Semba ( port. Semba ) is a genre of African popular music that originated in the 40s of the XX century in Luanda .
| Semba | |
|---|---|
| Direction | African pop music |
| The origins | masemba |
| Place and time of occurrence |  in the 40s of the XX century, Angola |
| Heyday | from the late 1960s to the present |
| Related | |
| Samba | |
| Derivatives | |
| Kizomba , Kuduru | |
| see also | |
| Bong quenda | |
One of the earliest examples of the Semba musical genre has been preserved in the form of the first known Angolan score dating back to 1875. The song is called "Madya Kandimba" ( Madya Kandimba ), it tells the story of a European love for his African maid [1] . More precisely, the composition was written for the Masemba choir, and its melodics and poetics testify to the symbiosis of African and European cultures.
Marisa Jean Morman (Marissa Jean Moorman) wrote that a new musical genre of samba appeared in the 60-70s of the XX century [2] .
A characteristic feature of salba, like all Angolan music, is improvisation, a fluid repeating rhythm, a complex polyrhythmia of percussion instruments and a pronounced syncopated manner of performance.
Content
Selected Discography
Discography of Semba performers on the Afromix.org website [3] .
Best Semba Performers
Brief information about the leading composers and performers of the Angolan samba is presented on the French site "Le Semba" [4] .
Notes
- ↑ Sylvie Clerfeulle. Angola (Fr.) . Afrisson (May 11, 2007). Date of treatment May 3, 2015.
- ↑ Moorman, Marissa Jean. Intonations: A Social History of Music and Nation in Luanda, Angola, from 1945 to Recent Times . - Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2008 .-- P. XXII. - 290 p. - ISBN 0821418238 .
- ↑ Bandas e Artistas de Semba (port.) (Unavailable link) . afromix.org. Date of treatment May 4, 2015. Archived on August 17, 2017.
- ↑ Grands compositeurs et interprètes du Semba (French) . Le Semba.com (2012). Date of treatment May 4, 2015.