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African musical areas

Main article: Music of Africa

Africa can be divided into music areas using several schemes. Geographically, one might distinguish between North Africa, with its Arab and Muslim musical influences, and Sub-Saharan Africa. Sub-Saharan Africa is furthermore frequently divided into regions like West Africa, Southern Africa, East Africa and Central Africa; to some extent, these geographical regions correspond to music areas, however there is much variation within regions and similarities across borders.

Linguistically, African music can be divided along the basis of the lingua franca, the most commonly spoken second language among a group of people who otherwise do not speak the same tongue. The former Portuguese colonies, like Angola and Mozambique, can be grouped together, as can the numerous countries that emerged from French West Africa and other French colonial entities; English-speaking colonies like South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria can also be seen as sharing some characteristics. The other colonizing powers of Africa were Belgium (Congo), Italy (Somalia) and Germany (Botswana), but they left comparatively little musical influence behind.

Certain musical instruments, like the balafon and kora, can also be used to demarcate African music areas.

Music area	Characteristics	Scope
Africa [1]		Algeria - Angola - Benin - Botswana - Burkina Faso - Burundi - Cameroon - Cape Verde - Central African Republic - Chad - Comoros - Dem. Rep. of the Congo - Rep. of the Congo - Côte d'Ivoire - Djibouti - Egypt - Equatorial Guinea - Eritrea - Ethiopia - Gabon - Gambia - Ghana - Guinea - Guinea-Bissau - Kenya - Lesotho - Liberia - Libya - Madagascar - Malawi - Mali - Mauritania - Mauritius - Morocco - Mozambique - Namibia - Niger - Nigeria - Rwanda - São Tomé and Príncipe - Senegal - Seychelles - Sierra Leone - Somalia - South Africa - Sudan - Swaziland - Tanzania - Togo - Tunisia - Uganda - Zambia - Zimbabwe Other areas: Canary Islands - Madeira Islands - Mayotte - Réunion - Saint Helena - Western Sahara
North Africa [2]
East Africa [3]
Southern Africa [4]
West Africa [5]
Central Africa [6]
Lusophone Africa [7]
Francophone Africa [8]
Anglophone Africa [9]
Kora music area [10]
Balafon music area [11]
Music area	Characteristics	Scope

Americas

Music area	Characteristics	Scope
Americas		Anguilla - Antigua and Barbuda - Argentina - Aruba and the Netherlands Antilles - Bahamas - Barbados - Belize - Bermuda - Bolivia - Brazil - Canada - Cayman Islands - Chile - Colombia - Costa Rica - Cuba - Dominica - Dominican Republic - Ecuador - El Salvador - Falkland Islands - French Guiana - Greenland - Grenada - Guatemala - Guyana - Haiti - Honduras - Jamaica - Martinique and Guadeloupe - Mexico - Montserrat - Nicaragua - Panama - Paraguay - Peru - Puerto Rico - Saint Kitts and Nevis - Saint Lucia - Saint-Pierre and Miquelon - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - Suriname - Trinidad and Tobago - Turks and Caicos Islands - United States - Uruguay - Venezuela - Virgin Islands
Afro-American (Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Latin) [12]		African American - Anguilla - Antigua and Barbuda - Argentina - Aruba and the Netherlands Antilles - Bahamas - Barbados - Belize - Bermuda - Bolivia - Brazil - Cayman Islands - Chile - Colombia - Costa Rica - Creole (Louisiana) - Cuba - Dominica - Dominican Republic - Ecuador - El Salvador - French Guiana - Garifuna - Grenada - Guatemala - Guyana - Haiti - Honduras - Jamaica - Latino-United States - Martinique and Guadeloupe - Mexico - Montserrat - Nicaragua - Panama - Paraguay - Peru - Puerto Rico - Saint Kitts and Nevis - Saint Lucia - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - Suriname - Tejano - Trinidad and Tobago - Turks and Caicos Islands - Uruguay - Venezuela - Virgin Islands
Central America [13]		Belize - Costa Rica - El Salvador - Garifuna - Guatemala - Honduras - Nicaragua - Panama
Latin America [14]		Argentina - Bolivia - Brazil - Chile - Colombia - Costa Rica - Creole (Louisiana) - Cuba - Dominican Republic - Ecuador - El Salvador - French Guiana - Garifuna - Guatemala - Haiti - Honduras - Latino-United States - Martinique and Guadeloupe - Mexico - Nicaragua - Panama - Paraguay - Peru - Puerto Rico - Tejano - Uruguay - Venezuela
Lesser Antilles [15]	Folk music: presence of Big Drum dance and music; presence of steelpan, iron bands, tuk, scratch (fungi) bands, brass bands, jing ping and other folk ensembles, either acoustic percussion or string-based; celebrations of Carnival; mostly Anglophone; instrumental focus on drums, percussion and polyrhythms; bawdy, uptempo vocal folk styles, e.g. calypso, bari, benna, tumba; some Indo-Caribbean presence; some European dances remain in evolved form, e.g. quadrilles Popular music: mainstream presence of bouyon, cadence-lypso - calypso, kaseko, chutney, mini-jazz, soca, spouge and zouk; historically influential styles include biguine; influential imported styles include reggae, compas, cadence rampa, jazz, ragga and hip hop	Anguilla - Antigua and Barbuda - Aruba and the Netherlands Antilles - Barbados - Dominica - Grenada - Martinique and Guadeloupe - Montserrat - Saint Kitts and Nevis - Saint Lucia - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - Trinidad and Tobago - Virgin Islands
Marimba music area [16] File:Ym6000a marimba.JPG modern marimba		Belize - Costa Rica - Ecuador - Guatemala - Honduras - Nicaragua - Southern Mexico
Music area	Characteristics	Scope

Asia

Music area	Characteristics	Scope
Central Asia [17]
East Asia [18]
South Asia [19]
Southeast Asia [20]
Music area	Characteristics	Scope

Europe

Music area	Characteristics	Scope
Celtic [21]
Central Europe [22]
Eastern Europe [23]
Finno-Ugric [24]
Germanic [25]
Nordic (Northern Europe) [26]
Southeastern Europe [27]
Music area	Characteristics	Scope

Oceania

Music area	Characteristics	Scope
Melanesia [28]
Micronesia [29]
Polynesia [30]
Music area	Characteristics	Scope

Interregional music areas

Music area	Characteristics	Scope
Arab [31]
Lusophone (Portuguese) [32]
Christianity [33]
Judaism [34]
Islam [35]
Music area	Characteristics	Scope