Popular music is music with wide appeal that is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry. These forms and styles can be enjoyed and performed by people with little or no musical training.It stands in contrast to both art music like Western classical music or Indian classical music, and traditional or “folk” music.
A music genre is a conventional category that identifies some pieces of music as belonging to a shared tradition or set of conventions. today, we are to write about  a few music genre in South Africa.
 

AFRO HOUSE MUSIC

AFRO HOUSE ORIGIN, MEANING AND HISTORY

Afro House is a sub-genre of House music, with its roots predominantly in South Africa. A fusion of Kwaito, Tribal, Deep and Soulful House music, in South Africa it is classed as Deep House or Soulful House, although it has its own unique sound. Africa is the birthplace of mankind and music, and this isreflected in the musical style – particularly in the “stripped back” original percussion sounds and rhythms.
Prominent places in tune with the sub-genre are Pretoria, Soweto, Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town within South Africa – worldwide, cities such as Amsterdam, Dubai, and Split/Dubrovnik are embracing the sound heavily.
Like all genres and sub-genres, it splits into different camps – one displaying more original African tribal sounds (tribal-house, Afro-beats) and the other combining a fusion of Chicago/NYC Soulful house with an African twist, and characterised by a vocal-led, more “sophisticated” style.
The genre has grown and developed alongside significant changes in the country in which it began. In 1994 the country transitioned from the unjust Apartheid laws to majority rule, with the African National Congress (ANC) party coming to power, led by its iconic and world respected leader, Nelson Mandela.  As often, with a major change in politics, this change brought a new found freedom and an uprising of musical talent and expression.

PROMINENT AFRO HOUSE ARTISTS INCLUDE

Black Coffee, Black Motion, Brian Temba, Chymamusique, Culoe De Song, C-Major, Darque, Deepconsoul, DJ Fresh, DJ Kent, Kaylow, Bucie, Siphiwe Mkhize (Enoo Napa), Jackie Queens, Wanda Baloyi, Echo Deep, Da Capo, Sir LSG, Tumelo, Lilac Jeans, Jullian Gomes, Derrick Flair, D.O.R. Projects, Gintonic, Octopuz, Zulumafia, House Victimz, Kat La Kat, Jazzuelle, Nastee Nev, Veneigrette, Young DJ, Rancido, Liquideep, UPZ and DJ Afrozilla.
Such is its growing influence, world respected trumpeter and flugelhorn player Hugh Masekela has collaborated and played on Afro House tracks with the likes of Ralf Gum, and Masters At Work have collaborated with a number of artists in recent times.
Afro House music roots will always be in South Africa, but it has broken the boundaries of geography and is produced and enjoyed around the world, to the extent that some artists’ passion, love for the music and fan base encouraged them to emigrate to South Africa.  Names such as the German House producer Ralf Gum, and other artists such as N’Dinga Gaba (originally from Central Africa but now based in Baltimore, Maryland) continue to spread the Afro House sound. Artists in the UK include Peng Records’ Andy Compton. Whilst Soulful House music has a small underground following around the world, in South Africa the music and culture is hugely popular and can be heard on mainstream radio, although still mainly underground in other parts of the world. Without doubt the biggest artist to emerge from South Africa is the afore-mentioned Black Coffee, largely from the success of his hit track “Superman” with Bucie. Black Coffee can be seen touring across the world at major events.
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AMAPIANO MUSIC

South African house music  is known for its ability to constantly reinvent itself. And 2018 has been no different. A new sound which is known as amapiano is a mix of deep house, gqom all mixed in with the jazzy,soulful sound of a piano.of Born in Soweto, a homegrown label which backed AmaPiano since its early days, Initially, Amapiano was a confined success in the townships, playing in.

AMAPIANO ORIGIN, MEANING AND HISTORY

Amapiano, the word being used to describe what’s currently South Africa’s fastest-growing electronic-music movement, belies the supposed inclusivity of having an isiZulu plural article (ama) conjoined with an English noun (~piano). It is the saying of it, where emphasis is placed, that creates and lays naked one’s distance from or proximity to it in language, in culture, in history.
Amapiano, or piano to the hip, inherits its genetics from lineages of music made and popularised in the country’s townships. It takes after jazz with its keys, kwaito with its basslines and harmonies, gets its drum patterns and percussion from di Bacardi and its tempo from late ’90s South African house. But its demeanour – sometimes soulful, sometimes carnal, often epicurean – is all of its own making and signifies its own time.
There’s no other genre like the infamous amapiano which basically means pianos. The genre’s name is loosely descriptive of its framework around its intuitive chord progressions and sounding of piano keys. This genre has gone from inane social media feuds to a compendium of memes to making the biggest songs South Africa has ever heard. Out of all of this madness and music there is a pair of skilful individuals whose sound takes on a more technical approach to musical things. This new house-music genre has taken over the airwaves in SA – and its hitmakers intend to keep it that way

List Of Amapiano Artists And Producers

The Amapiano genre is a free for all try your talents genre. There are absolutely no restrictions and we have seen a lot of collaborations between artists who just want to make good music. However, when you mention the genre of amapiano, there are a few names that have to be mentioned including Kabza De Small, and Vigro Deep.
Below is a curated list of current Amapiano Producers and Artists.

