South African jazz occupies a landscape that is rarely elitist, never haughtily insulated from popular and traditional sounds. Professional survival demands a multiplicity of roles and identities from its artists.
Township soul was highly political in its proud self-assertion of identity even when its songs ran the gamut from teenage love to community hopes and fears.The school principal encouraged his students to perform to raise scholarship money, and the young Mabuse offered his services as a drummer. Another teenage musician, Monty Ndimande, joined. Their early forays into more professional arenas such as community halls were disastrous.
Little did we realise there would be such a demand. Some of the other bands were older, but because we were a high-school band, students from all the high schools identified with us. The money just started rolling in…Identity shift The youngsters started touring neighbouring African states and opening for visiting overseas artists. As fast as the money rolled in, they spent it. MabuseWe were well dressed … We bought some of the most expensive clothes … If I had known about money what I know now, things would’ve been different.
A 1975 stay in neighbouring Rhodesia as that country’s independence struggle intensified was seminal in reshaping the band’s identity and discourse. Mabuse
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