Zahara, a singer from South Africa who found great success with multiple platinum-selling albums and a slew of awards throughout her career, has passed away. She was 36. The sad news was confirmed by ...

In an excerpt from the 33 ⅓ title "South African Popular Music," the author breaks down house music offshoots gqom and amapiano. When Beyoncé put together her companion soundtrack album, “The Lion ...

2023 has been another exceptional year for African music – besides catering to pan-African dancefloors and listeners who stream from home, engaging with contemporary African music is trendy and cool.

Infectious, contagious, catchy. It should be no surprise that amapiano, the South African offshoot of house music that rose to international prominence during the pandemic, is frequently described in ...

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 ...

Missouri State University's Chorale welcomes the Tuks Camerata, a top choir from South Africa, to Springfield this week for a ...

One thing we can all agree on is that South African music has cemented itself in the hearts of local and international music enthusiasts. In a recent episode of the popular “Jibber with Jaber” podcast ...

Multi-award winning dance music DJ Bongz, affectionately known as Mr Gwara Gwara, is taking his signature South African sound ...

Creating connections. South African music : The lion sleeps tonight ; Twentieth-century political history ; Twentieth-century entertainment history : live and mediated ; Graceland (1986) : world music ...

As Uncle Waffles’ fame and acclaim as a show-stopping DJ rose steadily at the start of the year, the next natural transition for her was to start releasing her own music. Many were sceptical when she ...

In Lesotho, a style of traditional accordion music called Famo has become entangled with deadly gang rivalries. Once the ...