Township Jazz comes to the screen

Township music is essentially the Zimbabwean interpretation of jazz. It has its origins in the high-density suburbs of Harare (now Mbare) and Mzilikazi in Bulawayo in the 1930s.
The townships were created for African residents upon Rhodesia’s urbanisation. The documentary tries to better understand the social entertainment of earlier generations in urban Zimbabwe which moulded a musical niche, in a fusion of indigenous traditional lyrics and borrowed rhythms.