Everyone knows the Elvis story, but what’s less known is the story of the Black women singers and musicians who forged the way.
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Makeba, who would have turned 90 on 4 March 2022, was a hugely influential artist and an icon of African liberation and identity.
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.
Pan-African festival marked the emergence of a post-imperial world
Music is an underutilised tool when it comes to steering curricula away from strictly Western and colonial models.
Explorations of form and sound in jazz are essentially political. They challenge the status quo in society by interrogating categories and barriers.
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Professor of French and Postcolonial Studies, University of Strathclyde
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Lecturer of English. PhD Candidate in Afrofuturism and African Studies, University of the Western Cape
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Senior Lecturer, South African College of Music, University of Cape Town
