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The UWC scholar Valmont Layne places the goema beat at the heart of Cape Town's music, jazz included.
Cape jazz emerged in Cape Town from the late 1950s. Valmont Layne of the University of the Western Cape, who wrote his doctorate on goema, describes it as the rhythmic essence of collective life among the poor and traces its links to Cape jazz.
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