Mbalax (or mbalakh) is the urban dance music of Senegal, Mauritania and the Gambia. The musical style is rooted in the indigenous instrumental and vocal styles accompanied by polyrhythmic sabar drumming of the Wolof , a social identity that includes both the original Wolof people of the Greater Senegambia region and the urban panethnic identity ...

2015年2月9日 · Mbalax’s particular rhythm is obtained from a local instrument called sabar and has become the trademark of Senegalese music. Mbalax has completely overshadowed every other genre. Its local supremacy has prompted the creation of derivative genres such as ‘rock mbalax’, ‘zouk mbalax’ or even ‘salsa mbalax’.

Mbalax (pronounced “mm-ballah”) is the urban dance music of Senegal and the Gambia. It emerged in the early 1970s when local musicians began blending indigenous sounds with urban dance music from the African diaspora, Western genres, and other African styles.

…for introducing international audiences to mbalax—a Senegalese popular music style that blends Wolof traditional instrumental and vocal forms primarily with Cuban and other Latin American popular genres. He served as Senegal’s minister for culture and tourism (2012–13).

2021年8月17日 · Mbalax, or mbalakh, is a popular form of dance music in the West African countries of Senegal and the Republic of The Gambia. The music is a fusion of musical traditions from the Serer people—one of the largest ethnic groups …

Mbalax is the modern pop dance and party music of Senegal, though it originates from various traditions in the Wolof and Serer tribes of the country. Its sound has been modernized and changed as other cultures have added to it over time.

2019年3月11日 · Mbalax is a traditional music style from Senegal, characterized by its use of the sabar drum, a large cylindrical drum played with both hands. Mbalax music is often accompanied by the tama drum and features complex polyrhythms and call-and-response singing.

My research focuses on the articulation of cosmopolitanism through mbalax, an urban dance music distinct to Senegal and valued by musicians and fans for its ability to shape, produce, re-produce, and articulate overlapping ideas of their ethnic, racial, generational, gendered, religious, and national identities.

Mbalax (o mbalakh) es la música de baile urbana de Senegal y Gambia. El estilo musical tiene sus raíces en los estilos vocales e instrumentales indígenas acompañados de tambores sabar polirrítmicos de los wolof, una identidad social que incluye tanto al pueblo wolof original de la región de la Gran Senegambia como a la identidad ...

Mbalax (or mbalakh) is the national popular dance music of Senegal and the Gambia. In the 1970s, mbalax emerged as the distinctive sound of postcolonial Senegal. Derived from a fusion of indigenous Wolof sabar drumming with popular music principally from the African diaspora and African popular music, and to a lesser extent Western pop and afropop.