s, and costing millions of lives. But I'm getting side-tracked from Congo-Brazzaville here; a great example of how the DRC tends to dominate any conversation about the region.
Yesterday I mentioned how the word "jazz" is used in an African context, well, that same thing applies here again. However, in the Republic of the congo, the musical mixing had a different permutation from Guinea. There's much more #rumba and #Caribbean influence present in what later became #soukous, but both Congolese capitals, Brazzaville and Kinshasa, which face each other across the mighty Congo river, contributed to the overall sound of this very popular genre.
This is Batoboli by Ry-co Jazz and Soukous Stars. It's very danceable, and the bass lines are definitely dancing and driving. Plus hey, we also get a lovely #saxophone solo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbmHQO7_3zY
For the next random country we're skipping across the Indian Ocean to #Indonesia 🇮🇩 -
Listing some interests to help make more connections!
#UrbanExploration
#scuba
#tennis
#hiking
#StarTrek
#caving
#soukous
#timba
#WorldTraveler
#HomeRepair
#BrownUniversity
#MontclairNJ
#BattlestarGalactica
