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=== Kwela ===
{{Main|Kwela}}
[[Kwela]] is a genre of [[Music of South Africa|music created in South Africa]] in the 1950s, and is characterized by an upbeat, [[jazz]]y tin whistle lead. Kwela is the only [[music genre]] created around the sound of the tin whistle. The low cost of the tin whistle, or '''jive flute''', made it an attractive instrument in the impoverished, [[Apartheid|apartheid-era]] townships; the [[Hohner]] tin whistle was especially popular in kwela performance. The kwela craze accounted for the sale of more than one million tin whistles.<ref name="Schaldach">Schaldach</ref>

In the late 1950s, [[mbaqanga]] music largely superseded kwela in South Africa, and so it followed that the [[saxophone]] surpassed the tin whistle as the township people's wind instrument of choice. Kwela master [[Jack Lerole|Aaron "Big Voice Jack" Lerole]] continued to perform into the 1990s; a few bands, such as [[The Positively Testcard]] of [[London]], continue to record kwela music.

Kwela [[sheet music]] is rarely published, and many of the recordings of founding kwela artists are [[out of print]]. One representative compilation is ''Drum: South African Jazz and Jive''.<ref>{{cite AV media
 | date = 1991
 | title = Drum: South African Jazz And Jive
 | type = CD
 | publisher = Monsun Records/Line Music GmbH
 | publication-place = Germany
}}</ref>