Music of South Africa
The South African music scene includes both popular (jive) and folk forms.
During the punk rock boom of the late 1970s, South African bands like Wild Youth gained a cult following, focused in Durban. In the 1980s, Johnny Clegg and Juluka helped fuse rock and roll with native Zulu folk musics. The same decade saw a resurgence in rock and roll bands like The Helicopters, Petit Cheval, Sterling and Tellinger. The next decade brought popular attention on alternative rock bands like The Usual and Scooter's Union.
South African performers:
- The Asylum Kids
- Bright Blue
- Clout
- Freedom's Children
- The Helicopters
- Hugh Masekela
- Johnny Clegg
- Juluka
- Just Jinger
- Ladysmith Black Mambazo
- Mango Groove
- Mahatolla Queens
- Miriam Makebe
- Nine
- No Friends of Harry
- Penguins in Bondage
- Petit Cheval
- Power Age
- The Psycho Reptiles
- Rabbit
- Scabby Annie
- Scooter's Union
- The Springbok Nude Girls
- Squeal
- Sterling
- Sugardrive
- Tellinger
- Trans Sky
- Tribe After Tribe
- The Usual
- Vusi Mahlasela
- Wild Youth
