South African Jazz

The story of South African jazz is inextricably linked with the growth of the townships in the 1950s and with the story of apartheid. After World War II, the South African economy expanded rapidly, and people from rural areas flooded into the townships. Rejecting tribalism and traditionalism, the new urban population aspired to an African-American lifestyle. Homegrown jazz flourished in the black urban ghettos, and artists such as Abdullah Ibrahim , Kippie Moeketsi, Hugh...