Chris Klemens. Buraka Som Sistema – Sound of Kuduro, 2008. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CkXhtw7UNk.
Chris Klemens. Buraka Som Sistema – Hangover (BaBaBa), 2011. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOMe-8Tf1Y0.
These two sources are songs by Buraka Som Sistema who are the most popular Kuduro artists. In their songs, they talk about the importance of their music and of Kuduro. How it is more than just a song, but a cultural revolution coming out of the civil war. Sound of Kuduro shows images of impoverish Angola and Kuduro dancers in the streets and cuts in between the two. By showing the dance in conjunction with the neighborhoods and other regular people one can see the power that the people hold in the music. Similarly, Hangover shows the vibrancy of Angolan life with club scenes kids and dogs on the beaches, several cars that are modified, twerking, more Kuduro dancing and other people about their day reacting to the camera. From this we can see the freedom and love of life that the Angolese people are striving for and loving.
Kuduro has been used as a political catalyst for the MPLA movement and has united Angola under a single genre making it a very powerful and controversial sound. Buraka Som Sistema made these songs to showcase the Kuduro style and energy that it brings into the population. Not only do they showcase the dance movements and vibrant energy of Angola, there are undertones of community empowerment. If all the people are dancing to a single beat, and wanting to achieve the same levels of peace and prosperity, greater political reform and action for the people will happen. That is why I believe that Kuduro is so special. Buraka Som Sistema is not all from Angola, some members are from the Portuguese house scene. Even though this genre is Angolan, it shares its ideology internationally with its Lusophone partners which furthers my points about shared community creating and taking from cultural elements from Brazil and Portugal.