kwela

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a kind of danceable music popular among black South Africans; includes a whistle among its instruments

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Other music The tin whistle is used in many other types of music, though not to the extent that it could be called characteristic as with Irish music and kwela. Source: Internet

Schaldach In the late 1950s, mbaqanga music largely superseded kwela in South Africa, and so it followed that the saxophone surpassed the tin whistle as the township people's wind instrument of choice. Source: Internet

The low cost of the tin whistle, or jive flute, made it an attractive instrument in the impoverished, apartheid-era townships; the Hohner tin whistle was especially popular in kwela performance. Source: Internet

The kwela craze accounted for the sale of more than one million tin whistles. Source: Internet

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