The Republic of South Africa is the southernmost country on the African continent and has a population of more than 55 million. South African music was also amongst the core powerhouses that fuelled the development of the ‘World Music’ movement in the 1980s and its musics continue to hold symbolic currency in the representation of ‘Africa’ in the global imagination today. The songs of South Africa are renowned for the profound social and political role they played in the struggle against Apartheid rule. In the countryside, music remains a largely participatory and integral part of everyday cultural life and, in the townships and the modern cities, these deep-rooted traditions have given birth to a wide variety of popular music styles that proliferate across the country, in the global South African diaspora and in centres of ‘World Music’ around the world. South Africa is famed for its cultural vitality and musical richness.
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