South Africa Music - MBAQANGA Jive 1960-80s Vol.1🎶🎶

In the 1950s old strains of marabi and kwela began to coalesce into mbaqanga, the mode of African-inflected jazz that had many and various practitioners, with a large number of bands competing for attention and income. Sometimes called “township jive” , mbaqanga is a South African dance music which evolved in the townships and became broadly popular in the 1960s and '70s. It usually includes guitars and bass, often brass, atop cascading rhythms.

Vocal groups such the Manhattan Brothers, the Skylarks, and Malathini & the Mahotella Queens popularized their vocal version of the mbaqanga sound. By the middle of the 1950s, the various strains of South African music were pouring themselves into an exciting melting pot of ideas and forms, propelled in part by the hunger of the vast urban proletariat for entertainment. with traditional dance styles such as the Zulu indlamu, with a heavy dollop of American big band swing thrown on top. The indlamu tendency crystallised into the "African stomp" style, giving a notably African rhythmic impulse to the music and making it quite irresistible to its new audiences.

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