South African lawyer and part-time fashion model, Thando Hopa, at an exhibition of Drum magazine front pages in.
Johannesburg.
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The magazine grew to be the largest circulation publication for black readers in South Africa, and expanded to include East and West African editions.
Rapper YG, center in white, at a June 7 protest over the death of George Floyd.
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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.
Nduduzo Makhathini in 2016.
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Since the lockdown in South Africa several jazz musicians have begun to harness online platforms in novel ways.
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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.
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Clyde Stubblefield’s drumming has been sampled or imitated more than 1,000 times since it was recorded in 1970.
Street vendors sell their wares beneath a mural of musical great Victor Olaiya in Lagos.
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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.
‘For the sake of the husbands, wouldn’t it be better if these records were kept out of Australia?’
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The Tariff Board was told that if women could buy music that was cheap they would buy music that was dirty.
Virtuoso: John Coltrane (tenor sax), Cannonball Adderley (alto sax), Miles Davis (trumpet) and Bill Evans (piano) recording Kind of Blue in 1959.
Pedro Garcia
The release of a John Coltrane movie soundtrack from 1964 has brought jazz movies into focus.
Jonas Gwangwa in 2010.
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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.
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Mac Rebennack took the stage name Dr John and a persona based on a real-life voodoo prince.
Duke Ellington leads his orchestra in a rehearsal in Coventry, England, on Dec. 2, 1966.
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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.
An attorney for the Muslim enclave of Islamberg prays in a mosque in Tompkins, New York. American Muslims have a history going back 400 years.
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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.
At some point, jazz went from the music of youthful rebellion to that of the cultured elite.
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Jazz used to be experienced on a dance floor. But over time, it became something to dissect and analyze.
Perfect pitch: Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong.
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Behind the wordless language of the jazz greats.
South African rising jazz star, Thabang Tabane.
Lidudumalingani Mqombothi
For a musician anywhere, surviving and prospering within the genre called jazz has never been easy, and it still isn’t.
Philip Tabane.
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Philip Tabane was unlike any other musician. His music was intimately woven into his cosmology and spirituality.
Q-Tip (L) of A Tribe Called Quest performing in 2013.
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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.
Vijay Iyer.
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Explorations of form and sound in jazz are essentially political. They challenge the status quo in society by interrogating categories and barriers.
Jonas Gwangwa performing in Germany in 2010.
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South African jazz veteran Jonas Gwangwa has been getting recognition for the pivotal role he played in ‘singing down apartheid.’
Mulatu Astatke.
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Veteran Ethiopian jazz musician Mulatu Astatke continues to have an extraordinary mobility and exposure to a wide range of musical sounds.