Talk:Afrobeat

message: The style is called American in the infobox, and indeed, is influenced by American music, but is generally seen as an African musical form.  Another artist claiming to have originated the style of Afrobeat is O.J. Ekemode, another Nigerian and contemporary of Fela.  It seems to me also that some mention might be made of the Brazilian diva Margareth Menezes, whose music falls in the Afrobeat vein.--Rockero
:The infobox is for funk, not Afrobeat, so I've removed it.  I don't think there's any need for an infobox here. Tuf-Kat 05:22, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The list of contemporary Afrobeat performers definitely needs to be cut down. Thoughts? - AKeen 13:07, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
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message: The article somehow bundles Afrobeat, which is a genre of music originating in the 1970s in Nigeria with Afropop and Afrofusion. 
They are all entirely different music genres with different sounds entirely. 
Afrobeat is a music genre which involves the combination of elements of West African musical styles such as fuji music and highlife with American funk and jazz influences, with a focus on chanted vocals, complex intersecting rhythms, and percussion.
Afropop, is a different music genre which involves some elements of American Hip Hop and fuji. A good example is Wizkid's Ojuolegba. 
Afrofusion on the other hand is the kind of music this article refers to as Afrobeats. It's a drummier version of Afropop, with the main focus of the song being the drums, rather than the lyrics. Real limbowe (talk) 07:48, 23 July 2019 (UTC)
replies: text:  You aren't the first to bring this up, and you're absolutely correct. This article also confuses Afroswing with afrobeat/s. It needs a big re-work, I'd welcome anyone who gave it a go. I might one day Madbrad200 (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 12:23, 23 July 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree - I'd really like to see some clarity brought to the topic (which probably needs splitting into the different genres). See also the first discussion above (What?). I don't have the expertise or time, but happy to help with split proposals and suchlike. If you would like to be involved in the editing process, , just please familiarise yourself with the ground rules, especially about citations from reliable sources needed, and where you can ask questions (assuming that you're a new user?), etc. Laterthanyouthink (talk) 13:41, 23 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Afrobeats is a different genre of music from Afrobeat 

message: I propose that the afrobeats section located at Afrobeat#Afrobeats be split into a separate page called Afrobeats (currently a redirect). As discussed elsewhere on this talk-page, and in the main article itself, afrobeats and afrobeat are very different genres and sounds. Reasons for splitting:
A) misleading, because it suggests are two are highly related, when in-effect the afrobeats styles we hear today - while derived from afrobeat - are quite far afield from the 1970s sound. This is most obvious if you take a moment to compare a wizkid song to fela kuti.
B) there are many sources that indicate the two genres are not the same. 
C) The size of the draft afrobeats article I have written is far bigger than the current afrobeat page, and even if the two above points don't matter, this alone is reason enough to split per the Wikipedia:Splitting#Size_split guidelines.
Would appreciate your thoughts (since you discussed this earlier) , , , 
 Madbrad200 (talk) 01:59, 29 August 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Support. I can't be of much help in the near future, but I'd support such a split. It seems quite clear that they are different genres. I suggest that each article has a hatnote to be immediately visible to the casual reader, who may be looking for the other one. Laterthanyouthink (talk) 04:01, 29 August 2019 (UTC)

text: Support.  First and foremost I must thank you for creating the draft article. It is well written and well organized. I really think you just go ahead and move the draft article to mainspace. Once that happens, the Afrobeats section in the Afrobeat article can be removed altogether.  Versace1608  Wanna Talk? 13:07, 1 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Splitting proposal 

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