Cape Town Data
The South African Music Graph
See who taught whom, who played what and where, on one map of South African music.
See how South African musicians, songs and places are connected. Every connection below is sourced, and every node leads to what we know about it.
The map grew out of our article An Interactive Network of Cape Jazz Musicians.
The network
2 nodes on the map.
Everyone and everything on the map
Artist
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Kippie Moeketsi
Alto saxophonist, born in 1925, who started on clarinet in a band called the Band in Blue and became the leading saxophone voice of the bebop generation. He called the Jazz Epistles the best band he ever played in. Wikipedia records the epithet South Africa's Charlie Parker without saying who coined it. He died in 1983.
Place
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Langa
The oldest township in the Western Cape, opened in 1927 under the Urban Areas Act of 1923 after black residents were removed from Ndabeni. The name is Xhosa for sun and also recalls Chief Langalibalele. Louis Moholo-Moholo and Brenda Fassie were both born there.
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