Two weeks into his new job, Mokgethwa Mapaya screwed up. It was 2009, and he was working in IT at Liberty Life, a financial company based in Johannesburg. While using their systems, he accidentally ...

A distinct sound is currently vibing on social feeds around the world: the deep house, log-drum driven basslines and soulful piano melodies of “Amapiano.” While Amapiano dance challenges are currently ...

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Gwen Ansell leads the research team at IKS Cultural Consulting which conducted the survey. Her contract work there on this project was funded by Concerts SA Musicians worldwide have been placing their ...

In much of the world, house music has already had its day — but in South Africa, it is pop music. Here's why this musical genre has remained king. If you travel to South Africa, you will hear house ...

The country has a rich, original relationship to jazz, with American techniques layered into regional traditions and rhythms. Explore 50 years of recordings picked by musicians, poets and writers. By ...

Through the University of Fort Hare, Akhona Ndzuta receives funding from the NRF. Apart from the song’s omnipresence on the sound systems of a cross-section of socio-economic neighbourhoods across ...

It may have started in “The Warehouse” club, Chicago, but the center of the house music world has relocated. But not to Ibiza. Miami? Not even close. Today the biggest house market per capita anywhere ...

This piece originally appeared as part of Rolling Stone’s annual Hot List, in the July-August issue of the magazine. At Afropunk’s 2019 New Year’s Eve festival in South Africa, DJ Moma was scheduled ...

Two weeks into his new job, Mokgethwa Mapaya screwed up. It was 2009, and he was working in IT at Liberty Life, a financial company based in Johannesburg. While using their systems, he accidentally ...