A Durban-born dancer shared a gqom tutorial in a Swedish club, showing how South African music and dance continued to travel ...

Perhaps in a manner similar to dancehall, it is nearly impossible to speak of gqom without paying attention to its environmental context. The dance space, be it legendary clubs such as downtown Durban ...

For a lot of people over here, Gqom Oh! Is the extent of what they know about gqom but there’s so much more going on. People tend to say, "Good music are those tracks that make you travel without ...

YOU could be the next dancing sensation and star in a television commercial. South Africa’s most loved school shoe brand has just the thing for you. Toughees wants you to show us your best dance moves ...

The thing about music is that it evolves beyond the location it was established in or its brainchild. Take Hip Hop for instance, it was founded in the mid-70s in Brooklyn, New York, by black youth, ...

Last month's System Focus column on emerging African and Afrodiasporic networks featured Angel-Ho, an artist bringing ballroom and other U.S. club flavors of black and gay origin into new and ...

‘I pioneered Cape Town gqom’ — 24-year-old Simphiwe Sihawu from Samora Machel in Cape Town took the South African gqom sound to South Korea and the UK all in one year. Sihawu, better known as Mr Thela ...

Shiba Melissa Mazaza speaks to South African pioneer DJ Lag about his debut album 'Meeting With The King' and a series of encounters that shaped his path in music and life Aggressive, poetic, artistic ...