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 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 …

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 supergroup...

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 …

Joe Agu, founder of Afrorhythms.com, had the opportunity of interview...more. BayArea northern California has a diverse of musical influences. The group Masakena is one of those musical …

Dive into the grooves of Marabi, the sound that shaped South African jazz, in our Nelson Mandela Tribute Series. Witness how Marabi emerged from the struggle...

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

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 …

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 is a style of 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 centres such as …