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
1 node on the map.
Everyone and everything on the map
Era
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apartheid era
The years when the state sorted people by race and the music had to work around it: District Six declared white in 1966, the Cape Flats townships built to receive the people removed, mixed bands made illegal in 1963, and jazz driven out of the clubs after Sharpeville.
Hear the music for yourself