The names are nearly identical and the music is not. Conflating them erases both. Afrobeat and Afrobeats differ by one...
history
They existed because the majors would not distribute the music. What they built outlasted that problem. The independent labels that...
DJs isolated the part of a record where the band dropped out. Everything downstream came from that decision. The break...
A marketing term that happened to name something real: live playing, loose timing, and a deliberate turn away from the...
A small number of house bands played on an enormous share of the records. The consistency was not an accident....
National distribution usually flattens regional difference. In hip-hop it kept producing new ones. Most genres converge as distribution widens. Hip-hop...
