It may have started in “The Warehouse” club, Chicago, but the center of the house music world has relocated. Today the biggest house market per capita anywhere in the world is South Africa.

Gqom is a South African house music subgenre. Electronic house emerged in the early 2010s, largely influenced by producers DJ Lag, Rudeboyz, Griffit Vigo, Dominowe, and Citizen Boy.

South Africa has always had strong links with electronic music. In the Nineties, black DJs slowed the tempo of American house and techno right down and sparked a distinctive new rave scene, from ...

In much of the world, house music has already had its day — but in South Africa, it is pop music.

Black Coffee, the South African DJ-producer born Nathi Maphumulo, has started to garner attention stateside for his light-touch house jams. He gives us the lay of his native land.

Even during the pandemic, amapiano, a bright, jazzy dance music culled from local house flavors and global R&B, has persisted as the country’s top genre, according to prominent South African ...

From Beyonce's "My Power" to "Black Panther," new 33 1/3 book explores how the sounds of South Africa reached pop's global stage.