South African Music
This week, hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot talk with journalist and author Lior Phillips about the rich and vibrant popular music of South Africa.
South African Music
Lior Phillips' recent book on South African music covers the effect of apartheid on musical creativity and how rhythm can unite across many structures that divide them. She also covers the appropriation of South African music and the positive and negative effects of that phenomenon.
Featured Songs:
- Black Coffee, "Izizwe (feat. Busi Mhlongo)," Have Another One, Universal, 2007
- The Beatles, "With A Little Help From My Friends," Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Parlophone, 1967
- Solomon Linda's Evening Birds, "Mbube," Mbube (Single), Gallotone, 1939
- Miriam Makeba, "Pata Pata," Pata Pata, Reprise, 1967
- Ladysmith Black Mambazo, "Nomathemba," Amabutho, Gallo, 1973
- Juluka, "Scatterlings of Africa," Scatterlings, Warner Bros., 1982
- Brenda Fassie, "Vuli Ndlela," Memeza, CCP, 1997
- Dolly Parton, "9 To 5," 9 to 5 and Odd Jobs, RCA Victor, 1980
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