“Kwaito” refers to the musical genre associated with South African black youth in the post‐Apartheid era. ... of dance music, in its most common form kwaito is intentionally apolitical and represents music “after the struggle.” The term “kwaito” also refers to a whole youth culture complete ... vernacular and fashion norms. The “values” of the kwaito generation reflect mainstream consumer capitalism. However, kwaito is infused with, and complicated by, its own ... the adoption of European capitalist values by the kwaito generation does not lend itself to simple analysis. ...
Tópico(s): Music History and Culture
2005 - Taylor & Francis | Popular Music & Society
Kwaito has emerged as one of the most popular music genres in post-apartheid South Africa especially ... struggle. This article offers an alternative reading of kwaito and argues that its political and historical awareness ... styles with contemporary global youth culture fashions, the kwaito artists perform a habitus that imitates while remaining ... largely middle-class critics. The political import of kwaito rests on the disparate sentiments of either attachment ...
Tópico(s): Cultural Industries and Urban Development
2012 - Taylor & Francis | Popular Music & Society
... 10.1080/07491409.2020.1740899Bongani Mbatha, Gabi Mkhize Kwaito’s Busiswa Gqulu, ‘Among men’: Female perspectives on ... https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478007357-004 The Kwaito Feminine, (Jan 2020): 122–154.https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478007357-005 The Black Masculine in Kwaito, (Jan 2020): 155–187.https://doi.org/10. ... 257.https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478007357-009 Kwaito Futures, Remastered Freedoms, (Jan 2020): 224–234.https:// ...
Tópico(s): Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
1985 - University of Chicago Press | Critical Inquiry
... 3-030-79580-1_7Bongani Mbatha, Gabi Mkhize Kwaito's Busiswa Gqulu, 'Among men': Female perspectives on ... https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478007357-004 The Kwaito Feminine, (Jan 2020): 122–154.https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478007357-005 The Black Masculine in Kwaito, (Jan 2020): 155–187.https://doi.org/10. ... 257.https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478007357-009 Kwaito Futures, Remastered Freedoms, (Jan 2020): 224–234.https:// ...
Tópico(s): Legal Issues in South Africa
1993 - University of Chicago Press | Signs
... other black performance genres, most notably South African Kwaito. Through research methods including interviews and participant observation, a comparative perspective on Dancehall and Kwaito reveals unexplored parallels, particularly ideological and spatial ones. ... performance geographies, in this instance using Dancehall and Kwaito as its main cases.
Tópico(s): Music History and Culture
2009 - Routledge | Cultural Studies
In the standard narrative, kwaito is described as a form of electronic dance music that emerged alongside the democratization of South Africa between Nelson Mandela’ ... 1994. In most cases, scholars have claimed that kwaito emerged as a direct response to the end ...
Tópico(s): Asian Culture and Media Studies
2008 - International Library of African Music | African Music Journal of the International Library of African Music
... This Profile discusses the portrayal of women through Kwaito music and their frequent pornographic objectification in the ... genre. It considers the apparent shift away of Kwaito from its roots in the moment of popular ...
Tópico(s): Gender, Feminism, and Media
2012 - Taylor & Francis | Agenda
... essay explores the concept of the authenticity of kwaito and traces the origin and the development of ... post-apartheid era. Special attention is given to kwaito solo artists Arthur, Zola and the group Bongomaffin, ... the pre-1998 and post-1998 styles of kwaito.
Tópico(s): Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
2004 - Routledge | Journal of Musical Arts in Africa
... the research and the questions being asked. 4 Kwaito music emerged in Johannesburg in the 1990s and ... this genre) or glocal form of rap music, kwaito music has come to be synonymous with post- ...
Tópico(s): Critical Race Theory in Education
2009 - Taylor & Francis | Social & Cultural Geography
(2017). Kwaito’s Promise: Music and the Aesthetics of Freedom in South Africa. Muziki: Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. ...
Tópico(s): South African History and Culture
2017 - Routledge | Muziki
This essay compares kwaito's development with the development of other inter-racial music styles, including jazz, ragtime, rock 'n' roll, disco and hip-hop. It poses the question: 'Will kwaito overcome racial barriers in the same way that ...
