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| − | An African [[Music hall|vaudeville]] group founded in 1929, whose repertoire consisted of a mixture of jazz, ragtime, comic sketches, jubilee and church (amakwaya) music. It was one of many which had developed out of the [[Minstrel|minstrelsy]] tradition of the 1920s, and they took their shows on the road throughout the Union and beyond. [Kruger 29,33, Ballantine 1993]*** | + | An African [[Music hall|vaudeville]] group founded in 1929, whose repertoire consisted of a mixture of jazz, ragtime, comic sketches, jubilee and church (amakwaya) music. It was one of many which had developed out of the [[Minstrel shows in South Africa|minstrelsy]] tradition of the 1920s, and they took their shows on the road throughout the Union and beyond. [Kruger 29,33, Ballantine 1993]*** |
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An African vaudeville group founded in 1929, whose repertoire consisted of a mixture of jazz, ragtime, comic sketches, jubilee and church (amakwaya) music. It was one of many which had developed out of the minstrelsy tradition of the 1920s, and they took their shows on the road throughout the Union and beyond. [Kruger 29,33, Ballantine 1993]***
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