Kwaito's Promise: Music and the Aesthetics of Freedom in South Africa by Gavin Steingo
Kwaito's Promise: Music and the Aesthetics of Freedom in South Africa

Gavin Steingo

Kwaito's Promise: Music and the Aesthetics of Freedom in South Africa

Gavin Steingo

320 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

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In mid-1990s South Africa, apartheid ended, Nelson Mandela was elected president, and the country’s urban black youth developed kwaito—a form of electronic music (redolent of North American house) that came to represent the post-struggle generatio...

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