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
Song
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Pata Pata
The song Miriam Makeba first recorded with the Skylarks in the 1950s and cut again in 1967 for the American market, when it reached number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100. The title means touch touch in Xhosa and named a dance popular in Johannesburg shebeens.
Hear the music for yourself