Take me to the Water Black Grooves (Free subscription) | 02/04/2010
Title: Soul Power Artists: James Brown, B. B. King, Bill Withers, the Spinners, Miriam Makeba, and more Format: DVD (region 1, Dolby, Widescreen, NTSC), Blu-ray Label: Sony Release date: January 26, 2010 - - Less a concert film than a time capsule of Black music in the 1970s In 1974 Muhammad Ali was scheduled to fight George Foreman in Kinshasa, Zaire to [...]
BobFromBrockley (Free subscription) | 01/31/2010
Talking of the southeastern corner of Greater Brockley , the Brockley Jack Film Club will be screening Soul Power on Monday 8 February: While the eyes of the world were on the Rumble in the Jungle, the ears of the world were on Zaire ‘74, a legendary music festival to accompany the epic boxing match between Mohammed Ali and George Foreman. Using spectacular archive footage, this exhilarating...
disdressed (Free subscription) | 01/31/2010
Here's what's happening at our house these days: Being inspired all of us: The Bauhaus show at MoMA. Two visits and two books later, we're all still talking and thinking about the show. Reading Me: The Pushcart War , by Jean Merrill: Remember this book? I'm enjoying re-reading it and catching the vocal inflections of the characters this time around. I keep thinking about the Essex Street Market in...
HicktownPress (Free subscription) | 01/18/2010
This girl was awesome! Just wanted to post something positive in light of all the negative news lately.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 01/15/2010
Õÿö is Beninese diva Angelique Kidjo's celebration of her roots and influences, from early icons such as Miriam Makeba and the Togolese singer Bella Bellow to Santana – whose "Samba Pa Ti" brought the Saturday-night dances of her teenage years to romantic conclusions – and soul and funk legends such as Otis Redding, Curtis Mayfield, Aretha Franklin and James...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 01/14/2010
Spectacular players and survivors to boot, Orchestre Poly-Rythmo have been going since 1968. But we've had to wait to see them make the trip to Europe Last September Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou played to a packed house at the Barbican Centre in London. There's nothing unusual about a sold-out gig, but what was unusual was that this was Poly-Rythmo's first ever gig in Europe. One thing that may...
garagecar (Free subscription) | 01/10/2010
New Honda Accord ads plays music from the Pata Pata, a South African dance Pata Pata by Miriam Makeba.
Keighley and Ilkley Liberal Democrat Website (Free subscription) | 01/08/2010
One of the reasons I joined the Young Liberals as a teenager in the mid-1970s, was the party's stance on South Africa and the condemnation of that stain upon humanity, apartheid, ironically pronounced "apart-hate" in Afrikaans. I remember the charismatic leader of the Stop the Seventy Tour Campaign, a young man, a Young Liberal, called Peter Hain. One of the things I learnt about was the...
Asterpix Interactive Video (Free subscription) | 01/01/2010
Malaika (Angele) is famous swahili song originally wrote by musician Fadhili William and internationally promoted mostly by Miriam Makeba Artist Website: www.madice.com Youtube uk.youtube.com Author: asterbot88 Keywords: bongo, flava, flavour, madice, malaika Added: January 01, 2010 00:00
Hidden Track (Free subscription) | 12/24/2009
8. Paul McCartney – Good Evening New York City Over the past decade, there’s been no shortage of Paul McCartney concert films. Between 2006’s The Space Within Us, 2003’s Paul is Live and 2002’s Back In The US, Macca puts out a DVD every time he completes a tour. While most of the films I’ve mentioned are pretty damn good, Good Evening New York City is the best of...
Bush Radio 89.5 fm Newsroom (Free subscription) | 12/12/2009
By Kim Saulse 12 December 2009 President Jacob Zuma says the national honours bestowed on 15 living and 14 posthumous recipients at the Union Buildings in Pretoria today are a reminder of the road the country has travelled. Zuma says before 1994, South Africans had no common identity. He said building a nation united in its diversity has not been an easy task, but the President says a good start has...
Dr. Parnassus Support Site (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Source: TM5 Network By Nick Clarke What’s in a list? Probably little more than an opportunity to show off, indulge in a some lazy cultural showboating and maybe even a chance to stir up a dash of barroom provocation. Perfect. So, in no particular order, here is my attempt to do just that. Any disagreements, disputes, outraged contempt, please feel free to comment….. 1. The White Ribbon...
Thoughts from Botswana (Free subscription) | 12/10/2009
Some months ago I had a pile of good luck and mixed in there was a secret. Well now the secret has been let out of the bag. (Click here for other finalists) My children's book, Aunt Lulu , is a finalist in the 2009 Sanlam Prize for Youth Literature. This year's theme was humour which makes it even more important to me. When I first started writing about six years ago I thought I would be the Motswana...
SoccerBlog.com (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Sadly, Miriam Makeba passed away a year ago. Having her on stage would have been a treat. However, she lives on this rendition of Pata Pata and countless other songs. Many have sung Makeba's beautiful "Malaika" but no one...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
The late much-celebrated singer Miriam Makeba and long jump silver medalist Kgotso Mokoena will be among the 29 South Africans and foreign nationals to receive National Orders from President Jacob Zuma next week.
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