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Kheswa & Her Martians: Meadowlands, Stolen Jazz
by James Nadal
There has not been a more poignant situation in jazz history than that of South Africa, where the pathetic and deplorable conditions of apartheid made “jazz style music" illegal amongst the native people. This of course made jazz musicians outlaws and heroes, and drove the music underground into the townships, where it thrived despite desperate attempts to eradicate it as some form of cultural virus. Vocalist Nonhlanhla Kheswa and Her Martians have revived and expanded the classic South ...
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Nowhere do the parallel cultural identities of South Africa and the United States—nowhere does our parallel racial ethos—speak to us more intriguingly than through jazz. The jazz vernacular has thrived in both countries thanks to a visceral connection to abstract truths and cultural realities owned in common by our two countries. If you are hip to the richness and renaissance of jazz in today's South Africa, or just curious, you will not want to ignore Nonhlanhla Kheswa, an actress and ...
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