{
  "name": "Yoruba Music",
  "description": "Music of the Yoruba people of southwestern Nigeria and Benin, comprising a variety of ancient and modern traditions crucial to West African Music.",
  "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/yoruba-music/",
  "parent": "West African Music",
  "level": "sub-3",
  "children_count": 6,
  "children": [
    {
      "name": "Apala",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/apala/",
      "description": "Yoruba Music developed by Muslims during the late 1930s and early 1940s in the Ijebu region of Yorubaland, the current Ogun state.",
      "level": "sub-4",
      "parent": "Yoruba Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Fuji",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/fuji/",
      "description": "Combines the ajisaari/wéré tradition of improvisational music performed during Ramadan with other Islamic styles like Apala and sakara.",
      "level": "sub-4",
      "parent": "Yoruba Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Jùjú",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/juju/",
      "description": "Yoruba Music that emerged during the 1920s in urban settings across Nigeria, especially in Lagos.",
      "level": "sub-4",
      "parent": "Yoruba Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Santería Music",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/santeria-music/",
      "description": "Afro-Cuban genre played in religious rituals, combining traditions from both the Cuban and the Yorùbá people.",
      "level": "sub-4",
      "parent": "Yoruba Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Waka",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/waka/",
      "description": "Islamic Yoruba Music originally rooted in Hausa traditions and adopted by the Yoruba in the early 19th century.",
      "level": "sub-4",
      "parent": "Yoruba Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Yoruba Folk Opera",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/yoruba-folk-opera/",
      "description": "Musical play involving traditional and popular music.",
      "level": "sub-4",
      "parent": "Yoruba Music"
    }
  ]
}