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	South African Arts and Culture: Jazz (1)
		This was marabi music, a foundation element of South African jazz and an indigenous product of the urban ghettoes that were a feature of South African cities for much of this century.
		Its roots are in the marabi styles that adapted rural rhythms to urban conditions in the first half of the twentieth century.
		But the chord progressions and improvisational style of marabi, together with excursions into the hexatonic mode of African choral singing (plus a canon of unique jazz standards) continued to flavour the fusion and can still be heard in South African jazz today.
	www.chico.mweb.co.za /mg/saarts/music-jazz1.htm (680 words)

	excerpts from life
		D&D 3.5 Edition is coming, and I found out today that Marabi, who I thought would remain mostly untouched by the changes, is going to get pummeled with the nerf bat.
		She's already a bit on the weak side for a fighter, because of the choice of two-weapon fighting with light, exotic weapons, and feats taken to qualify for two different prestige classes.
		Marabi more or less held her own in the party anyway because of Power Attack.
	seshat.org /excerpts/archives/00000167.htm (779 words)

	Welcome to South Africa
		Marabi was the name given to a keyboard style (usually played on pedal organs, which were relatively cheap to acquire) that had something in common with American ragtime and the blues, played in ongoing cycles with roots deep in the African tradition.
		Associated with the illegal liquor dens and with vices such as prostitution, the early marabi musicians formed a kind of underground musical culture and were not recorded.
		But the lilting melodies and loping rhythms of marabi found their way willy-nilly into the sounds of the bigger dance bands, modelled on American swing groups, which began to appear in the 1920s; it added to their distinctively South African style.
	www.southafrica.net /index.cfm?SitePageID=299 (462 words)

	All About Jazz \| Email This Article
		The music, we are told in the liner notes, “fuses kwela, mbaqanga, marabi and Jazz to form a sound that is unique and trademark by nature.” No argument here.
		Marabi, one of the earliest uniquely South African musical forms, arose in the fl townships in the '20s.
		From marabi came kwela, also a music of the urban ghettoes, which incorporates elements of swing and expanded instrumentation (most often including a pennywhistle).
	www.allaboutjazz.com /php/article_email.php?id=9525 (459 words)

	DAILY STAR: Top Stories
		Marabi who sustained 27 stab wounds all over his body, died instantly, police reports said.
		In an interview at the Silay police headquarters, the detained Viruel claimed that he was shot by Marabi.
		Two hunting knives allegedly used in the stabbing of Marabi are now in the possession of the police, for use as an evidence in the filing of charges against the suspects.
	www.visayandailystar.com /2003/April/22/topstory4.htm (235 words)

	Jeff's Cafe - Kaledor City of Wonders Campaign
		The dwarf women's features began to melt or shimmer and it became apparent this dwarf was not or rather was a goblin in magical disguise.
		The shocking sight caused Marabi to flee and magically forced Ivy to ride away on her horse at top speed.
		Marabi (DaveD) - a female elf fighter who appears to be a fan dancer.
	jeff.mooville.net /kaledor.html (3196 words)

	Marabi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The early part of the 20th century saw the increasing urbanisation of fl South Africans in mining centres such as the gold mining area around Johannesburg - the so-called Witwatersrand.
		Nonetheless, as with early jazz, the lilting melodies and catchy rhythms of marabi found their way into the sounds of popular dance bands with a distinctively South African style.
		This has which has influenced South African music since then, from the jazz performers of the post-war years to the more populist township forms of the 1980s and onwards.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marabi (344 words)

	excerptsFromLife.archive(24)
		Both figures have had their noses painted, Livia wound up with eyes on her cheekbones and Marabi had a sort of KISS look going on for a moment.
		Marabi is my character for Jeff's campaign, and as you might guess, she uses a war fan and will be training as a Fan Dancer as soon as she qualifies.
		I was inspired to write up some history for Marabi as a sort of framework, and began an in-character journal as well.
	seshat.org /journal/archive24.htm (4673 words)

	rakeling's AD&D campaign (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Because the Marabi could experience the world in all its living forms, thier insight and joy were great.
		However, the Marabi came to envy the Takri's songs, and their ablity to fly.
		One daring Marabi, named Huon, captured and ate a Takri and was pleased with the results.
	members.tripod.com /rakeling/queen/speak.html (616 words)

