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South African Kwaito Dancing at 3am

2008-10-13 07:12:32 by Liz in My Poproks
 
...kwaito videos at 3am. I like, and have ended at this video of kwaito dancing from an HIV awareness event. It reminds me of some of the dancing in the Buraka Som Sistema Sound of Kuduro video (still my #1 Everything/Anything of 2008 Wiki: Kwaito is a music genre that emerged in Johannesburg, South Africa in the early 1990s. It is based on...
 
Tags: kwaito, percussive african samples, video, hiv awareness event, kuduro video, house music beats, slower tempo, 3am, france youtube
 
 
 
 
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Music Documentaries, Comin' Up

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2008-11-21 20:37:40 by Li Robbins in Radio 2 Blog
...Kwaito Generation --here's a little b.g. on kwaito music, and the culture it comes out of As a young democracy with an overwhelmingly young population, it seems inevitable that South Africa would develop a new form of music for those who came of age after apartheid -- and that music is kwaito, a homegrown electronic "mix masala" of South...
 
Tags: documentaries, music documentaries, music, dub music, dub, kwaito music, kwaito, contemporary dance music, sunday november
 
 
 
 
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Music Documentaries, Comin' Up

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2008-11-21 20:37:40 by Li Robbins in Radio 2 Blog
...Kwaito Generation --here's a little b.g. on kwaito music, and the culture it comes out of:As a young democracy with an overwhelmingly young population, it seems inevitable that South Africa would develop a new form of music for those who came of age after apartheid -- and that music is kwaito, a homegrown electronic "mix masala" of South...
 
Tags: documentaries, music documentaries, music, dub music, dub, kwaito music, kwaito, contemporary dance music, sunday november
 
 
 
 
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linkthink #492356: Semper Fideles

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2008-02-20 04:25:59 by wayneandwax in wayneandwax.com
...kwaito: from the party politic to party politics. - Free Online Library (Black Music Research Journal heady but informative article about kwaito tags: kwaito southafrica academic essay politics music hip-hop theory cultstuds anthropology M U S I C A L L Y M A D forthcoming documentary on reggae soundsystems in the UK (via uncarved tags:...
 
Tags: tags, nature, youtube, conga, conga santiaguera, tecktonik, tecktonik dance, out-there lift08 presentation, free online library
 
 
 
 
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Globalistas Pistas

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2008-04-03 20:58:14 by wayneandwax in wayneandwax.com
...kwaito with interest but I couldnt stop thinking about the distorsion between our conception of african music and the music africans are listening to. I mean, is Fader really setting a trend on 2 genres that seems to be stuck in a dead end ? Is kwaito and hiplife are just still living in our western imaginary and romantism ? What if african...
 
Tags: hip-hop, global hip-hop, global, dinner music, music, global ghettopop, african rap scenes, scenes, rock music
 
 
 
 
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Globalistas e Baptistas

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2008-01-05 15:45:26 by wayneandwax in wayneandwax.com
...kwaito, etc. genres identified with the ghettos of the former colonies as well as with the ghettos of todays post-colonial metropoles. I want to stress that I use the term somewhat critically I dont mean simply to celebrate this kind of engagement. One thing I find really problematic about it, for example, is the flavor-of-the-month approach...
 
Tags: global, global ghetto music, mix genres global, genres, global ghettotech umbrella, music, booty music, produce music, garimpagens music
 
 
 
 
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linkthink #739053: Hyphy Wifey Harvest

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2008-02-22 03:43:07 by wayneandwax in wayneandwax.com
...kwaito side of things tags: hip-hop global kwaito southafrica africa blogpost videos interview worldup: African Hip Hop Vol 3 (Algeria post on algerian hip-hop (in some cases via france), w/ some nice videos tags: hip-hop blogpost algeria france videos youtube global Daily Kos: I Refuse to Buy into the Obama Hype (now a supporter finally, a...
 
Tags: tags, hyphy, middle eastern, hip-hop revolution, middle eastern influences, hip-hop, obama, algerian hip-hop, hilarious video
 
 
 
 
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Not Too Sha3bi?

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2008-06-27 03:44:19 by wayneandwax in wayneandwax.com
 
...kwaito, coupe decale are marked, implicitly or explicitly, as black. Theyre either Afrodiasporic (New World innit) or straight-up African (of course, extricating the two is downright impossible at this point see, e.g., kwaito). And this is something I was trying to get at with my coinage of global ghettotech i.e., that race as much as class...
 
Tags: remix, world blackness, world, mulid remix scene, music, music journals, world innit, popdance music, world music
 
 
 
 
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PeanutButter & YouTube

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2008-11-02 01:05:41 by wayneandwax in wayneandwax.com
...Kwaito, hip-hop and breakbeat offer rich possibilities for the track and mutants of the 21st century. And because everything on the planet tag of the Internet and digital facility, so that many people still find it right now has a name: Global Guetto Techno. Who invented the term was Wayne & Wax, in an attempt to explain the aesthetics of a...
 
Tags: media, viral media, spreadable media, media producers, develop spreadable media, term, term viability, viral, spread political messages
 
 
 
 
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Top Ten of 2007: The specialty show DJs

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2007-12-20 16:34:27 by Jim, KEXP in KEXP Blog
...Kwaito, Bhangra and Bollywood from Bombay and London, Malabax from Senegal, and Ragga Dub from Brixton and Tokyo. Heres a selection of Dareks 2007 favorites 1. Bole2 Harlem - Bole2 Harlem, Vol. 1 ( Sounds of the Mushroom 2. M.I.A. - Kala ( Interscope 3. Various Artists - Nuit Tsigane ( Silverwave Records 4. Manu Chao - La Radiolina (...
 
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