How did white people forget about polyrhythms?? I'm so ashamed of our current music culture. I listen to a lot of heavy prog, and almost every one of them uses polyrhythms. Where have they gone???
Also classical music does have polyrhythms, Chopin especially, in his Nocturnes you could hear 19/8 or even more complex rhythms, and that polyrhythm in his 4th Ballade is really beautiful especially. Even older classical music has hemiolas, 3/2 polyrhythms, and tons of impressionist composers used them. However, folk music between Europe/America and Africa was much different. Polyrhythms are of course still used by some modern bands too, but it's rarer to find. Especially modern pop, mostly uses 4/4 and standard rhythms. I'd argue the rarest thing to find is microtonalism and macrotonalism, non-12TET tuning systems it is also prevalent and many African cultures and various indigenous cultures. There could be more people pushing the boundaries with use of non-12TET tuning systems, and polychromaticism, and integrating more polyrhythms in their music.
@@sepulcher8263 ?? The music and dance that they are "TYRING" to portray is called Atsiagbekor. And it is 100% inaccurate. The support parts arent even right- no Kloboto or Totodzi - kidi pattern is also wrong. Atsimevu playing is sub=par to say the least- dancer is lame too....Any other questions?
