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The queen of Xhosa music has passed away. She reinvigorated ancient Xhosa cultural traditions through performance and teaching.
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Clay figurines of musicians, made in the 1930s, are being exhibited along with a new film of actual musicians playing the traditional instruments.
His single Yeke Yeke was the first African song to pass a million in sales, but it’s meaning was best understood in Guinea, home of the griot and kora star.
There is so much more to Iran than politics. Its traditional music carries messages of beauty, joy, sorrow and love to the world.
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Associate of the Gordon Institute for Business Science, University of Pretoria
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Doctoral Candidate, Comparative Literature, Religion and History of Philosophy, University of Sydney
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Ethnomusicology and African Musical Arts lecturer, Rhodes University
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Associate Professor of Musicology, University of Cape Town
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Professor of music, SOAS, University of London
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Senior Lecturer, Stellenbosch University
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Postdoctoral Fellow at Wits Centre for Diversity Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Artist in Residency, University of Pretoria
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, Anthropology, and Public Health, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology, University of Warsaw
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Professor of Music, Wesleyan University