• Kabza De Small
• JazziDisciples
• Kaygee Daking
• Kwiish SA
• ElusiveBoy SA
• Thackzin DJ
• Soul Revolver
• Bitter Soul
• Deep Tonic
• Dj Clizo
• Dazz-B Music
• De Mthuda
• Vigro Deep

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GQOM MUSIC

Gqom is a genre of electronic dance music that emerged in the early 2010s from Durban, South Africa. It developed out of South African house music, kwaito techno. Unlike other South African electronic music, gqom is typified byminimal, raw and repetitive sound with heavy bass beats but without the four-
on-the-floor rhythm pattern. Music connoisseurs who embraced the new sound included the likes of South African rapper Okmalumkoolkat, Italian record label Gqom Oh owner, Malumz Kole, Afrotainment record label owner DJ Tira, as well as Babes wodumo with the music taste-maker and personal public relations liaison, Cherish LaLa Mankai. Related artists are DJ Lag, DJ Bongz, Lord The Dj, MasterT, Dj Noffoh, Dj Nkaa, Rudeboyz, Distruction Boyz & AudioBoyz.
The word gqom derives from an onomatopoeic combination of click consonants in the isiZulu and isiXhosa meaning a hitting drum. It is also expressed as qgom, igqom, gqomu or variants thereof.
Gqom is known for its beats which have a minimal, raw and repetitive sound with heavy bass. It is mainly described as having a dark and hypnotic club sound.[citation needed] The style of beats does not use the four-on-the-flour rhythm pattern which is often heard in other house music.[1] Typical lyrical themes include nightlife and. It often uses one phrase or a few lines which are repeated numerous times in the song. Gqom was developed by a young generation of technologically skilled DJs producing in D.I.Y. fashion with software such as FL Studio and often self distributing their music on file sharing platforms. From the mid-2010s the genre gained prominence abroad, especially in London. Gqom music is associated with a number of distinctive dance moves, including gwara gwara, vosho and bhenga.
 Gwara gwara

Gwara gwara is performed by rolling and swinging the arm and the elbow in terms of making a circle, and one of the leg moves in connection with the arm’s rhythm. It has some similarities to the Stanky Leg. The dance move created by disc jockey and producer DJ Bongz, was heavily imitated by South Africans and other African people mainly during 2016. It also received widespread globally as the choreography was adopted by notable musicians: Rihanna performed the dance move while performing Wild Thoughts at the 60th Annual Grammy Awards in 2018. Childish Gambino performed the dance on his video of the song This Is America.
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Kwaito Music

Kwaito is a music genre that emerged in Johannesburg, South Africa, during the 1990s. It is a variant of house music featuring the use of African sounds  and samples. Typically at a slower tempo range than other styles of house music, Kwaito often contains catchy melodic and percussive loop samples, deep bass lines, and vocalsTypically at a slower tempo range than other styles of house music, Kwaito often contains catchy melodic and percussive loop samples, deep bass lines, and vocals,  According to wikipedia, the word kwaito is an Isicamtho term from the Gauteng
townships and encompasses styles that range from guz, d’gong, and isgubhu to swaito. The word originates from the Afrikaans kwaai, which used as a slang term is the equivalent of the English term hot. Kwaito led a post-Apartheid township subculture into the mainstream. Despite the fact that the Afrikaans language is associated with the apartheid regime and racial oppression, Afrikaans words are often drawn into the Isicamtho vocabulary, reshaped and used in a related or new context. M’du Masilela, a pioneering Kwaito artist, said, “When house music got popular, people from the ghetto called it Kwaito after the Afrikaans slang word kwai [sic], meaning those house tracks were hot, that they were kicking.Another Isicamtho word derived from the Afrikaans word kwaai is amakwaitosi, which means gangster. The popular Kwaito artist and producer Arthur Mafokate describes the relationship between Kwaito and gangsterism as music revolving around ghetto life.
Music in Africa is very important when it comes to religion. Songs and music are used in rituals and religious ceremonies, to pass down stories from generation to generation, as well as to sing and dance to.
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