Meaning of mgqashiyo | Babel Free

Definitions

A genre of African music, a more danceable style of mbaqanga.

uncountable

Examples

“Recorded in the late '70s, with tough mgqashiyo mbaqanga out of favor among cultural as well as assimilationist blacks, this proves Mahlathini's staunch loyalty to the style he originated, his total lack of alternatives, or both.”

“[…] an orgy of dance and mgqashiyo, which, literally translated, means "the beat that will never die."”

“As a producer and the saxophonist for the band Makgona Tsohle, he shaped the style called sax jive and then the music that grew out of it, called mbaqanga (named after a homemade stew) or mgqashiyo, "the indestructible beat."”

CEFR level