Music and Apartheid in South Africa

Tags:: Nkosi Sikelel' IAfrika South Africa Apartheid Hugh Masekela Anti-apartheid The Call Of South Africa Family Factory

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Some prominent South African musicians discuss the role of music and theatre in publicising black consciousness and anti-apartheid movements in their homeland. There are excellent performances of Nkosi sikelel' iAfrika by Family Factory and the Soweto String Quartet, and excerpts of interviews with Hugh Masekela, Michael Masote and others. Between 1948 and 1991, South Africa was a nation of diverse ethnicities and tribal groups, however a stringent series of laws and regulations ...