Gqom (hitting drum in Zulu) is a South African music genre from Durban’s townships 🇿🇦. Emerged during the 2010’s, it’s a style half-way between urban houses and South African traditional tunes.
Worldwide, especially in France, it has gained fame throughout people who were not familiar with it thanks to the movie Black Panther. Indeed some tracks of the movie were used on social media for the #BlackPanther challenge. On the other side, Gqom was boosted with the rise of the dance move gwara gwara. Today you can’t pretend to be a good dancer if you cannot do it 😌.
How to dance Gqom?
Like any musical style, it is associated with dance moves such as vosho and gwara gwara.
