Mbalax
Mbalax (pronounced: umm bah-laak or mballach ) is a popular music style in West Africa, especially in Senegal and Gambia .
Mbalax mixes many different regional influences with fast rhythm and blues and for example Soca . The rhythm is often characterized by fast runs of the drum group, to which the hourglass drum tama and the larger standing drum sabar belong. Sabar also means an old Wolof dance music tradition that has had an impact on the Mbalax. There is also a bright, funky rhythm guitar.
The texts in Mbalax often make a religious reference to actors of West African Sufism , which is widespread in Senegal with the three orders of Tidschānīya , Muridiyya and Qādirīya . In their ballad form they are reminiscent of the praise of griots . The language is Wolof .
Before the Mbalax fashion, Senegalese pop music tastes were also heavily influenced by Latin America until the 1970s . Since the 1990s, the original hip-hop culture of the metropolis Dakar , called Senerap , has been playing alongside the Mbalax .
Representative of the Mbalax
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The best-known Mbalax author and interpreter is Youssou N'Dour . Further representatives of the Mbalax are:
- Ady Thioune
- Alioune Mbaye Nder
- Alioune kassé et les kassé stars
- Babacar Faye
- Boy chestnut
- Ceddo
- Cheikh Lô
- Cherif Mbaw
- Coumba Gawlo
- Dieuf Dieul
- Djanbutu Thiossane
- Etoile de Dakar
- Falou Dieng
- Fatou Guewel
- Ismaël Lô
- Lemzo Diamono
- Mapathe Diop
- Missal
- Change
- Ndongo Lô
- Omar Pene
- Ouza
- Pape Diouf
- Secka
- Solo Cissokho
- Great Cayor de Dakar
- Super diamono
- Thio Mbaye
- Thione Seck
- Viviane
- Waflash
- Wato Sita
- Xalam
- Xalat de Dakar
literature
- Cornelia Panzacchi: Mbalax Wed. Music scene Senegal. Peter Hammer, Wuppertal 1996, ISBN 3872947176
- Anja Brunner: The beginnings of Mbalax. On the creation of a Senegalese popular music. Institute for Musicology, Vienna 2010, ISBN 3950286616