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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Soweto uprising
The student protest of 16 June 1976 against being taught in Afrikaans, and the police shooting that followed. It is the event behind Hugh Masekela's "Soweto Blues", and Abdullah Ibrahim declared his support for the ANC openly after it.
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