Langarm

Genre Cape Town connection

The dance band music of coloured Cape Town, built on waltzes, foxtrots and South African steps such as vastrap and ticky-draai. Mason's point about "Mannenberg" is that its saxophone sound is langarm, which is a large part of why Cape Town listeners recognised themselves in it.

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is related to

Cape jazz the saxophone sound comes from the dance bands
Goema the goema beat is very close to the vastrap of langarm

is in

Cape Town the dance band music of coloured Cape Town

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