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How African Drummers Changed British Pop

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In 1980, Adam & the Ants and Bow Wow exploded British charts with a new sound: Burundi Beat. A style of cultural appropriation. In 1967, two French ethnomusicologists, Michel Vuylsteke and Charles Duvelle, went to Burundi, a small East African country. The goal was to record traditional music [...]
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How African Drummers Changed British Pop

In 1980, Adam & the Ants and Bow Wow exploded British charts with a new sound: Burundi Beat. A style of cultural appropriation. In 1967, two French ethnomusicologists, Michel Vuylsteke and Charles Duvelle, went to Burundi, a small East African country. The goal was to record traditional music [...]

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TSUGI broke the news in on Tuesday, July 29, 2025.
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