Collection:Music and culture as forms of resistance×
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Audio and VideoInteraction at Community Art Project Cape Town 1982
The video was done in 1982 at the Community Arts Project. The opening speaker was Peter Clarke. The reggae band was Roots, led by Ernie…
ArticlePaul Simon’s Graceland - Days of wonder and miracles by Yunus Momoniat
When Paul Simon embarked on a project to draw inspiration from South African musicians, he set out on a perilous obstacle course that would…
ArticleWhat lost photos of Blue Notes say about South Africa’s jazz history by Lindelwa Dalamba , 14 October 2019
In 1964 a young South African student and photography enthusiast, Norman Owen-Smith, took his Leica camera along to a jazz concert at the…
ArticleRemembering the Blue Notes: South Africa’s first generation of free jazz by Gwen Ansell, 11 September 2017
“We were all kind of rebels,” drummer Louis Tebogo Moholo-Moholo recalls, “so, like birds of a feather, [we] flocked together.” He’s…