Music of South Africa
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The South African music scene includes both popular (jive) and folk forms. Pop styles are based on four major sources, Zulu isicathamiya singing and harmonic mbaqanga.
Christian missions provided the first organised musical training in the country, bringing to light many of the modern country's earliest musicians, including Enoch Sontonga, who wrote the national anthem Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika. By the end of the nineteenth century, South African cities like Cape Town were large enough to attract foreign musicians, especially American ragtime players. African American spirituals were popularised in the 1890s by Orpheus McAdoo's Jubilee Singers.
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See also
- African music
- List of Afrikaans singers
- List of radio stations in South Africa
- List of South African musicians
- Music of Namibia
- Recording Industry of South Africa
- South African Music Awards
- Music in the movement against apartheid
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