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African popular music

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African popular music

Summary

African popular music is a music genre[1]. It draws 93 Wikipedia views per month (music_genre category, ranking #464 of 1,946).[2]

Key Facts

  • African popular music's instance of is recorded as music genre[3].
  • African popular music's subclass of is recorded as popular music[4].
  • African popular music's subclass of is recorded as music of Africa[5].
  • African popular music's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02p4l6s[6].
  • African popular music's topic's main category is recorded as Category:African popular music[7].
  • African popular music's Munzinger Pop ID is recorded as 02000000005[8].
  • African popular music's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as art/African-popular-music[9].
  • African popular music's topic has template is recorded as Template:Genres of African popular music[10].
  • African popular music's GTAA ID is recorded as 262844[11].
  • African popular music's different from is recorded as Afrobeats[12].
  • African popular music's Quora topic ID is recorded as Afropop[13].
  • African popular music's Yle topic ID is recorded as 18-299453[14].
  • African popular music's AllMusic genre/style ID is recorded as ma0000011881[15].
  • African popular music's Every Noise at Once ID is recorded as afropop[16].
  • African popular music's iTunes genre ID is recorded as 1178[17].
  • African popular music's iTunes genre ID is recorded as 1906[18].
  • African popular music's iTunes genre ID is recorded as 8307[19].
  • African popular music's The Oxford Dictionary of Music entry ID is recorded as 10125[20].

Why It Matters

African popular music draws 93 Wikipedia views per month (music_genre category, ranking #464 of 1,946).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 9 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] It is known by 21 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Quora. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [22] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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