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	Makossa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Makossa is a type of music which is most popular in urban areas in Cameroon.
		It originated from a type of Doula dance called kossa, with significant influences from jazz, ambasse bey, Latin music, highlife and rhumba.
		While the makossa style began in the 1950's, the first recordings were not seen until a decade later.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Makossa (159 words)

	Music of Cameroon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Makossa is a type of funky dance music, best-known outside Africa for Manu Dibango, whose 1972 single "Soul Makossa" was an international hit.
		By the 1980s, makossa had moved to Paris and a new pop-makossa that fused elements of Antillean zouk.
		In the 1990s, both makossa and bikutsi declined in popularity as a new wave of genres entered mainstream audiences.
	www.portaljuice.com /music_of_cameroon.html (505 words)

	Soul Makossa (1972) - Manu Dibango
		One of the most spectacular discotheque records in recent months [1973] is a perfect example of the genre: Manu Dibango's "Soul Makossa." Originally a French pressing on the Fiesta label, the 45 was being largely undistributed by an African import company in Brooklyn when David Mancuso brought it to the attention of DJ Frankie Crocker.
		Within days, "Soul Makossa" was the underground record and when copies of the original 45 disappeared at $3 and $4, cover versions (many unlicensed and one a pirated copy put out under another group's name) were rushed out.
		The single was released in 1972, with "Soul Makossa" as its B-side.
	www.jahsonic.com /SoulMakossa.html (426 words)

	Frank Bessem's Musiques d'Afrique: Cameroun \| Music of Cameroon
		In Douala, makossa emerged from a traditional Douala rhythm, in Yaoundé balafon based bands such as the Richard Band de Zoétélé were popular.
		Makossa remained popular at least until the end of the 1980s.
		Since then, makossa music can be considered as a music style in crisis, but new talents have made their appearance.
	www.geocities.com /MotorCity/Speedway/4939/frames/mus_cam.html (270 words)

	CD Baby: HENRY DOOL: Makossa Potomac (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Though Cameroon's mainstream music is "Makossa," he never particularly wanted to limit his style and therefore found an inclination towards pop music.
		I must confess that this album is a classic of modern African popular music; it fuses Makossa and Soukous--music varieties from the Cameroons and the Congos.
		Makossa Potomac, song number eight, is a reprise on love sequence.
	www.cdbaby.com /cd/henrydool2?cdbaby=44f683b95cebd28700a6147cce870ebc (569 words)

	Makossa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Makossa is a type of music which is most popular in urban in Cameroon.
		It originated from a of Doula dance called kossa with significant influences from jazz ambasse bey Latin music highlife and rhumba.
		The early 1960s saw the first makossa recordings though began in the early 1950s.
	www.freeglossary.com /Makossa (255 words)

	makossa: Afropop Style -- Cameroon, West Africa
		In the 1950s, before Cameroon rallied around its homegrown makossa sound, the port city Douala moved to Nigerian highlife, Congolese rumba and Cuban music.
		Misse Ngoh, guitarist for Los Calvinos, moved makossa forward by developing the crisp, circular fingerpicking that became one of its trademarks.
		Makossa producers mixed the music's active bass lines loud for a punchy dancehall sound.
	www.afropop.org /explore/style_info/ID/9/makossa (541 words)

	::: SOUL STRUT ::: REVIEWS
		That’s mostly due to the fact that his song Soul Makossa was a huge international hit in the early 70s.
		Makossa Man was released a couple years after that song, but is just as good.
		Soul Makossa is the album that put Manu Dibango on the world music scene as the title track was a huge hit.
	www.soulstrut.com /reviews/crates/new.php?New=&page=45 (1252 words)

	Africana Masterpiece: Manu Dibango
		Soul Makossa's success provided the first major crack in the resistant armor of western stereotypes about African music, which overlooked the integral role of music in African societies and misrepresented traditional African music as too reliant on rhythm, and too simple in composition and arrangement.
		The pulsating rattle of snares is a constant reminder of the rhythmic diversity in the track, mediated by Dibango's firm handle on the saxophone, and his rhythmically salient oratory, which he predominates actual singing on the entire album.
		Soul Makossa's success lay not only in contradicting embedded myths about African music, it also challenged what at best was a negligent audience, not to mention a reluctant industry, to overcome these myths.
	www.africana.com /articles/daily/mu20040611dibango.asp (1147 words)

