In the mid-20th century, African musicians took up Cuban Music as their own and claimed it as a marker of Black Atlantic connections and of cosmopolitanism untethered from European colonial relations.
World Music and the Black.
Today, Cuban/African bands popular in Africa in the 1960s and \'70s have moved into the World Music scene in Europe and North America, and World Music producers and musicians have created new West African-Latin American collaborations expressly for this market niche.
In the mid-20th century, African musicians took up Cuban Music as their own and claimed it as a marker of Black Atlantic connections and of cosmopolitanism untethered from European colonial relations