What’s the word? Sister/woman have you heard from #Manenberg?
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To honor the June 16, 1976 Soweto Uprising, aka Youth Day, the #Rock_Girls are on a five-day road trip, from Manenberg to Port Elizabeth. These girls embody all that.....
#jazz in #Cape_Town
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In Cape Town jazz here is not just jazz. It’s a whole lot more. For one, it is a dance style that continues to be the predominant feature of successive generations of #Cape_Flats families. Almost similar to what is called salsa in the Latino communities, jazzing on the Cape Flats is now somewhat of a tradition. And I use tradition in a deliberate way, to think about inheritances of practices that are shared, dynamic and made and remade anew, but always defined also by what is continued as it is passed down.
#MUSIC #Abdullah_Ibrahim #Basil_Coetzee #Goema #Hugh_Masekela #Jazz_Epistles #Manenberg #Manhattan_Brothers #Marabi #Miriam_Makeba #Robbie_Jansen