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
Place
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Soweto
The cluster of townships south west of Johannesburg, built from the 1930s under the Urban Areas Act, whose acronym was adopted in 1963. Jonas Gwangwa was born in Orlando East, Brenda Fassie moved there at sixteen, the 1976 uprising happened there, and kwaito came out of it in the 1990s.
Hear the music for yourself