marabi
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- 1920-01-01
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Marabi is a style of music and dance form that evolved and emerged in South Africa between the 1890s and 1920s.
The early part of the century saw the increasing urbanisation of black South Africans in mining centres such as the gold mining area around Johannesburg - the Witwatersrand. This led to the development of township slums or ghettos, and out of this hardship came forth new forms of music, marabi and kwela amongst others.
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