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The Cape Town Goema Orchestra and the birth of a new vision for South African music.
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Mama Goema - A documentary film exploring Cape Town's most representative music genre.
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Category Archives: Editorial
Xenophobia :: Fear of Zen
The word “xenophobia” is fraught with contradiction. It has kidnapped Zen from the realm of enlightenment and tossed it into a world of fear. A word that belongs to the shortest chapter in the dictionary, xenophobia is not only directed … Continue reading
On Spud (Pt. I) :: Apple of the Earth
Way back in the 1440s, the word “spud” was used to describe a digging instrument used to inter the seedling of a plant that yielded a starchy tuber. By 1845, the word was used to describe the starchy tuber itself. … Continue reading
Michel Foucault :: The Unequal Gaze
It’s the mid-70s and a French philosopher and historian by the name of Michel Foucault (15 October 1926-25 June 1984) has just hammered out a book concerning the birth of the prison system. The work tracks the evolution of the … Continue reading
Kurt Vonnegut :: Honorary Citizen
A profoundly South African sign that commuters pass as they shuffle onto Metrorail trains. Kurt Vonnegut (11 November 1922-11 April 2007) would have approved. The American novelist and social commentator contemplated the mess that dangerous weapons make during his involvement … Continue reading
Zinedine Zidane :: Head of God
Only the World Cup is capable of arousing authentic global collective consciousness. It’s an event that every media-consuming entity is sucked into. Every four years, for just one month, the World Cup infiltrates the broadest possible sweep of hearts and … Continue reading
Miriam Makeba :: Speaking in Tongues
It’s September in the year 1979. Five months have past since the Last King of Scotland fled Kampala and Emperor Bokassa has just been extracted from the Central African Republic. The President of Equatorial Guinea is being tried for genocide … Continue reading
Koos Kombuis :: Sweet Fanny Adams
Profoundly South African singer-songwriter Koos Kombuis stirred up a storm in 2006 with a whimsical tune entitled “Fokkol.” The free download sapped the width of thousands of broadbands from Worcester to Wollongong. The song paints a bleak picture of South … Continue reading