If you’ve never heard a “vuvuzela,” you haven’t been watching the World Cup. The plastic (sort-of) horns are blown incessantly throughout the games. Every game, not only when South Africa plays. And ...

Want to hear what your favorite pop star or politician sounds like accompanied by the most memorable sound of the soccer World Cup in South Africa -- the droning vuvuzela trumpet? By Marius Bosch, Jon ...

Even before the World Cup broadcasts began, there was worry about the sound of the vuvuzelas. After repeated efforts failed to ban the loud crowd-favored horns, television audio technicians went into ...

When the insistent drone of massed vuvuzela first imposed itself on the world during televised World Cup matches in 2010, I thought “Huh! Well, they’ll soon filter that out”. But soon it became clear ...

The World Cup breakout stars in 2010 include Puyol, Donovan, Mueller, and The Psychic Octopus. But there’s no bigger phenomenon in South Africa this summer than that obnoxious plastic horn, the ...

Want to hear what your favorite pop star or politician sounds like accompanied by the most memorable sound of the soccer World Cup in South Africa - the droning vuvuzela trumpet? Try YouTube. The ...

The debate around the vuvuzela was always going to generate big noise but for some South African commentators it has become almost a neo-colonial conflict. The noisy trumpet, which dominates the sound ...

For the past week I have woken up to the loud sound of a lone "vuvuzela," or long horn, in the Company's Garden area of Cape Town, South Africa, where I am staying for the World Cup. I was startled, ...