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Old 01-20-2018, 06:02 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Hey! I'm excited to see a thread dedicated to South African music; as a country, they have an extraordinary fertility of music and musical styles.

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Originally Posted by GunmouthGrace View Post
Anyway, this is for all South African music: be it traditional folk songs, native or Afrikaner, as well as modern South African music.

To start us off: here's the music of Marais and Miranda.
^ I'm going to take you at your word, GGrace, and post a couple of links if you don't mind. Those Maias and Miranda songs are interesting, with that genuine, original, crackly 78 sound - you'll find more of that in a thread I started when I was, with great enthusiasm exploring South African Jazz:-
http://www.musicbanter.com/jazz-blue...ican-jazz.html

And here is a post that was made ages ago about modern South African music. Surprisingly, the link still works, so thank you, zeppy111:-
http://www.musicbanter.com/743648-post260.html

And here's a favourite fun song:-

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