Black Music
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Gabi Motuba and the sound of sacred resistance
Gabi Motuba’s music stretches beyond jazz, transforming grief, memory and resistance into a spiritual sonic language rooted in black life and liberation
Hearing Coltrane: Like watching a grown man learn how to speak
Watching several of Coltrane’s harmonic and melodic experiments at the cusp of the 1960s, Amiri Baraka emerges frightened, yet energised
The Lists: William Modisane’s ‘Blame Me on History’, Black Unity and Howlin’ Wolf
The Lists this week were compiled by Friday senior arts writer Kwanele Sosibo and contributor Lindokuhle Nkosi.
The Lists this week: Airspace, THEESatisfaction and Amiri Baraka’s Black Music
The Lists this week were compiled by Friday editor Milisuthando Bongela and senior arts writer Kwanele Sosibo.
The Lists: ‘Be glad that you are free’, Urban Village and Ibeyi
This week’s list was compiled by Milisuthando Bongela, Kwanele Sosibo and Lloyd Gedye.
A jumbled trajectory
The International Exhibition of Black Music at Museum Africa in Newtown, Johannesburg, is a real treat.