Types of music in the 20th century

• Afrobeat is a term used to describe the fusion of West African with black American music.
• Apala is a musical genre from Nigeria in the Yoruba tribal style used to wake up the worshippers after fasting during the Muslim holy feast of Ramadan.  Percussion instrumentation includes the rattle (sekere), thumb piano (agidigbo), bell (agogo), and two or three.
• Axe is a popular musical genre from Salvador, Bahia, and Brazil. It fuses the Afro-Caribbean styles of the marcha, reggae, and calypso, and is played by carnival bands
• Jit is a hard and fast percussive Zimbabwean dance music played on drums with guitar accompaniment, influenced by mbira-based guitar styles.
• Jive is a popular form of South African music featuring a lively and uninhibited variation of the jitterbug, a form of swing dance.
• Juju is a popular music style from Nigeria that relies on the traditional Yoruba rhythms, where the instruments are more Western in origin. A drum kit, keyboard, pedal steel guitar, and accordion are used along with the traditional dun-dun (talking drum or squeeze drum).
• Kwassa Kwassa is a dance style begun in Zaire. In the late 1980s, it was popularized by Kanda Bongo Man. In this dance style, the hips move back and forth while the arms follow the hip movements.
• Marabi is a South African three-chord township music of the 1930s-1960s which evolved into African jazz.It makes use of a keyboard style that combines American jazz, ragtime, and blues with African roots. It is characterized by simple chords in varying vamping patterns and repetitive harmony over an        extended period of time to allow the dancers more time on the dance floor. 
• Latin American refers to music originating from Latin America, namely the Romance-speaking countries and territories of the Americas and the Caribbean South of the United States.
• Reggae is a Jamaican musical styles that was strongly influenced by the island’s traditional mento music, as well as by calypso, African music, American jazz, and rhythm and blues. One of reggae’s most distinctive qualities is its offbeat rhythm and staccato chords.
• Salsa music is Cuban, Puerto Rican,and Colombian dance music. It comprises various musical genres including the Cuban son montuno, guaracha, chachacha, mambo, and bolero.
• Samba is a Brazilian musical genre and dance style. Its roots can be traced to Africa via the West African slave trade and African religious traditions particularly in Angola and the Congo. Samba is the basic underlying rhythm that typifies most Brazilian music. It has a lively and rhythmical beat with three steps to every bar, making the samba feel like a timed dance. There is a set of dances – rather than a single dance – that define the samba dancing scene in Brazil. Thus, no dance can be claimed with certainty as the“original” samba style.
• Soca is also known as the “soul of calypso.” It originated as a fusion of calypso with Indian rhythms, thus combining the musical traditions of the two major ethnic groups of Trinidad and Tobago. It is a modern Trinidadian and Tobagonian pop music combining soul and calypso music.
• Were is a Muslim music often performed as a wake-up call for early breakfast and players during Ramadan celebrations. Relying on pre-arranged music, it fuses the African and European music styles.
• Zouk is fast, carnival –like rhythmic music, from the Creole slang word for “party”. It originated in the Carribbean Islands of Guadaloupe and  Martinique and was popularized in the 1980s. It has a pulsating beat supplied by the gwo ka and tambour bele drums, a tibwa rhythmic pattern played on the rim of the snare drums, a rhythm guitar,a horn sections, and keyboard synthesize.