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The West's narrow view of African music is damaging the continent's culture
Original: The west has a blinkered view of African music – and it’s hurting the whole continent’s culture https://www. theguardian
A Guardian opinion piece argues that Western audiences and industry reduce African music to a handful of export-friendly genres like Afrobeats, overlooking the continent's enormous musical diversity. The author says this narrow framing distorts how African artists are marketed and valued globally, and ultimately harms the broader culture the music comes from. The piece names artists such as Tyla in its discussion of how the genre label is applied.
Why now: Ongoing debates about how Western media and the music industry categorise and commercialise African artists keep this argument current.
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- The west has a blinkered view of African music – and it’s hurting the whole continent’s culture https://www. theguardian.com/music/2026/oct /06/african-music-afrobeats-tyla # PopAndRock # Music # Africa # Culture · theguardian_us_culture@halo.nu
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