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Music Review of a Non-Western Art Music: Alaine
Alaine is Jamaican but the concert was held in Kenya, an equally negro-dominated country. I would like to emphasize the word “negro” because I want to touch on the cultural aspects of music in black-dominated countries like Jamaica and Kenya. My first impression of Alaine’s music style is rather a combined Afro-Latino music with rich elements of Western music. Most of the songs performed by the artist in the video are accompanied with mid-tempo electronic and uses heavy synthesizers. Although there are instances of fast beat and pop ballade touches, Alaine’s performances were more focused on moves, scaling back the energy, which renders her songs with pleasing lightness that emphasizes Alaine’s vocals and rather unique timbre. If a non-Western music is set by Alaine’s music, it would not mean any difference at all. Her slow-paced songs are much like that of Beyoncé’s “Listen”. Also, Alaine adopts a combination of Reggae and Jamaican dancehall rhythms in some of her songs, which typically draws the difference to Western art music (Hombach 14). In addition, her musical style also hints features of calypso and other African genres, complementing it with offbeat rhythms, allowing staccato chords by synthesizers, drums, and keyboards, which takes several off beats of the measure. Just like in most reggae music, Alaine’s songs are dominated by bass guitar that gives their structure. The thick and heavy sound of the bass guitar allows its lower frequencies to stand out. In terms of arrangement, Alaine’s songs use very simple chord progressions.

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Hombach, Jean-Pierre. Bob Marley the Father of Music. Raleigh: Lulu Publishing, 2010.
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