	Encyclopedia: Makossa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Cameroon is best-known for makossa, a popular style that has gained fans across Africa, and its related dance craze bikutsi.
		Manu Dibango (born December 12, 1933) is a Cameroonian saxophonist and vibraphone player.
		Makossa Manu Dibango (born December 12, 1933) is a Cameroonian saxophonist and vibraphone player.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Makossa (532 words)

	PLAY.FM - Listen to: DJ Makossa, Marcus Wagner, Marcus Wagner-Lapierre
		In the 80`s Makossa used to be resident dj in the legendary Viennese Club "U4" (together with Peter Rauhofer) as well as in the club "Camera".
		When at the beginning of the 90`s Makossa and his old friend Peter Kruder worked on a track and the sampler quit his job due to exhausted memory capacity, a man called Richard Dorfmeister assists with urgently required hardware.
		Makossa is resident DJ at the Dub Club Vienna/Flex.
	play.fm /playfm_artists.php?p_id=1174 (368 words)

	Makossa
		On this, her most recent outing, we are confronted with a host of styles, from Makossa to Bikutsi to Afrobeat to Afropop to RandB.
		The songs have the hiss of the old style recordings, but the collection is some of the creme de la creme of early makossa greats.
		The LA BIBLE DU MAKOSSA series is perhaps my favorite if only for the fact that it is not keyboard heavy but instead full of intircate guitar, live drums and live horn arrangements.
	www.africasounds.com /makossa.htm (707 words)

	Article - HAPPY BIRTHDAY MANU!
		Meanwhile, Makossa Man, who was honoured at "Africa FÃªte" in Dakar last week, prepares to play two mega-concerts in his homeland, in Douala and Yaounde.
		Although Soul Makossa originally came out as a French import and was the kind of record people generally threw on bonfires in South Carolina, it went on to become one of the dancefloor favourites in discos up and down the country.
		Dibango tended to be put in the soul/jazz category, but at the same time he managed to whip Soul Makossa up with all kinds of different musical flavours like rumba and salsaâ¦ When world music arrived on the scene in the 80s, Manu already had a head start on the others.
	www.rfimusique.com /siteEn/article/article_7204.asp (1195 words)

	Articles - Music of Cameroon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In 1980, L'Equipe Nationale de Makossa was formed, joining the biggest makossa stars of the period together, including Grace Decca, Ndedi Eyango, Ben Decca, Guy Lobe and Dina Bell.
		Makossa in the 80s saw a wave of mainstream success across Africa and, to a lesser degree, abroad, as Latin influences, Martinican zouk and pop music changed its form.
		While makossa enjoyed international renown, bikutsi was often denigrated as the music of savages and it did not appeal across ethnic lines and into urban areas.
	www.gaple.com /articles/Music_of_Cameroon (1834 words)

	Cameroon: Afropop Country -- West Africa, bikutsi, makossa
		In the 1950s, before Camerooneans rallied around the homegrown makossa sound, the port city Douala moved to Nigerian highlife, Congolese rumba and Cuban music.
		But the 50s and 60s saw a rapid development and rise of a danceable, modern music that still moves the nation today, makossa.
		In rural Cameroon, acoustic groups playing folkloric assiko, mangambe and bikutsi music worked the town bar-rooms in the days before the makossa boom.
	www.afropop.org /explore/country_info/ID/11/Cameroon (439 words)

	Manu Dibango (1933 - )
		His "Soul Makossa" is often considered the first disco record.
		In the 90s Dibango won a legal suit against Michael Jackson for his use of "Soul Makossa" on "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'", included on one of the 1980s biggest selling albums, Thriller.
		World attention came to Dibango with the release in 1972 of Soul Makossa, a work that actually had precious little of the makossa sound in it, and scored later hits with Seventies and Ibida.
	www.jahsonic.com /ManuDibango.html (331 words)

	Vanguard - Sports : Off the handball court, Homvo shows musical talent
		His is an account of the life of a multi- talented life still with dreams to conquer.
		But living in a French speaking country, whenever you sing Makossa, there is French in it.
		The language is Lidala language where Makossa came from.
	www.vanguardngr.com /articles/2002/sports/march05/26032005/sp826032005.html (1389 words)

	Petit Pays & Les Sans Visas International - Sokous, makossa and Zouk music from Cameroon, Africa
		The numerous albums of Petit Pays are first of all dance music influenced by Makossa, Sokous, the more slow and sensual Zouk and sometimes a little touch of salsa.
		Makossa is the traditional music originating from the Douala region of Cameroon.
		The lyrics are often quite steamy, but that probably doesn't do any damage to his popularity.
	www.crawfurd.dk /africa/petitpays.htm (194 words)

