A talented comedian and serious dramatic actor with a gift for accents, Robbie Coltrane is a huge loss to TV and screen.
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Articles sur John Coltrane
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Zulu spirituality and the legacy of the ancestors, personal and musical, are the concerns of the saxophonist and composer.
Davis’s 1970 album Bitches Brew turned jazz on its head and paved the way for fusion. More recently, Radiohead cited it as a key influence.
The release of a John Coltrane movie soundtrack from 1964 has brought jazz movies into focus.
For a musician anywhere, surviving and prospering within the genre called jazz has never been easy, and it still isn’t.
A greater synergy between academics and practitioners is needed to progress hip hop for it to be taken seriously as a core area for study.
The story of jazz in the ANC army-in-exile, Umkhonto we Sizwe culture is far more nuanced – and positive – than depicted in a new film.
The protest song “Malcolm’s gone” not only pays tribute to one of the most influential black leaders, but provocatively likens him, as a Muslim and so-called enemy of the state, to Jesus Christ.
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Associate of the Gordon Institute for Business Science, University of Pretoria
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Senior Lecturer in Popular and Contemporary Music, Newcastle University
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Lecturer of English. PhD Candidate in Afrofuturism and African Studies, University of the Western Cape
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Research Lead at Rhythm Obscura / Lecturer in the School of Art, Design and Architecture, University of Plymouth
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Senior Lecturer, York St John University
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Programme Leader & Broadcast Lecturer, School of Business & Creative Industries, University of the West of Scotland
