How has Thomas Mapfumo’s chimurenga music merged Euro American popular music features with traditional African musical features?
What will be an ideal response?
• He has combined the Euro American features of studio-produced music played on popular music instruments (guitars, drum set, etc.) using a strongly metrical beat and Western harmonies/musical forms with
• traditional African musical features such as complex, interlocking rhythms derived from mbira music, polyrhythmic interplay, and collective improvisation
• to present African lyrics to a praise poem for warriors.
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