A few songs into her set, Sho Madjozi asks her performance deejay to “just throw a beat and I’ll see what I can do.” When the beat, a hard-hitting gqom instrumental, is eventually given to her, she ...

Multi-award-winning Busiswa Gqulu is one of South Africa’s most powerful voices and a trailblazer who has made the December holidays memorable with her hit songs. Over the years, she has gracefully ...

In an excerpt from the 33 ⅓ title "South African Popular Music," the author breaks down house music offshoots gqom and amapiano. When Beyoncé put together her companion soundtrack album, “The Lion ...