	Makossa -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Makossa is a type of (An artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner) music which is most popular in urban areas in (A republic on the western coast of central Africa; was under French and British control until 1960) Cameroon.
		It is similar to (Click link for more info and facts about soukous) soukous, except it includes strong bass rhythm and a prominent (One of the bony outgrowths on the heads of certain ungulates) horn section.
		Artists such as Eboa Latin, Misse Ngoh and especially (Click link for more info and facts about Manu Dibango) Manu Dibango popularized the style outside of Cameroon in the later 1960s.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/makossa.htm (158 words)

	The Giant Peach - Features: Greg Pnut Galinsky of 1971, Makossa, Junkies Interview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		When he's not formulating clothing lines (Junkies was his former line, 1971 and Makossa his current lines), he's painting window panes and curating art shows.
		I wanted to bring in more personal with lifestyle stuff such as: paintings, galleries, sterling silver rings, co-branded projects, Japanese bicycles that fold with art on them and of course, traditional cut and sew and lots of T-shirts.
		Pnut: "Makossa" is my newest solo project for clothing.
	www.thegiantpeach.com /features/pnut (590 words)

	Disco - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As with all such musical genres, defining a single point of disco's development is difficult, as many elements of disco music appear on earlier records (such as the 1971 theme from the film Shaft by Isaac Hayes) (Jones and Kantonen, 1999).
		In general it can be said that first true disco songs were released in 1973, however, many consider Manu Dibango's 1972 Soul Makossa the first disco record (Jones and Kantonen, 1999).
		Initially, most disco songs catered to a nightclub/dancing audience only, rather than general audiences such as radio listeners, but there are many aspects proving opposite tendencies as well; popular radio-hits were being played in discothèques, as long as they had an easy to follow rhythmic base-pattern close to 120 BPM (beats per minute).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Disco (1768 words)

	CameroonSpotlight2002
		Arranged by Makossa legend Papillon who has a knack for crisp production and hit-minded music, only two singers are shocased on this release, Olivier and Polo, although the compositions again mine the vast treasure trove of historic Bassa music.
		For those of you not familiar with Black Styl's, the group was legendary in the 1970s for its funky Cameroon influenced Makossa with large doses of Soul, Funk and RandB flavor.
		Yet not once did Les Black Styl's loose their roots, they remain one of the classic groups of the golden era of Cameroon Makossa, and the groups musicians, including Yves Lobe, Toto Guillaume, Emile Kangue and Francois Nkotti all became prominent solo artists and legends of the Makossa style of music.
	www.africasounds.com /cameroon_spotlight_2002.htm (3784 words)

	Reggae Makossa - 20 Years Strong
		DJ Carlos Culture, a member of the Reggae Makossa crew, is a native of Colombia SA.
		At times he is the DJ for Tippa Irie when he performs with a sound system in North America.
		Plans for Costa Rica and Panama are already in the works for the Fall of 2003 and 2004.
	www.reggaemakossa.com /carlos.html (329 words)

	The music of Africa - congolose sokous, zouk, makossa, lingala, mbalax, highlife and more
		Jazzy rhythms mixed with Makossa and other African sounds -from the grand old man of Cameroon (born 1933).
		The Cameroonian jazz legend Manu Dibango made a splash on the world charts back in 1973 with a propulsive, saxophone-driven instrumental called "Soul Makossa," which sprinkled bits of American funk and soul into the dance music of West Africa.
		Much of his later work gave playful expression to this fusion of African and Western styles, sometimes with odd but always danceable results--as when he recruited rapper MC Mello and P-Funk bassist Bootsy Collins to add their touches to his swinging sound.
	crawfurd.dk /africa/music.htm (1054 words)

	From Heart To Heart Vol.6 Nov.2002
		Cameroonian musicians are indeed very proud of their Makossa, which is in fact an ingenious mix of three other rhythms in Cameroon : Essèwè, Ambassibey and Assiko.
		There is a plethora of Cameroonian musicians of the new generation who have interpreted the Makossa groove in so many different ways.
		It is a great challenge for the Cameroonian musicians to bring the Makossa magic to the international scene for the bigger public.
	www.sighes.com /Newsletters/from_heart_to_heart_vol17_oct_2003.htm (831 words)

	Makossa Music Video and DVD, African Cameroon Music Video and DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Makossa Music Video and DVD, African Cameroon Music Video and DVD
		African Music Productions presents makossa music videos and dvds, Cameroon music performed by various artisits.
		Order today the spectacular Makossa music from Camerron that is gaining a lot of popularity.
	www.africanmusica.com /makossa (63 words)

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