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Abebe Zegeye

Maurice Vambe

Taylor&Francis

Mulatu was the first Ethiopian jazz music-maker to study abroad and thus be exposed to Western musical trends. When he returned to Addis Ababa he pursued his dream of drawing on the musical heritage of his homeland a heritage that has been buffeted by Ethiopia s turbulent history to produce a unique, compelling blend of music: Ethiopian sounds with a twist . In the late 1960 s, his Ethio jazz introduced, among other new ideas, the Afro-Latin soul where he played conga, piano, vibraphone and innovative musical arrangements. These included compositions of popular Ethio jazz music which took on a modern, funk, jazz-infused quality that soon had recording companies knocking at his door.

MULATU ASTATKE: The Making of Ethio Jazz

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

The Red Sea Press

<p>Sasinda and Siselapha (Still Here) is a fearless new interdisciplinary collection of contemporary criticism in the arts and humanities by scholars working on contemporary South Africa. Authors examine the period after the legal end of apartheid across genre and with an eye toward the study of culture. Derilene (Dee) Marco studies the cinematic legacies of Coetzee's Disgrace; Sharlene Khan explores the hateful art criticism that has become the norm in response to Black and women of color artists; Natalia Molebatsi theorises about the poetry scene and its aesthetics and ethics of healing across generations; Zethu Cakata examines the injuries caused by unenforced post 1994 language policies; Ashraf Jamal analyses how 'African' is African art and Bhavisha Panchia offers a provocative argument for the use of laughter, humour and play as anticolonial political ethical strategies; Peter Hudson scrutinises the colonial unconscious reproducing itself through capitalist property relations in th</p>

Sasinda And Siselapha (still Here): Black Feminist Approaches to Cultural Studies in South Africa's Twenty-Five Years Since 1994

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Derilene Dee Marco

Tiffany Willoughby-Herard

Africa World+press

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