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Rap songs from Public Enemy and Ludacris have been heard at marches over the killing of George Floyd. But the history of Black American music as a form of protest dates back to the 19th century.
Since the lockdown in South Africa several jazz musicians have begun to harness online platforms in novel ways.
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.
Clyde Stubblefield’s drumming has been sampled or imitated more than 1,000 times since it was recorded in 1970.
Victor Abimbola Olaiya took up highlife music in the late 1950s and combined it with the trumpet to improve on its texture and aesthetic quality.
The Tariff Board was told that if women could buy music that was cheap they would buy music that was dirty.
The release of a John Coltrane movie soundtrack from 1964 has brought jazz movies into focus.
The politics of Jonas Gwangwa’s music have stayed constant over the years, and are also apparent in the eight albums he has released in South Africa since returning from 30 years of exile.
Mac Rebennack took the stage name Dr John and a persona based on a real-life voodoo prince.
From spirituals about the trials of slavery to the fight for civil rights and the modern rhythms of swing music, Duke Ellington told a story about black life that was both beautiful and complex.
Muslims are not new to America. The first Muslims came as slaves and left a deep influence on a host of music genres, such as the blues and jazz.
Jazz used to be experienced on a dance floor. But over time, it became something to dissect and analyze.
Behind the wordless language of the jazz greats.
For a musician anywhere, surviving and prospering within the genre called jazz has never been easy, and it still isn’t.
Philip Tabane was unlike any other musician. His music was intimately woven into his cosmology and spirituality.
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.
Explorations of form and sound in jazz are essentially political. They challenge the status quo in society by interrogating categories and barriers.
South African jazz veteran Jonas Gwangwa has been getting recognition for the pivotal role he played in ‘singing down apartheid.’
Veteran Ethiopian jazz musician Mulatu Astatke continues to have an extraordinary mobility and exposure to a wide range of musical sounds.
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Associate of the Gordon Institute for Business Science, University of Pretoria
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Lecturer of English. PhD Candidate in Afrofuturism and African Studies, University of the Western Cape
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Professor of Music (post-1900), University of Glasgow
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Senior Lecturer in Popular and Contemporary Music, Newcastle University
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Assistant Teaching Professor of Music, Penn State
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Political Scientist, University of the Western Cape
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Lecturer of American Studies, University of Copenhagen
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Honorary Fellow, Department of Health Sciences, University of York
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Lecturer in Jazz, Bath Spa University
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Lecturer in Improvisation & Contemporary Music, Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne
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Researcher in Jazz and Visual Culture, Birmingham City University
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