It is theorized that African music and dance evolved a highly complex rhythmic character rather than the melodic line of early European music due, in part, to its being performed outdoors.

据推测，非洲的音乐和舞蹈之所以演变成高度复杂的节拍特征而不是欧洲早期音乐的旋律线性，部分的原因，是因为它们是表演在户外的。

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In the mid-1960s, he developed a new African dance music influenced by places both in and outside Africa, including black America and the Middle East.

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In a sense, what I have done has been production with a lot of international producers and the music has been very much dance music - not predominantly African, not at all African.

NPR: A Song Unites British-Born Africans

Music and dance genres of African origin blend with dramatic plots, legends and figures derived from biblical and medieval European literature.

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