Fusion music
While a lot of music has influences from around the world, fusion is a genre itself. Fusion music is a blend of two or more styles of music. Fusion music cannot be called just one Style of music. because it can be a mixture from many different types of world music. For example, bhangra music is a fusion of traditional Indian music and Western popular music.
Composers have been influenced by other world cultures throughout history, but pop fusions like Afro Celt Sound System and Capercaillie have become more common since the 1960s.
The following timeline includes some of the most notable fusion albums and artists since the 1960s.
Other examples of 20th century fusion projects and their origins are:
- Afro Celt Sound System - Irish traditional, West African traditional, electric dance
- Esperanza Spalding - Highly syncopated, lively Brazilian dance. with A genre of music that has swing and syncopated rhythms, and extended chords.
- Dizzy Gillespie and Machito - Afro-Cuban with jazz
- Buena Vista Social Club - fusion of African and South American elements with American guitar
- Capercaillie - Gaelic traditional with modern music technology Method of creating a specific musical sound using recording and studio technology.
- Demet Akalin - Turkish folk with Western Music which has general appeal and is often linked to styles of the 1950s. Driven by a strong rhythmic element.
- Nitin Sawhney - Asian with elements of jazz, electronica and other worldwide influences
Fusion instrumentation
The Afro Celt Sound System song Release is a mix of Irish folk and West African instruments.
Celtic instruments
Image caption, Hurdy gurdy
a stringed instrument that uses mechanical wheels to rotate and rub against the strings to create the tone. The instrument sounds similar to the bagpipes.
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West African instruments
Image caption, Djembe
a skin-covered West African drum played by hands and tuned by ropes along the side. It sits between the performer’s legs.
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