African music

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• CD Review: Tommy T – The Prester John Sessions

  
  Lucid Culture — Authority: 120
  Prester John was a mythical medieval contradiction in terms, a benign despot whose apocryphal, abundant kingdom sparked many fruitless expeditions to locate it. One popular theory at the time was that it was in Ethiopia. Centuries later, Ethiopian-born Gogol Bordello bassist Tommy T has used the myth as a ...
  8 hours ago

• The music beat in Dakar: Another version of West Africa

  
  Gadling — Authority: 701
  Filed under: Arts and Culture , Festivals and Events , Stories , Africa , Video , Nightlife Grants series "Into Dakar" brought back memories of my own travels there. For another intimate look into life in Dakar , check out, " The Songs of Senegal " a recent article in the New York Times. For me, ...
  6 days ago

• SA’s hottest bands tour with the Nokia Comes With Music Party Bus

  
  Moral Fibre Magazine — Authority: 436
  Nokia will be taking the South African coast by storm this festive season with the launch of the Nokia Comes with Music Party Bus. Beach-goers down South Africa’s South Coast will be serenaded by some of South Africa’s hottest bands on tour with the Nokia Comes with Music road show.  The tour will kick off in ...
  1 week ago

• John Storm Roberts, scholar of world music, 73

  
  InfiniteBody — Authority: 132
  John Storm Roberts, World-Music Scholar, Dies at 73 by Margalit Fox , The New York Times ,  December 10, 2009 InfiniteBodyhttp://infinitebody.blogspot.com
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• An interview with Hot Water

  
  Moral Fibre Magazine — Authority: 436
  South African singer, song-writer, guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, facilitator and band leader, Donovan Copley, has a talent not only for creating uplifting and authentic South African music…he has the knack for bringing together a consistently evolving group of musicians from very diverse backgrounds with an ...
  1 week ago

• MK 2010 Awards Nominees

  
  Moral Fibre Magazine — Authority: 436
  South Africa’s music scene has come along way from the grimy bars on Umbilo, in Bellville and the Vale. The list below, from MK’s 2010 music awards is testament to the talent on show in South Africa. Without further ado Moral Fibre Magazine brings you the nominations for the MK Awards 2010. Don’t forget to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Noel

  
  AnimaMundi — Authority: 103
  This is the way they roll in Guadeloupe-Martinique for the holidaze. Download 05 Noèl o péyi
  2 weeks ago

• Fela!

  
  Life Upon the Sacred Stage — Authority: 421
  Bill T. Jones should start writing his Tony acceptance speech for best choreography. Nothing else could come close to his electric dancing in Fela! , the new musical about the life of legendary African composer and performer Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, which has transferred to Broadway’s Eugene ONeill Theatre following ...
  2 weeks ago

• Musical freedom comes at a price

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 966
  Without the potent inspiration of protest, South African music may have lost its edge.
  2 weeks ago

• Legends of Benin> Legends of the Fall>I Am Legend >John Legend

  
  Passion of the Weiss — Authority: 575
  Thanksgiving, blah, blah, blah. Inevitably, there are things that we are grateful for, but blogs are not the ideal forum to fulminate. Or maybe they are. Tucker Max had a movie made based on his sordid chicanery. Diablo Cody turned a season of stripping into stardom. Starting in January of 2010, Passion of the Weiss ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Spread of Nigerian Fuzz Funk

  
  Passion of the Weiss — Authority: 575
  As though to justify my recent rave about their archival efforts, Now-Again strikes uh, again, with the announcement of the Nigerian Fuzz-Funk anthology, a compilation that promises to succeed in being both categorically awesome and sounding like the name of a rare Equatorial disease. Partnering up with Uchenna ...
  4 weeks ago

• Dave McMillan – Trying to find Rewind

  
  Burgo's Music Blog - It's a wonderful life, this life of music — Authority: 109
  So, if you’ve read my “ 30 South African Bands you need to hear! ” post – and it seems like a lot of you are – you would have noticed my admiration for Durban muso, Dave McMillan . Dave was, quite literally, the reason I picked up a guitar in the first place, and the reason for me seeing the beauty music ...
  4 weeks ago

• Jay-Z And Will & Jada Pinkett Smith to Present Fela! on Broadway

  
  The Urban Music Scene: News ~ New Releases — Authority: 135
  JAY-Z AND WILL & JADA PINKETT SMITH TO PRESENT FELA! ON BROADWAY Jay-Zand Will & Jada Pinkett Smith have enthusiastically joined theproducing team of Fela!, the new Broadway musical based on the life andmusic of African composer and performer Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, markingthe first Broadway production ...
  4 weeks ago

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