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
Genre
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Kwaito
The slowed-down South African house music that came out of Soweto between the late 1980s and early 1990s, with loops, deep bass and township slang over the top. The name comes from the slang word kwaai. Brenda Fassie's Memeza is described as pop and kwaito.
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