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	Official TSOTSI Film Site
		Kwaito, as a genre of music, started emerging in South Africa in the 1990's as a mixture of a number of different rhythms ranging from the marabi sounds of the 1920's, kwela of the 1950's, mbaqanga / maskhandi of the hostel dwellers to the bubblegum music of the 1980's, and traditional Imibongo (African praise poetry).
		Kwaito is the angry voice of the township, telling about the township, knowing about the township, understanding the township, walking the walk, talking the talk and, of course, wearing the style.
		Kwaito reflects being proud of things township, which is ironic and provocative when one considers that the townships were created by the apartheid Nationalist government as part of their rigid separate development policy.
	www.tsotsi.com /english/index.php?m1=press&m2=kwaito (743 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Kwaito (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Kwaito, as a genre of music, started emerging in South Africa in the 1990's as a mixture of a number of different rhythms ranging from the marabi sounds of the 1920's, kwela of the 1950's, mbaqanga / maskhandi of the hostel dwellers to the bubblegum music of the 1980's, and traditional Imibongo (African praise poetry).
		Kwaito is the angry voice of the township, telling about the township, knowing about the township, understanding the township, walking the walk, talking the talk and, of course, wearing the style.
		Kwaito reflects being proud of things township, which is ironic and provocative when one considers that the townships were created by the apartheid Nationalist government as part of their rigid separate development policy.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Kwaito (1961 words)

	Kwaito: much more than music - SouthAfrica.info
		Mafokate is one of the giants of the industry; he is a hit kwaito artist as well as a producer of newer kwaito bands.
		Whether kwaito is a force for social change or a musical style reflecting the energy of South African youths is up to whom you ask.
		Kwaito was touted as part of a South African renaissance, but it’s also part of a South African revolution - one that does not suffer misinterpretation lightly.
	www.southafrica.info /what_happening/news/features/kwaitomental.htm (1404 words)

	a f r i b e a t
		From hip hop in Dakar to breakbeat in Cairo and Kwaito in Cape Town, Beat_Routes is on the pulse of the African Diaspora's youth.
		Kwaito was borne out of the music of the early nineties that the South African youth were growing up on.
		Kwaito gave birth to the first fl run record companies - such as Kalawa Jazmee which boasts the biggest stable of acts - and hence has been a powerful form of empowerment and ownership of culture after a history of cultural oppression.
	home.worldonline.co.za /~afribeat/beatroutes_kwaito1.html (680 words)

	A tribute to kwaito songbird Lebo Mathosa and homage to the progressive force of South African youth today.
		However for kwaito and RandB phenomenon Lebo Mathosa, who died in a car accident early on Monday morning in Germiston, 1994 was the start of new music revolution in the townships of.
		Kwaito had arrived – and had managed to fuse American and European house with ’s township disco.
		For Lebo Mathosa and her contemporaries it was through kwaito that the young people of a liberated were to govern.
	www.afropop.org /news_flash.php?ID=416 (1246 words)

	South African music after Apartheid: kwaito, the "party politic," and the appropriation of gold as a sign of ...
		Kwaito is the music associated with the fl youth of post-Apartheid South Africa.
		Also, while kwaito is often associated with street culture--i.e., the fl youth who still live in the poverty-stricken ghetto-areas created by pre-1994 racial segregation laws--on the other hand, partly due to the packaging and commodification of the genre, kwaito also represents the emerging fl middle class and elite.
		Although kwaito is a relatively new genre, it has already developed to the point where Impey has said that the word "kwaito" operates more as "an umbrella term for a variety of styles ranging from guz, d'gong, and isgubhu to swaito" (46).
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2822/is_3_28/ai_n15648564 (945 words)

	The Kwaito Generation : Inside Out :: A production of 90.9 WBUR Boston, MA
		The Kwaito Generation : Inside Out :: A production of 90.9 WBUR Boston, MA Kwaito is the sound of the new South Africa -- an urban "mix masala" of South African music genres and Western house music and hip hop.
		Like hip hop in America, kwaito climbed from the cultural basement into the mainstream, affording young fls with financial opportunities their parents could never have dreamt of.
		Today, the pop stars of South Africa are the kwaito stars, influencing the culture, language and economy of the nation in ways that were simply impossible during the traumatic decades of governmentally imposed segregation.
	www.insideout.org /documentaries/kwaito (139 words)

	::KWAITO EXPERIENCE TO ROCK JOBURG:: (Site not responding. Last check: )
		KWAITO lovers will be treated to a sizzling three-hour performance, featuring leading lights of the genre, when the Cell C Sound of the City gets under way.
		This year's concert, dubbed The Kwaito Experience, will feature South Africa's top-selling and award-winning artists including DJ Oskido, Arthur, Thebe, Trompies and Bongo Maffin, who are still rocking the music scene, as well as the new school of big name artists like Zola and Brickz who've changed the face and sound of local music.
		"Kwaito was born on the streets of Johannesburg and it spawned a lifestyle that continues to excite and evolve," adds Davis.
	www.joburg.org.za /2006/aug/aug25_cellcsound.stm (485 words)

	ZA@Play - Music: Kwaito for Krismis 02/12/99
		All this is essentially an act of splitting hairs used to describe sounds that are derivatives of kwaito: the fl urban contemporary dance music, which purports to reflect the experiences of township youth.
		Now, Fassie is not a kwaito artist, but her influence (on and off stage) makes her impossible to ignore.
		The man who Y magazine referred to as kwaito's true disciple put himself in pole position for best newcomer with his highly successful Zola South 9 II 5 released at a time when house music's dominance was at fever pitch.
	www.chico.mweb.co.za /art/music/9912/991202-kwaito.html (963 words)

	MySpace.com - K W A i T O - jnb, ct, dbn, southern african tip - Afro-beat / House - ...
		The music and culture of the township youth of South Africa, kwaito is the voice and language of the ghetto, speaking of the daily experiences and dreams of the first generation to come of age in the post-apartheid period.
		Kwaito, then, is an addition to the library of world dance music; a uniquely South African contribution to global dance culture that is respected precisely because of its distinctive South African qualities: the languid, rolling bass lines and vocal chants that imbue this music with characteristics that are purely South African.
		Kwaito is a wild, eclectic mix-up, a boiling, cooking brew of language and sound that could have happened nowhere but in South Africa.
	profile.myspace.com /index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=95285300 (2654 words)

	The Suburbs Are Killing Us
		Kwaito, a cousin to house music, is the sound of young South Africa
		Because kwaito owes so much to house music, it's not a revelatory or revolutionary form; rather it's a fecund tributary of the longtime genre, an evolution developed by South Africans to express life in their newfound democratic but still-troubled era.
		Mainly, though, kwaito has a good beat and you can always dance to it -- involuntarily or not -- no matter the language you speak.
	www.christopherporter.com /2006/04/zola-ghetto-scandalous-pitch-black.html (720 words)

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