It utilised African melody and rhythm.

House music is the African form of rave music, African house is based on African traditional melodies.

The spiritual, the earliest music of black Americans, was crossbred from tangy, sinewy African melody and the foursquare hymnody of white Protestant churches.

Torat Emet - Comparing North African melodies (French language site)

When Daulne went away to school, here sister and Daulne started to sing African melodies.

So my sister and I started to sing African melodies, and Zap Mama was born.

While making an album with Maal in Senegal, Emmerson was struck by the similarity between one African melody and a traditional Irish air.

The Morning Post wrote, "He trills, he shakes, he screams, he laughs, as though by the very genius of African melody."

The sound quality of the word Bambuco calls forth in the mind of listeners a certain proximity to African melodies.

Gigi comes from Ethiopia, where funk, African melodies and Arabic inflections added up to music full of unexpected angles and modal curves.