Urban Village – Udondolo (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 48:18 minutes | 541 MB | Genre: World, Africa
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It takes a village to raise a child’ so the proverb goes, and although 41% of Africans now live in urban areas (World Bank 2019) the responsibilities of the village usually travel internally with those who seek their fortune in the city. In the case of Johannesburg known as “Egoli” or “city of Gold” in Zulu, migration brought mixed fortunes. But struggle, as we know, waters creativity, and from the 1930s onwards music was transplanted in Sophiatown and Soweto that distilled the folk music of many villages into a potent multitude of styles from kwela to marabi, maskandi to mbaqanga.
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