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Southern African Music

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The music of the countries around South Africa: Zimbabwe's guitar-driven sungura and mbira-based chimurenga, Zambia's kalindula, Mozambique's marrabenta and Chopi timbila orchestras, Lesotho's accordion famo and Angola's semba.

Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Lesotho and Angola · emerged Ancient times · peak 1980s-1990s

Also called: music of southern africa

History

Xylophone orchestras and thumb-piano traditions of the region met Congolese rumba, South African township jive and Portuguese folk in the twentieth century, producing national popular styles as each country reached independence.

What it sounds like

Mbira and timbila traditions
Fast guitar picking in the popular styles
Accordion and concertina in the mine-labour musics
Dance music tied to independence

Beneath it: famo, kalindula, marrabenta, semba, sungura, timbila

Beside it: south african music