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- Benga is a genre of Kenyan popular music. It evolved between the late 1940s and late 1960s, in Kenya's capital city of Nairobi.
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Benga is a genre of Kenyan popular music. It evolved between the late 1940s and late 1960s, in Kenya's capital city of Nairobi.
- Setting the Background. A characteristic of popular music the world over is the element of mystery surrounding the origins of the genre and sometimes also, the real meaning of its name.
- What, exactly, is Benga Music? Benga’s most distinctive feature is its fast-paced rhythmic beat and bouncy finger-picking guitar technique. Indeed, the core of benga is the lead guitar, which essentially follows the track of the vocals.
- Tradition— Adaptations and Innovations. The traditional Benga sound is about 60 years old with its formative years occurring between the late 1950s and the 1960s.
- Transition to Benga. Soon after the end of the Second World War, a handful of demobilized soldiers who had been conscripted from Luoland arrived back home with an instrument that would herald new practices of entertainment amongst their people—the Spanish guitar.
Benga, a fusion of current and traditional Kenyan Luo music in which the guitar is used to imitate a Luo eight-string lyre known as a nyatiti. The fast-paced rhythmic pulse and lively finger-picking guitar approach of Benga are its most distinguishing features.
Aug 26, 2023 · Benga music is native to the shore-dwellers of Lake Victoria in East Africa – the Luo tribe. They brought the distinct music to other Kenyan communities, mostly through their rural-urban migration to Nairobi, shortly after independence from British colonial rule in the 1960s.
Benga is a genre of Kenyan popular music. It evolved between the late 1940s and late 1960s, in Kenya's capital city of Nairobi.
Nov 16, 2023 · Deeply rooted in the traditions of the Luo people, Benga music is a genre that originated in Kenya, around the area of Lake Victoria. It emerged in the late 1940s and early 1950s, gained popularity in urban centers like Nairobi and Kisumu, and became one of the most influential genres in East Africa and one of Kenya’s unheralded musical exports.
Jul 10, 2015 · Benga music can trace its roots in the 1950s along the shores of Lake Victoria where local musicians began adopting traditional stringed instruments the likes of nyatiti and orutu to the acoustic guitar.
