Talk:Kwela

Kwela is within the scope of the Music genres task force of the Music project, a user driven attempt to clean up and standardize music genre articles on Wikipedia. Please visit the task force guidelines page for ideas on how to structure a genre article and help us assess and improve genre articles to good article status.Music/Music genres task forceWikipedia:WikiProject Music/Music genres task forceTemplate:WikiProject Music/Music genres task forcemusic genre articles

Africa

	Africa portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Africa, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Africa on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.AfricaWikipedia:WikiProject AfricaTemplate:WikiProject AfricaAfrica articles
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

Regional and national music

	Kwela is within the scope of the WikiProject Regional and national music, an attempt at building a resource on the music of all the peoples and places of the world. Please visit the project's listing to see the article's assessment and to help us improve the article as we push to 1.0.Regional and national musicWikipedia:WikiProject Regional and national musicTemplate:WikiProject Regional and national musicRegional and national music articles
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

Untitled[edit]

I removed "As a youngster I was told that the infectious kwela dance rhythms of the South Africa of my youth came from a word that means 'step up'." Reminiscences should not be included in articles.

and

"This name is tinged with irony, and reflects the strong, happy spirit that characterises the new South Africa, which overcomes adversity with good humour." The new South Africa started much later than the kwela era.

and

"It derives from the order, often from the police, when bundling people into their trucks. "Step up!"" as it is duplicated further on in the article. Tiles 07:36, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Kwela[edit]

Referring to Paul Simon's Graceland; that's OK, but wasn't it Harry Belafonte (Paradise in Gazangulu) using this music before? Frits van Aarssen The Netherlands

Nope. Belafonte's Paradise In Gazankulu was done in 1988, almost three years after Simon's Graceland. --LBM | ^{TALK TO ME} 15:54, 18 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Requesting two clarifications[edit]

1. What song in "Graceland" we're thinking of?

"You can call me Al" and "I know what I know" would be the two.elpincha (talk) 17:27, 26 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

2. What has a "negative connotation"? The pennywhistle? The "whites and police forces"? The music? 204.225.33.72 (talk) 15:39, 26 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]