Tópico(s): Diverse Music Education Insights
2006 - Routledge | Journal of Musical Arts in Africa
Kwaito--the most important music genre and cultural innovation to emerge in postapartheid Africa--is often described ... explicitly apolitical. Essentially a type of dance music, kwaito in its most common form is music after the struggle. Most kwaito songs are composed of slowed-down House tracks ... primarily by black Africans, the poststruggle aesthetic of kwaito usually manifests itself in alcohol-or zol (marijuana)- ... as bashes. In a recent article, I explored kwaito's character in some detail (Steingo 2005). However, ...
Tópico(s): Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
2016 - University of Illinois Press | Black Music Research Journal
Tópico(s): Gender Roles and Identity Studies
2003 - Routledge | African Identities
... in Kingston's Dancehall and South Africa's Kwaito that occupies this paper.
Tópico(s): South Asian Cinema and Culture
2008 - SAGE Publishing | Space and Culture
For the purposes of accountability and uniformity, and as a way of giving insight into their intellectual capital regarding development practices, NGOs in Southern Africa are required by donor agencies to describe their intended activities in very clear, unambiguous terms. These requirements may include the expression of theoretical approaches, the development of logical frameworks, clear objectives, indicators for success, criteria for sustainable development, and relationships to government policies. ...
Tópico(s): Community Health and Development
2008 - Taylor & Francis | Development in Practice
... and the impact of art forms such as kwaito), socio-political (in terms of the circulation of ...
Tópico(s): African history and culture studies
2007 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of African Cultural Studies
... detailed analysis, see Bangeni and Kapp (2005). 12 Kwaito is a local music form which Nuttall (2004: ...
Tópico(s): EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
2011 - Taylor & Francis | Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies
... musical styles, such as American blues, South African kwaito, and Latin American reggaeton. She shows that dancehall ...
Tópico(s): Cuban History and Society
2011 - Association of College and Research Libraries | Choice Reviews Online
... popular radio program broadcast in Soweto; the late kwaito star Lebo Mathosa; and ethnographic observation in the ...
Tópico(s): Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
2012 - Duke University Press | GLQ A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies
... popular in South Africa by the Hunger Boyz kwaito song titled “Fong Kong,” which was a direct ...
Tópico(s): International Development and Aid
2012 - UCLA James S. Coleman African Studies Center | African Arts
Tópico(s): South African History and Culture
2004 - Taylor & Francis | Social Dynamics
... gov.za/reports/2003/census01brief.pdf. S. Stephens, ‘Kwaito’, in C.‐A. Michael and S. Nuttall (eds), ...
Tópico(s): South African History and Culture
2004 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Southern African Studies
... the Union Buildings to gyrate to the latest kwaito--the distinctive, hybridized music of South African townships-- ...
Tópico(s): Narrative Theory and Analysis
2000 - Johns Hopkins University Press | Modern fiction studies
Tópico(s): Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
2001 - Taylor & Francis | Agenda
Martinette Kruger, Melville Saayman,
... festival aimed at the House, Hip Hop and Kwaito music festival market in South Africa, based on ...
Tópico(s): Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification
2018 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Convention & Event Tourism
Ian-Malcolm Rijsdijk, Adam Haupt,
... comprising both pre-recorded popular music (mainly the kwaito of Zola) and more conventional orchestral and choral ...
Tópico(s): Music History and Culture
2007 - Routledge | Journal of Musical Arts in Africa
... South African popular culture through the lens of kwaito music in order to dissect how, years after ...
Tópico(s): Diverse Musicological Studies
2014 - University of Illinois Press | Black Music Research Journal
Abstract Kwaito can be described as the new music of the new South Africa. Since its emergence over a decade ago, kwaito still blasts from minibus taxis, on the new ... on street corners from Cape Town to Johannesburg. Kwaito is young, vibrant and decidedly black. This is ... racialised terrain. This article describes the emergence of kwaito, and explores community radio station, Bush Radio's, broadcasts of kwaito music, looking at how these broadcasts create a sense of community. First, kwaito's emergence within the context of South Africa' ...
Tópico(s): Multilingual Education and Policy
2006 - Routledge | Communicatio
... of black commercialized forms such as rap and kwaito music. A critical questioning of the interpretative stances ...
Tópico(s): Musicology and Musical Analysis
2004 - Taylor & Francis | Scrutiny2
... the taunts of local residents, with booming township kwaito music dominating the soundtrack. The last image of ...
Tópico(s): African studies and sociopolitical issues
2007 - Oxford University Press | Screen