Agawu and Waterman

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Agawu and Waterman both discuss the state of African music as it is viewed outside of the continent. They come to the conclusion that African music has been pin-holed into becoming a generalized genre that reflects how it is portrayed in film/ musics in western countries. Agawu is more concerned with the aspect of crossover and how the vast variety of music throughout the continent, each with its own cultural and historical significance for the hundreds of African ethnic groups is deduced to one or two generalized styles that are perceived, in the west, as African. This deduction has resulted in stereotyping African music as being some form of a rhythmic, tribal-like, tune. Waterman delves into the influence of African musics on American music by way of black Americans. He discusses notions of African-esque musics as being ideally rhythmic in character. Agawu makes the statement that not enough African ethnomusicologist are presenting African music in a way that combat's this phenomenon in the west. Is this really the responsibility of African ethnographers? Aren't Western ethnographers knowledgeable enough to combat the in authenticity of African music in the West?