Khawuleza - Miriam Makeba
by Andrew Lawless
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It’s one of those ironies, that I was given a collection of Miriam Makeba’s music just last week - that is to say, a week before the South African artist died, suffering a heart-attack after having sung at a solidarity concert for Italian author Roberto Saviano (who is living under escort, after the Neopolitan mafia issued a fatwa against him).
News of her death pushed me to listen, with a slight sense of guilt, more attentively. There’s a host of factors at play whenever we discover new music - and guilt isn’t necessarily a bad motivation.
And what music Makeba made.
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Tags: african music, political, protest songs, women songwriters, world music
