
	Where results make sense

Topic: Kwela

Related Topics

Marabi

Mbaqanga

Folk music

Music of South Africa

Abdullah Ibrahim

Zydeco

Hugh Masekela

Music

Ahmed Kathrada

Zipang

Neal Smith

Pretoria

Hot Five

Zulu

Johannesburg

In the News (Mon 6 Jul 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	Kwelafilms \| PHE ZULU AFRIKA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		KWELA trainees will be mentored and allowed to slowly contribute or debate the choices made by the heads of department so as to get insight in the creative process of each department and eventually they will be allowed actual "hands-on" experience.
		KWELA wants to empower people who have the commitment / passion and vision but who don't necessarily have the knowledge or financial resources to realize their dreams or to play any role in the filmmaking process.
		KWELA and The Cape Film Commission extend their gratitude to the film industry's private sector sponsors for their support and generosity in transforming the Western Cape's film industry.
	www.kwelafilms.co.za (329 words)

	Kwela - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kwela is a happy, often pennywhistle based, street music from southern Africa with jazzy underpinnings.
		The popularity of the pennywhistle may have been based on the fact that flutes of different kinds have long been traditional instruments among the peoples of the more northerly parts of South Africa, and the pennywhistle thus enabled the swift adaptation of folk tunes into the new marabi-influenced music.
		Artists such as Lemmy Mabaso were renowned for their pennywhistle skills, and Spokes Mashiyane was one of the most prominent with his kwela pennywhistle tunes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kwela (281 words)

	Kwela Lodge, Pietermaritzburg
		Kwela Lodge is privately owned and managed by René and Birgit Oegger (Swiss and German).
		History: The original farmhouse was built in 1841 and belonged to P.A.R. (Pieter Albertus Rhyno) Otto, one of the first settlers to the valley.
		Kwela Lodge is the ideal getaway for the holiday maker or business traveller, nature lover and bird watcher - anyone wanting to relax and seeking tranquility, peace and security in country surrounding for a weekend or longer stay.
	www.kwelalodge.com (366 words)

	Allen Kwela - Biography - AOL Music
		Together with Spokes Mashiyane, Allen Kwela, who was considered to be one of South Africa's most outstanding guitarists, helped bring kwela music, an indigenous South African style created from jazz and pennywhistle sounds, into focus.
		His move to Johannesburg, a melting pot of different musical styles, at the end of the '50s was a groundbreaking step in the history of South African music: here he met Spokes Mashiyane, a virtuoso of the flute and the tin whistle.
		Unfortunately, Kwela remained permanently in the shadow of his collaborator, who was mainly credited with the breakthrough of kwela in the late '50s.
	music.aol.com /artist/allen-kwela/527176/biography (374 words)

	Kwela (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Eight years later, Kwela has achieved this goal to an amazing extent: more than 140 titles have been published, including various prize-winning novels, unusual memoirs and biographies and non-fiction exploring relatively unknown aspects of South African culture and history.
		Kwela has also become the local publisher of choice of some other prominent writers: Antjie Krog, Arthur Maimane, Ellen K Kuzwayo, Fatima Meer, Ingrid de Kok, James Matthews, Jeanne Goosen, Keorapetse 'Willie' Kgositsile, Mike Nicol, Nuruddin Farah and Zoë Wicomb.
		Kwela therefore currently focus on three areas: literary fiction, memoirs and nonfiction with a social or cultural slant.
	www.nb.co.za /Kwela/kArticleDisplay.asp?iCategory_id=36 (708 words)

	Scientific African - A Presentation of Kwela Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Donald Kachamba, born in Blantyre, in 1953, is considered one of the outstanding musician-composers of the middle generation in south-eastern Africa.
		Kwela a verb meaning "to climb up", "to rise", "mount" in several southern African Bantu languages became a code-word for a jazzrelated form of music which emerged in southern Africa during the 1950s.
		Kwela was inspired by contemporary American jazz forms of the Swing period in Jazz history.
	www.scientific-african.org /archives/kachamba/info8/info_view (699 words)

