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The sprawling global landscape of Afrobeat has grown far beyond its foundational roots to encompass an enormous range of creative expressions, each shaped by the local cultural contexts of the artists who reimagine the genre’s core tenets for new audiences. The "Other" subcategory that anchors this work within that broader Afrobeat umbrella exists specifically to hold sound that defies the more rigid, widely recognized frameworks of the genre, capturing work that weaves together unanticipated influences, draws from underrepresented regional musical traditions, and refuses to be boxed into the dominant narratives that shape mainstream understandings of what Afrobeat can be.
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