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1956 T. Makiwane in New Age 30 Aug. 6 Full time entertainers..who were built up on the rough boards in the African townships and locations before the audiences who make township jazz what it is.

1963 V. C. Mutwa Indaba, my Children i. 1 The loud howls of modern township jive.

1966 Transition No. 24. 35/2 Anyone who has ever seen South African blacks dance the popular Kwela or listened to popular township jive music called mbaqanga would be capable of bringing new insights and understanding to compositions such as..‘Homecoming’.

1983 Times 3 Sept. (Sat. section) 7/1 Beckett's lyrical modern trumpet is offset by Pukwana's infectious township rhythms.

1987 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 24 June Rhythmically complex, yet wonderfully seductive, the township sound that dominated much of last night's show almost demanded movement.

1994 Washington Post 1 Mar. c2/2 Masekela's mbaqanga-flavored township jazz was alternately sensual, soulful and politically charged.

1998 C. A. Lockard Dance of Life vi. 268 Music has been increasingly used as a vehicle for social and political comment since the 1950s..(e.g., Jamaican reggae.., Nigerian juju and Afrobeat, South African mbaqanga and township pop, [etc.]).

2006 N. Silver in B. Hollyer You're the Best! 155 Usually he sat on the opposite pavement, listening to jazz and township music on a tinny radio.

2012 Daily Gleaner (New Brunswick) (Nexis) 17 July d5 The crowd in London's Hyde Park swayed and danced to the chiming guitars, punchy horns and accordions of the township jive.