	Afropop Worldwide
		Kwela comes from the Xhosa and Zulu word "khwela," meaning "climb on," a term used to get performers involved in a show; also widely used by police to get them onto police vehicles.
		The kwela music which developed during the '40s and '50s almost always featured the pennywhistle, a cheap and reliable (tin flute) instrument which served as the lead voice.
		The harmonies of the kwela are simple and cyclical in nature, usually C-F-C-G7; the music combines a rapid ostinato foundation with elements of Afro-American jazz swing forms.
	www.afropop.org /explore/style_info/ID/75/Kwela (152 words)

	ZA@Play
		llen Kwela, one of South Africa’s finest and most influential jazz guitarists, died on Monday June 30 at the age of 63 of an asthma attack.
		Kwela was born in Chesterville, Durban, and grew up on the South Coast of KwaZulu-Natal.
		Kwela said about the album: “The title comes from the way fls were treated in the apartheid era.
	www.chico.mweb.co.za /art/2003/2003jul/030710-kwela.html (508 words)

	SOUTH AFRICAN MUSIC
		ALLEN Kwela was born on the 11th of September 1939 in Chesterville, Durban and grew up on the South Coast where he also attended school.
		It was here that Allen Kwela found a home for the emerging sound that was to become known as Kwela music, a strange twist of fate bearing in mind the name of the composer.
		Allen found that his natural inclination was for jazz and moved away from Kwela to carve out his own niche as one of South Africa’s finest indigenous rhythms and jazz which he plays to incorporate a wider range of listeners and broaden the appeal of his music.
	www.music.org.za /artist.asp?id=127 (456 words)

	Kwela - SouthAfrica.info
		One of the offshoots of the marabi sound was kwela, which brought South African music to international prominence in the 1950s.
		The primary instrument of kwela, in the beginning, was the pennywhistle, a cheap and simple instrument which was taken up by street performers in the shanty towns.
		The term "kwela" is derived from the Zulu for "get up", though in township slang it also referred to the police vans, the "kwela-kwela".
	www.southafrica.info /ess_info/sa_glance/culture/922564.htm (247 words)

	Living Images: The politics of culture - NI 98 - King Kong, kwela, and the shebeen queens
		It came at last, with the Matshikiza sound of the kwela* as Miriam swung into her dance, the song, and turned slowly to face her audience, who rocked and swayed with her.
		The new 'swing' from the earlier industrial era, the kwela and pata-pata* of Sophiatown: all this was highly political.
		Kwela - rhythmic joyful tunes with a compelling beat that demand you to dance, kwela* was invented by the fl street urchins who played it on penny whistles.
	www.newint.org /issue098/kwela.htm (2196 words)

	african vocal music quiz
		An importart stage was Kwela Khwela (Zulu language), it means: to climb, ascend, mount.
		Zimbabwe was one of the causes why Kwela has a characteristic distribution area which is delineated by the combined borders of
		(Kwela, "climb up", takes its name from the term many of these youngsters heard shouted at them by police officers herding them into paddywagons).
	www.kuveni.de /vox.htm (537 words)

	Tin whistle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kwela is a genre of music created in South Africa in the 1950s, and characterised by an upbeat, jazzy tin whistle lead.
		Kwela was mostly superseded in South Africa by the mbaqanga genre in the late fifties, and with it the saxophone largely supplanted the tin whistle as the lead instrument for music from the townships.
		Kwela musical scores are rarely published and many of the recordings of founding kwela artists are out of print and hard to find.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tin_whistle (3614 words)

	kwela
		Secondly, it was used in the slang word kwela-kwela (police van), which is to be heard in the spoken introduction to the 1956 recording 'Tom Hark', by Elias Lerole and his Zig-Zag Flutes; it may have been due to the popularity of this record that the term became widely associated with the music.
		Thirdly, among speakers of Nguni languages, the use of the word kwela was prob.
		A rhythmical, repetitive popular music style in which the lead part is almost invariably played on the penny-whistle, and which developed out of marabi (sense 3), tsaba-tsaba (sense a), and traditional southern African music; also called pata-pata (sense 2).
	www.ru.ac.za /affiliates/dsae/KWELA.HTML (737 words)

