Jaiva

Jaiva or Township Jive ("TJ") is a subgenre of South African township music and African dance form which has influenced Western break dance and emerged from the shebeen culture of the apartheid era townships.

Influences and particularity

While closely associated with mbaqanga, Township Jive more broadly incorporates some influences from mariba and kwaito rather than mbaqanga, neither of which is it synonymous. To the extent mariba influences TJ, it may be somewhat sanitised as TJ broke into the international commercial arena.

Emergence in world music circles

Also featured on the Graceland album were The Boyoyo Boys, who received additional press coverage when Malcolm McLaren allegedly plagiarised their song "Puleng" and released it as the hit "Double Dutch", capitalising on the emergence of breakdance and hip-hop.

Additional momentum for world beat attention to South African music developed as a result of international attention to the demise of apartheid and Nelson Mandela's 70th birthday concert in Wembley Stadium, London in 1988.