Marabi was the name given to a keyboard style (often using cheap pedal organs) that had a musical link to American jazz, ragtime and blues, with roots deep in the African tradition. Early …

Marabi was a South African style of music rooted in jazz mixed with sounds of African rhythm. This music genre was developed during the late 1920’s in South Africa, when people of colour …

Marabi is a music and dance genre that developed in South Africa between the late 1890s and early 1920s. It arose from a blend of American jazz, blues, and ragtime, with American jazz …

In the 1920s and 1930s the urban culture of the slumyards, centred in Doornfontein in Johannesburg, was known as marabi, possibly derived from the township of Marabastad in …

Township music (also township jazz) is any of various music genres created by black people living in poor, racially segregated urban areas of South Africa ("townships") during the 20th century. …

Marabi is a style of music found in South Africa that serves both as a style of Jazz and also an underpinning to many other styles of South African Jazz. The Johannesburg-based...

Marabi was the name given to a South African keyboard style (usually played on pedal organs, which were relatively cheap to acquire) that had something in common with American ragtime …

Marabi was the name given to a keyboard style (often using cheap pedal organs) that had a musical link to American jazz, ragtime and blues, with roots deep in the African tradition. Early …

South African Jazz with origins in the 1920s and rooted in traditional South African music. Read more Marabi is a South African style with origins in the 1920s. This genre came to existence in …

Marabi is a style of township music that evolved in South Africa over the last century. The early part of the 20th century saw the increasing urbanisation of black South Africans in mining …