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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Sharpeville massacre
The killings of March 1960 that set off the repression which closed South Africa's mixed jazz clubs and pushed a generation of musicians abroad. Mason writes that the apartheid state attacked jazz relentlessly in the repression that followed.
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