	Afroblue (by L. Proyect)
		Marabi, better known as "township jive," has roots in American jazz, church hymns and local African rhythms.
		His electronic keyboard is analogous to the accordion in Marabi bands, with their chugging, nonstop rhythms.
		Is it soukous or marabi or son conjunto?
	www.columbia.edu /~lnp3/mydocs/culture/afroblue.htm (1199 words)

	allAfrica.com: Zimbabwe: What Does Jeys Call His Music? (Page 1 of 1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It's believed that the name marabi originated from a fl township known as Marabastad in Pretoria where marabi dance parties were common.
		Because kwela music, unlike marabi or tsaba-tsaba, was an outdoor form of music, gamblers would post pennywhistle players on each end of the street so that when they saw the kwelas coming, they would start playing as a warning for the gamblers to break up and come dancing.
		When the saxophone and piano were added to the pennywhistle, kwela took on a different form and became known as majuba after Ntemi Piliso who lived in Alexandra had recorded a song of the same name.
	allafrica.com /stories/200612070327.html (892 words)

	BBC - Radio 3 Awards for World Music 2003 - Bembeya Jazz
		If there's any such thing as a "golden age" in the music of a nation, then the 1960s and 1970s were that time for the West African state of Guinea.
		He subsequently oversaw the production of their first album in 14 years for his new label Marabi.
		Much like the new recording by Orchestra Baobab, that other legendary West African outfit who have recently been given a new lease of life, Bembeya showcases new versions of old songs from their illustrious past.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio3/world/awards2003/profile_jazz.shtml (448 words)

	Mahotella Queens Biography - Albums
		The Mahotella Queens are part of the legend of the urban South African music that helped create what is known as Mbaquanga.
		Mbaquanga: a fusion of traditional South African tribal music with Marabi (South African jazz), blues, soul, and gospel.
		The Mahotella Queens were established in the 1960’s as a harmony group and were fronted by legendary Simon Nkabindé Mahlathini.
	www.wrasserecords.com /Mahotella_Queens_41/biography.html (260 words)

	Global Nation \| INQ7.net
		Tomas said in a press statement as she acknowledged the honest act of Filipino nurse Melitza Anne Chan, 27, of Manduriao, Iloilo, who works as the assistant to the chief of the Dental Department of the Marabi Hospital in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
		He said Philippine Consul General Pendosina Lomondot invited her personally to the Consulate to acknowledge her honest deed in the presence of Philippine officials.
		Bulyok remarked that Chan's employer, the Marabi hospital, also commended the integrity and honesty of the Filipino nurse.
	www.inq7.net /globalnation/sec_new/2005/jul/11-02.htm (382 words)

	Johnny Mbizo Dyani - Music-Maker
		Transcending the boundaries of nations and cultures, Mbizo's enthusiasm spread and inspired the session with his intense passion.
		A passion which revelled in a nostalgia for the myths and melodies of Marabi and Kwela.
		Mbizo's life was music, he gave his life for music.
	www.geocities.com /rjhwalker (326 words)

	Bembeya Jazz
		The show was therefore one part continuation of the Central Park concert, and one part solo performance by Diabate, featuring such classics as "Diamond Fingers" from his 1990s solo release.
		Bembeya's 2003 America tour is part of a larger effort by the band, and record label Marabi, to bring the orchestra back into the limelight.
		The band had regrouped in 2002 to perform at the Musique Metisses festival in Angouleme, France, an annual event that has become a big draw for African music in France.
	www.africasounds.com /bembeya_jazz.htm (1184 words)

	MGS102 Weeks 1, 2 and 3: Part 3
		marabi dances (parties) in the yards of Doornfontein.
		Marabi as a signifier for a class of people
		Black middle-class perceptions of and reactions to marabi (elitist responses to working-class culture).
	users.iafrica.com /m/mo/morneb/mushist/mgs102_3.htm (233 words)

	Welcome to the VISAYAN DAILY STAR Website (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A squad leader of the Revolutionary Proletarian Army was among the three fatalities in stabbing and shooting incidents while Maundy Thursday and Holy Friday were being observed by Negrenses.
		RPA squad leader Danilo Marabi, alias Ka Oban, died after he was stabbed allegedly by Viruel Fajalonggo and his uncle, Nelson Fajalonggo, at Purok Ipil-Ipil, Brgy.
		Police investigations show that Marabi had shot Viruel in the left shoulder.
	www.visayandailystar.com /2003/April/21/index.htm (293 words)

	Benn loxo du taccu » Blog Archive » Marabi jazz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A while ago Benn loxo listener Michael sent me a fantastic compilation that he put together of music from 10 African countries from the 1930s to 60s.
		[…] South African pop music started hitting Western ears when the marabi sound emerged in the early decades of the 20th century.
		Marabi mixed American-style blues and jazz with some of the traditional forms popular at the time with fl youth in South African urban centers.
	mattgy.net /music/archives/2005/08/12/marabi-jazz (382 words)

