Tags: Genre, Music Genre, Topical Concept.

Sub-Saharan African music traditions exhibit so many common features that they may in some respects be thought of as constituting a single musical system. While some African music is clearly contemporary-popular music and some is art-music still a great deal is communal and orally transmitted while still qualifying as a religious or courtly genre.

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