kwaito

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A style of music featuring words chanted over house music, originating in Johannesburg during the 1990s. South-Africa,uncountable
    — Kwaito is a genre-defying style blending the programmed percussion and vibrant call-and-response vocals of 1980s bubble-gum with British garage, American hip-hop and the new Jamaican ragga music; this inter-cultural mix, in turn, is framed by laid-back bass lines that can sound like Chicago-based house music in slow motion.
  2. The meme or milieu associated with the music style. South-Africa,uncountable
    — Sivuyile is part of the kwaito generation.

词源

From Camtho, from Afrikaans kwaai (“cool”, literally “angry”).
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