... Chapter 7 follows Umzansi Zulu Dancers into an independent recording studio. After descriptions of the changed landscape of music recording in Johannesburg and the demographic shifts in the personnel inside studios over the last two decades, the ethnographic attention turns to the details...

... draw. The chapter concludes with the formation of Umzansi Zulu Dancers and their recording and European tours following Clegg and Savuka’s renown. Umzansi Zulu Dancers’ formation is also entangled with the international history of Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Mahlathini and the Mahotella Queens...

... recording studio Umzansi Zulu Dancers lo-fi sound Zulu male sociality ...

... The introduction presents the figure of the Zulu warrior as a key component of the history of Zulu representation, and so also key to ngoma’s structures of feeling and its commodification. It tracks some regional history of ngoma and situates the umzansi Zulu style in Msinga, KwaZulu-Natal...