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#jazz in #Cape_Town
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In Cape Town jazz here is not just jazz. It’s a whole lot more. For one, it is a dance style that continues to be the predominant feature of successive generations of #Cape_Flats families. Almost similar to what is called salsa in the Latino communities, jazzing on the Cape Flats is now somewhat of a tradition. And I use tradition in a deliberate way, to think about inheritances of practices that are shared, dynamic and made and remade anew, but always defined also by what is continued as it is passed down.

#MUSIC #Abdullah_Ibrahim #Basil_Coetzee #Goema #Hugh_Masekela #Jazz_Epistles #Manenberg #Manhattan_Brothers #Marabi #Miriam_Makeba #Robbie_Jansen

#Cape_Town hip-hop just got interesting again
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It has often been said in hip-hop circles in Cape Town that the wildly successful #Die_Antwoord owe a lot of their success to the Cape Flats rappers that they hung out with just before dropping their breakout album $O$. #Isaac_Mutant was featured on that album, and he is often credited with being the […]

#MUSIC #Dookoom #kak_stirvy #South_Africa