The Sound of South African Township Jive

South Africa is home to a number of popular musical forms including Mbaqanga, a genre characterized as urban pop music and, Township Jive that emerged from the apartheid era in South Africa. With high-pitched, choppy guitars and a powerful bass line, township jive or “TJ”, heavily influenced by “funk, reggae, American R&B and soul, also draws on South African Marabi styled gospel music which defines the heavily influence style of township jive…