kwaito

subgenre of house music from South Africa
Intangible music_genre Q956717
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kwaito

Summary

kwaito is a music genre[1]. kwaito draws 229 Wikipedia views per month (music_genre category, ranking #394 of 1,946).[2]

Key Facts

  • kwaito's instance of is recorded as music genre[3].
  • kwaito's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh2001007802[4].
  • kwaito's subclass of is recorded as house music[5].
  • kwaito's subclass of is recorded as music of South Africa[6].
  • kwaito's Commons category is recorded as Kwaito music[7].
  • kwaito's country of origin is recorded as South Africa[8].
  • +1998-01-01T00:00:00Z marks the founding of kwaito[9].
  • kwaito's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/022dgg[10].
  • kwaito's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Kwaito[11].
  • kwaito's Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms ID is recorded as gf2015026071[12].
  • kwaito's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Intangible Cultural Heritage[13].
  • kwaito's MusicBrainz genre ID is recorded as 8894628d-7f01-4936-913f-949fcf6ae91b[14].
  • kwaito's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987007551693705171[15].
  • kwaito's Rate Your Music genre ID is recorded as kwaito[16].
  • kwaito's Discogs style ID is recorded as kwaito[17].
  • kwaito's Every Noise at Once ID is recorded as kwaito[18].
  • kwaito's iTunes genre ID is recorded as 100059[19].
  • kwaito's iTunes genre ID is recorded as 8403[20].
  • kwaito's iTunes genre ID is recorded as 1986[21].
  • kwaito's Yale LUX ID is recorded as concept/0192b85c-75da-4cfb-9f36-283665386cce[22].

Why It Matters

kwaito draws 229 Wikipedia views per month (music_genre category, ranking #394 of 1,946).[2] kwaito has Wikipedia articles in 13 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . National Library of Israel Names and Subjects Authority File. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . discogs.com. Retrieved . discogs.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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