The Sound of Kinshasa - Guitar Classics from Zaire (1995)

Posted by Sisca Cute Love U in , , on Friday, April 25, 2008

«Most of the great Afropop styles have grown out of a joining of urban and rural ideas, of indigenous roots and foreign borrowings. The story of Congolese pop music provides a complex and powerful example. By the closing years of the Belgian Congo, the city of Leopoldville (today's Kinshasa) was a place where city boys plucked out highlife songs on box guitars, phonographs and radios played the

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