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Abafana Baseqhudeni and Boyoyo Boys were perhaps the biggest new stars of this period. This is indicative of a progression in the story, rather than the widely held sentiment that traditional music has been tainted or watered down by more modern or foreign influences. Their music is largely characterised by polyphonic chants, not unlike that incantations of the amaXhosa. After losing the privileged protection and promotion of the language and the culture by the State, the Afrikaans-speaking community seems to have spontaneously started embracing and developing their language and culture. The only station that kept the fires burning was Radio Tsonga, today known as Munghana Lonene FM. The Mahotella Queens' members began leaving the line-up around 1971 for rival groups. There's a chart by TINA Magazine that currently monitors Although the local music scene has continued to grow exponentially since the 2000s, a lot of South Africans still consume foreign music contents over local contents.

He plays the character of Vho-Mulingo in Vho-Mulingo comedy. But their mere existence underlines the fact that so-called traditional music is still alive and well, and still evolving. His motivation for doing so in the market domain was to retrace his own ancestry. The music has persevered from ancient times to be reinterpreted by innovative musicians like Tabane, Mhlongo, Galane and others. One of the main artists to revisit the way of the Khoisan is Pops Mohamed. One view is that when this occurred, the name Amashangane was imposed upon them.

After apartheid, artists such as Penny Penny and Ester M continued on Ndlovu’s path, furthering blurring the lines between traditional and disco. Tshidino was born and bred in Tshakhuma, a rural village in South Africa in the Limpopo Province. The full album was planned for release in 2012, featuring two other giants: Takalani Mudau of "baby fusheani" fame and the Burning Doctor of "A lu na mutwe" fame. South Africa's first Another notable goth artist was The Eternal Chapter, which had a hit with the cover "Here comes the man", originally by The most lasting change, however, may have been the importation of In 1983 a major new South African star was born, Brenda Fassie. The story of traditional music in South Africa is characterised by multiplicity: both in the cultural diversity of its indigenous song and dance traditions and in the transformation of these rooted traditions into new syncretic traditional/popular music forms, novel in both musical … In and around Johannesburg the growth of the independent music scene led to not just a surge of bands ranging from big names (relatively speaking) Tribe after Tribe, The Dynamics, The Softies and the Spectres through to smaller hopefuls What Colours, Days Before and No Exit, but also to the growth of a vibrant DIY fanzine scene with "Palladium" and "One Pag… Modern history and market sensibilities have attempted to place African spiritual or traditional music into palatable ‘world music’ categories for foreign ears, reducing the music to a marketable and definable ‘essence’. Despite the restrictions, XiTsonga artists such Thomas Chauke & the Shinyori Sisters and Joe Shirimani were stars.

In his column in the late 1960s for The amaXhosa are a nation whose subgroups include the amaBhaca, amaFengu, amaMpondo and amaThembu. Bands such as Thomas Chauke and the Xinyori Sisters and George Maluleke predominantly used guitars; however the modern sound replaces these with the xylophone or bass marimba. Then came the new breed of South African metal with a band called Ragnärok, South Africa's first thrash metal band, formed by The Blues Rock scene has dramatically emerged in South Africa. Musicians were forced to comply, recording music that was defined by the ethnicity of the artist – to the point where albums covers were labeled, for example, ‘Zulu’, ‘Sotho’ or ‘Venda’. Some young whites were attracted to the music, and came to be known as By the 1960s, the saxophone was commonplace in jive music, the performance of which continued to be restricted to townships. One theory is that the end of Apartheid in 1994 also meant the end of the privileged position that the Afrikaans culture had in South Africa.