Saturday, July 30, 2005

Kwaito (South African Hip Hop)

I just heard this program on NPR's "Inside Out" documentary show about the birth of a new genre of urban music from the ghettos of South Africa, called Kwaito.

It started in the early 1990's just after the end of Apartheid.

cool.

http://www.insideout.org/documentaries/kwaito/default.asp

1 Comments:

Blogger bostongraf said...

Dude, I heard an NPR report on an artist called Pitch Black Afro:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4759673

Check it, bleed...

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