	BBC - Radio 3 World on Your Street - Musicians' Stories: Dave Woodhead(1)
		Listen (3'12) to ‘Lemmy Be the One’, performed by Dave Woodhead and The Positively Testcard in session for the Andy Kershaw programme on BBC Radio 3, with Dave on penny-whistle, Adam Keelan on guitar, Chris Morgan on string bass and Mario Rey on drums.
		Kwela is South African penny whistle jive music.
		One of my passions is trying to unearth old 78’s of Kwela and over the years I’ve managed to find a few.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio3/world/onyourstreet/msdave1.shtml (535 words)

	Learning to Whistle: WWW: Remembering a Kwela Master
		Kwela is a genre of music created in South Africa in the 1950s, and characterized by an upbeat, jazzy pennywhistle lead.
		The name is a Zulu word for "get up," and the police vans which patrolled South African townships during the Apartheid era were slangily known as "kwela kwela vans." It seems that folks who ran illegal gambling games on the streets of the townships sometimes used kwela bands as cover or as lookouts:
		The kwela scene in South Africa essentially died when Spokes Mashiyane, one of its chief exponents, took up the saxophone.
	learningtowhistle.blogspot.com /2005/12/www-remembering-kwela-master.html (724 words)

	:: SOUNDS OF KWELA REVERBERATE AT THE MARKET THEATRE :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The three-man play combines elements of storytelling, humour, music and dance as it constantly shifts between the past and the present to recount, in sentimental fashion, the vibrant culture of the period.
		His memories are brought to life on stage, with the three actors miming the originals and putting on dance routines reminiscent of the period.
		On one hand, it sets out to retrieve the impact of Kwela music for audiences in the present; on the other, it protests against the exploitation and neglect suffered by local musicians.
	www.joburg.org.za /nov_2002/nov8_diphala.stm (566 words)

	Welcome to African Kwela (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Situated in the leafy suburb of Suiderhof, African Kwela is ideally situated and in close proximity to Eros Airport and the city center.
		African Kwela is situated at 18 Palm Street, we offer 6 comfortable rooms in a pleasant tranquil environment, all en-suite with air-conditioners, 3 channel DSTV, fridges and kettles.
		There is a spacious lapa where meals are served and a cosey bar for resident use.
	home.hetnet.nl /~ninolaudani/fr_rght_center.html (150 words)

	Chiff & Fipple: The Positively Testcard Interview featuring Dave Woodhead
		The principal limitation was volume - with the arrival of electric bass and guitar, a penny whistle simply couldn’t cut through – and so kwela all but disappeared as its proponents moved on into sax-jive and mbaqanga.
		We in the whistle world tend to hold with the legend that the kwela players were committed to the Hohner whistles.
		My understanding is that kwela players had a unique way of blowing the whistle, or holding it in their mouths.
	www.chiffandfipple.com /cftestcard/testcard.html (1705 words)

	a Kwela recording (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		If I had a bit more time, I'd like to get into kwela, a South African pennywhistle music that's been around since the 1950's and which nearly died out.
		In the meantime, my friends Colin and Brigitte sent me this fabulous gift from Germany: A 45 RPM kwela recording which I would guess dates from 1959-1966 or so.
		I know that "Tom Hark" is supposed to be sort of the the Kwela classic hit.
	www.chiffandfipple.com /kwelarecord.htm (111 words)

