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Quick guide to kuduro
Sourced or Silent · CC BY-SA 4.0Kuduro (or kuduru) is a type of music and dance born in Angola.
01 · What it is
MusicVocal, percussive, or instrumental sound tradition carried by community performers.
02 · Where & name
AngolaWritten in its own script on record as Kuduro.
03 · How it is doing
□□□□ (Not yet assessed)Documented in open cultural records, but no cited field assessment of its current vitality has been added here yet.
04 · Proof & reuse
1 cited sourceEvery claim links to a public record below. Free to quote, teach, and share under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Common Questions Answered on Record
What is kuduro in plain words?
Kuduro (or kuduru) is a type of music and dance born in Angola. In local script on record, it is written Kuduro.
Where is kuduro practised or documented?
Sources on this page place kuduro in Angola.
What is the current condition of kuduro today?
□□□□ (Not yet assessed): Documented in open cultural records, but no cited field assessment of its current vitality has been added here yet.
How do I cite or share this kuduro entry?
Cite as: "kuduro." folkroom, https://folkroom.org/art-forms/kuduro, text CC BY-SA, with attribution.
The tradition & historical record
1 min read · 1 sourceKuduro (or kuduru) is a type of music and dance born in Angola. It is characterized as uptempo, energetic, and danceable. Kuduro was developed in Luanda, Angola, in the late 1980s. Producers sampled traditional carnival music like soca and zouk béton ("hard" zouk) from the Caribbean to Angola, house and techno playing from Europe.
The kuduro is similar to semba. Its rhythm is laid out on a fast four-to-the-floor beat bass drum and some other instrument (snare drum, sidestick, etc.) performing the first two hits of the tresillo pattern.
The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Kuduro”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence.
kuduro is type of music and dance from Angola, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. 1
The source record links this tradition to 9 external registers, which can be verified through the citation. 1
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