http://www.metafilter.com/tags/kwaito Posts tagged with 'kwaito' at MetaFilter. Fri, 09 Apr 2004 15:57:33 -0800 Fri, 09 Apr 2004 15:57:33 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/32349/Kwaito <a href="http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/artsmediaculture/pages/music/kwaito.htm">Kwaito: post-apartheid South African music.</a> What does a community of musicians do when the politics they are singing against finally collapse? They strike out in a new direction. Kwaito is a danceable multilingual hip-house, sort of, which has become not one kwaito, but many, during the last ten years or more. A <a href=http://www.rage.co.za/kwaito.html>history</a>. The kwaito <a href=http://www.rage.co.za/issue29/kwaito.htm>story</a>. A kwaito <a href=http://home.worldonline.co.za/~afribeat/beatroutes_kwaitoontheroad.html>tour</a> tale, with more kwaito news in the sidebar. Audio samples <a href=http://www.alphamusik.com/6900818.html>1</a>, <a href=http://www.newworldafrica.co.za/hola.htm>2</a>, <a href=http://www.kwaitomusic.com/albums.htm>3</a> (click on the album covers). Full MP3s: <a href=http://www.samp3.com/mp3/kgb_kwaito_(explicit_lyrics).mp3>Kwaito</a> by KGB. <a href=http://www.samp3.com/mp3/reddangel_fabulous_day(kwaito_mix).mp3>Fabulous Day (Kwaito Mix)</a>, by Redd Angel. A couple more full songs <a href=http://www.musica.co.za/eMusica/news_article.asp?segmentID=99&GenreID=99&ArticleID=742>here</a>. A music video by <a href=http://www.lightyear.com/music/world/africa/bongomaffin/index.htm>Bongo Maffin</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2004:site.32349 Fri, 09 Apr 2004 15:57:33 -0800 bongomaffin kwaito music southafrica Mo Nickels