	Chiff and Fipple Forums :: View topic - Beginning Kwela? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		So here I am, king of the kwela is to my whistle what Freebird was to my first guitar, unachievable but fun trying and something to aim for.
		They were available in 3 keys only, Bb, C and G (low) I would guess that if the music you have is pretty old, it would be in one of these 3 keys and the most likely being the Bb or the "bee bee" as it was traditionaly called.
		On speaking to Elias Lerole (of Tom Hark fame) he said that any good kwela player could manipulate the tuning to their liking with this method, and that the whistle did not need to have good intonation in order for it to be played well and with other instruments.
	chiffboard.mati.ca /viewtopic.php?p=581890 (2221 words)

	The Session: Discussions - African penny whistle tunes - do they exist?
		There are, to my knowledge, no collections of Kwela tunes (only one "L", and no Q's except for me, dear colleagues) online.
		Kwela is dying out here in South Africa, but recently efforts have been made to record the repertoire of some of the old masters (who are also dying out).
		I heard some of this music on an NPR program once that was talking about the dying tradition of kwela -- it is fantastic stuff.
	www.thesession.org /discussions/display/6577 (1059 words)

	Kwela: National Geographic World Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It's also related to the Zulu/Xhosa word ikhwelo which means a shrill whistle.
		The kwela music that developed during the '40s and '50s almost always featured the pennywhistle, a cheap and reliable (tin flute) instrument that served as the lead voice.
		The harmonies of the kwela are simple and cyclical in nature, usually C-F-C-G7; the music combines a rapid ostinato foundation with elements of African-American jazz-swing forms.
	worldmusic.nationalgeographic.com /worldmusic/view/page.basic/genre/content.genre/kwela_744 (194 words)

	Soweto Tour - Kwela, Gumboots and all that Jazz - A musical tribute tour of Soweto
		The Musical tells the story of Soweto, its culture, history and evolution through Apartheid, the struggle days to Democracy through music, drama and dance.
		Music and dance has always been at the heart of Soweto culture from Marabi, jazz, Kwela (penny-whistle), gum-boot dancing of the migrant workers, the toyi-toying of the youth in the 70's and 80's through to Kwaito, rap and hip-hop of the modern era.
		They come together in a commuter train from Johannesburg station to Soweto and move together through this "city within a city" discovering the magic of the area and each other in the process.
	www.soweto.co.za /html/t_kwela.htm (385 words)

	IOL: North Sea Jazz Festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Guitarist Allen Kwela incorporates a myriad of styles from township to indigenous rhythms and jazz.
		He began playing after he made himself a guitar out of a one gallon oil drum and cable wires which he would strum while tending his father's herds, on the South Coast.
		His debut album The Broken Strings of Allen Kwela speaks of the broken dreams and aspirations of the fl people as a result of the Apartheid era.
	www.iol.co.za /html/whatson/northsea_jazz/allen_kwela.php (179 words)

	African Music on 45 rpm records in the UK, 1954-1981
		No doubt at this early date, many in the business still felt that rock 'n' roll was no more than a passing phase, and were on the look out for what was going to replace it in the hearts of the record-buying public.
		One of the most popular kwela groups in South Africa in the 1950s, Matshutshu / Fuzzy Night (Columbia DB4135) was, of course, their only UK issue, as it failed to follow the success of Tom Hark.
		The label of this record features the description 'Kwela Penny Whistle Jive' in larger type and a more prominent position than the names of the artists, which tells us a lot about the attitude of the record company.
	www.mustrad.org.uk /articles/african.htm (5597 words)

	Kwela Lodge - Lodge in Pietermaritzburg, Natal Midlands, KwaZulu-Natal, N3, South Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		History: The original farmhouse was built in 1841 and belonged to PAR Otto, one of the first settlers to the valley.
		In the fifties "Otto's Bluff Farm" - as Kwela Lodge was then called - was a working farm with dairy cattle, maize and wattle tree plantations and a mill.
		On your right is our entrance gate and signs 'Kwela Lodge' and 'Amble No. 1' From Durban: Take the Greytown/Church Street exit, turn right, across the N3, then follow the dirctions above.
	www.safarinow.com /go/kwelalodge (706 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)