New Series - BACKTALK - #1 - South African Music
This week kicks off a new series I’m calling BackTalk, wherein a guest and I converse on a topic we think deserves attention.
For the first BackTalk, I bring back Steve Erickson, music & film critic and music producer. We discuss South African music – the history, recent & current artists, its future, how the country’s politics & culture have shaped it, and how in the last 100 years or so it has had a particularly & surprisingly close relationship with US music.
Select South African music playlist (as suggested by Steve):
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfrAP6IL7DaXwKJp0cWR2C0hsV2eZMXQn
Recommended South African music compilations:
NEXT STOP…SOWETO (Volumes 1-4)
ZULU JIVE / UMBAQANGA
THE INDESTRUCTIBLE BEAT OF SOWETO (Volumes 1-6)
AMAPIANO NOW
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