	SOUTH AFRICAN MUSIC
		NTEMI Edmund Piliso, leader and a founding member of the African Jazz Pioneers, nourished the group from their humble roots to their current international acclaim.
		In the early 1950s, Ntemi and his “Alexandra All-Star Band” hit the cutting edge of South Africa’s music scene, blending American urban big band style with traditional Majuba tempos and Marabi music influences.
		At the centre of this great musical movement was Sophiatown, a thrilling community of artists, musicians, gangsters, writers and political leaders making their mark on South Africa’s growing urban culture.
	www.music.org.za /artist.asp?id=75 (701 words)

	African Odyssey - festival of African dance, music and theater from Africa and the Diaspora American Visions - Find ...
		Ki Yi M'Bock, a 30-member troupe from the Ivory Coast, makes its debut in America (April 7 to 8) with Berceuses d'Eveil, a musical theatre piece composed of vignettes that highlight the musical and dance heritages of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Congo, the Ivory Coast, Mali, Nigeria, South Africa and Zaire.
		The Junction Avenue Theater Company, a South African troupe, presents Marabi (April 11 to 12), an adaptation of the 1963 novel Marabi Dance, by Modikwe Dikobe.
		Combining township jazz, a cappella song, marabi piano and a contemporary urban African performance style, this piece depicts the tensions between rural ways of life and the pleasures and perils of street life in the African slums of Depression-era Johannesburg.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1546/is_n2_v12/ai_19404308 (548 words)

	Rhythmic Resistance :: The Memphis Flyer :: the mid-south's news weekly :: Music Features :: Music
		Though it repeats a few tracks from The History of Township Music, Township Jazz 'N' Jive gives a fuller portrait of the scene: an elegant fusion of indigenous rhythms and melodies with the influences of American artists such as Count Basie and the Mills Brothers.
		But perhaps better is this collection that looks back at the first generation of '60s and '70s mbaqanga that preceded the music on Indestructible.
		Dark City Sisters and Flying Jazz Queens -- Dark City Sisters/Flying Jazz Queens (Earthworks, 1993): The Dark City Sisters were a female harmony group that ruled the South African scene from the mid-'50s to the mid-'60s before the Mahotella Queens took their crown.
	www.memphisflyer.com /memphis/Content?oid=oid:5262 (1134 words)

	MGS102 Weeks 1, 2 and 3: Part 2
		Marabi culture - the urban working-class culture of the slums: marabi as music, marabi as dance and social occasion, and marabi as a signifier for a class of people
		An early marabi musician: Ntebejana in Prospect Town; but did he really compose "Ntebejana ufana nemfene" as Coplan says?
		Track 14 (W.P. Zikali with the Jazz Revellers, "Ntebejana ufana nemfene", Johannesburg, 1933) from the Marabi Nights cassette recording accompanying MN.
	users.iafrica.com /m/mo/morneb/mushist/mgs102_2.htm (282 words)

	Amazon.com: Marabi Nights: Early South African Jazz and Vaudeville: Books: Christopher Ballantine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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		Marabi Nights: Early South African Jazz and Vaudeville (Paperback)
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	www.amazon.com /Marabi-Nights-Early-African-Vaudeville/dp/0869754394 (551 words)

	Marabi Nights: Early South African Jazz And Vaudeville; Author: Ballantine, Christopher; Paperback; Audio Cassette ...
		Marabi Nights: Early South African Jazz And Vaudeville; Author: Ballantine, Christopher; Paperback; Audio Cassette (Music)
		Marabi Nights: Early South African Jazz And Vaudeville
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	www.netstoreusa.com /stbooks/086/0869754394.shtml (159 words)

	Rush Artifacts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Geddy has named Jeff Berlin as one of his favorite bass players.
		Marabi was included on the cd Crossroads, a combination of the best songs from the albums Champion and Pump It!
		Marabi at Freedom Of Music, the largest collection of Rush rarities in MP3 format.
	www.2112.net /artifacts/volume1/track5/5.html (56 words)

	Benn loxo du taccu » Blog Archive » The King down South
		You see, last night was games night and there are cards, whisky glasses and poker chips everywhere.
		South African pop music started hitting Western ears when the marabi sound emerged in the early decades of the 20th century.
		To keep the post somewhat seasonal: at some stage during my family’s Christmas party someone inevitably busts out some Elvis’ Blue Christmas, sung or recorded.
	bennloxo.com /?p=194 (283 words)

	mbaqanga: Afropop Style -- South Africa, Southern Africa
		Mbaqanga grew out of earlier styles--pennywhistle kwela, township sax jive, gospel-inspired African choral music, and marabi, the lifeblood of South Africa's illegal township shebeens and dancehalls in the first half of the century.
		Musicians who remember marabi from the 40's and 50's evoke careening piano players, singers improvising staccato lines steeped in Zulu tradition, and colorings of pennywhistle, banjo, and drums--a kind of African ragtime.
		Next came the pennywhistle style, known as kwela.
	www.afropop.org /explore/style_info/ID/20/Mbaqanga (338 words)

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