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
Event
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King Kong
The all-African jazz opera that opened in Johannesburg in 1959, written by Todd Matshikiza with Harry Bloom and Pat Williams. Miriam Makeba took the female lead and Hugh Masekela played in the orchestra, and the European tour that followed carried several of the musicians out of the country for good.
Hear the music for yourself