Popular Musical Forms From South Africa

Does popular South African music really exist? An answer with this musical trail with a journalist, collector of vinyls.

The main subject material of the journalist from Bordeaux and author of Africa 100, la traversée sonore d’un continent (Africa 100: a Journey across the Sounds of a Continent): Music and multiple genres. Florent Mazzoleni presents a unique sound conference on the history of modern music in South Africa. He evokes the golden age of music that combines polyphony, kwela, jazz, rock and political emancipation. Between instrumental exuberance and incantations, the audience will witness the birth of true South African popular music that combines tradition and electric modernity, from 1960 to the present day.