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Makeba!
''Makeba!'' is a 1968 album by Miriam Makeba Zenzile Miriam Makeba (4 March 1932 – 9 November 2008), nicknamed Mama Africa, was a South African singer, songwriter, actress, and civil rights activist. Associated with musical genres including Afropop, jazz, and world music, she w .... Liner notes were written by A. B. Spellman who classed the album the “most African of her recent releases". Ruth Feldstein, ''How It Feels to Be Free: Black Women Entertainers and the Civil Rights'' 019971827X - 2013 "This album was, according to these liner notes, the “most African of her recent releases. Track listing #Umoya 3:05 #Uyadela 2:25 #Asilimanga 1:53 #Umquokozo 3:20 #U-Mngoma 2:30 #Emavungwini (Down In The Dumps) 2:09 #Iphi Ndilela 3:40 #Singa Madoda 2:45 #Magwala Ndini 2:35 #Sibongile 2:20 #Hamba Naye 2:31 References 1968 albums Miriam Makeba albums {{SouthAfrica-music-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pata Pata (album)
''Pata Pata'' is a 1967 album by Miriam Makeba. The album charted at number 74 in the US albums chart.Sylvia Lovina Chidi - The Greatest Black Achievers in History 2014 -- 1291909338 Page 129 "The Many Voices of Miriam Makeba (1960) (LP Kapp KL1274) Miriam Makeba (1960) (LP RCA LSP2267) The World of Miriam Makeba ... Pata (1967) (LP Reprise RS6274) #74" Most of the recordings were new, though Sivuca's "Maria Fulo" was included again, from the previous album ''All About Miriam ''All About Miriam'' is the 1966 ninth studio album of Miriam Makeba (LP Mercury 134029)Billboard - Nov 19, 1966 ALL ABOUT MIRIAM Miriam Makeba. Mercury MG 21095 (M); "... Not only does she excel in an almost-patented "Click Song," but also in s ...''. Track listing #" Pata Pata" – single #"Ha Po Zamani" #"What is Love" – single #"Maria Fulo" #"Yetentu Tizaleny" #"Click Song Number One" #"Ring Bell, Ring Bell" #"Jol'inkomo" #"West Wind" #"Saduva" #"A Piece of Ground" References {{Auth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keep Me In Mind (Miriam Makeba Album)
''Keep Me in Mind'' is a 1970 album by Miriam Makeba.The album juxtaposes Makeba's own compositions, and one "Lumumba" by her daughter Bongi, with songs by Stephen Stills, Van Morrison, Lennon-McCartney and John Fogerty.The Gramophone 1970- Volume 48 - Page 489 "Miriam Makeba is the wife of Black Power apostle Stokely Carmichael, and the beliefs and attitudes of the movement inevitably and understandably colour her singing in "Keep Me In Mind" (Reprise RSLP6381) with items such as Lumumba..." Track listing #"Lumumba" (Bongi Makeba) #" For What It's Worth" (Stephen Stills) #"Brand New Day" ( Van Morrison) #" I Shall Sing" (Van Morrison) #"Kulala" (Makeba) #" In My Life" ( Lennon-McCartney) #" Down On The Corner" (John Fogerty John Cameron Fogerty (born May 28, 1945) is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. Together with Doug Clifford, Stu Cook, and his brother Tom Fogerty Thomas Richard Fogerty (November 9, 1941 – September 6, 1990) was an American mu .. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miriam Makeba
Zenzile Miriam Makeba (4 March 1932 – 9 November 2008), nicknamed Mama Africa, was a South African singer, songwriter, actress, and civil rights activist. Associated with musical genres including Afropop, jazz, and world music, she was an advocate against apartheid and white-minority government in South Africa. Born in Johannesburg to Swazi and Xhosa parents, Makeba was forced to find employment as a child after the death of her father. She had a brief and allegedly abusive first marriage at the age of 17, gave birth to her only child in 1950, and survived breast cancer. Her vocal talent had been recognized when she was a child, and she began singing professionally in the 1950s, with the Cuban Brothers, the Manhattan Brothers, and an all-woman group, the Skylarks, performing a mixture of jazz, traditional African melodies, and Western popular music. In 1959, Makeba had a brief role in the anti-apartheid film '' Come Back, Africa'', which brought her international ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
African Music
Given the vastness of the African continent, its music is diverse, with regions and nations having many distinct musical traditions. African music includes the genres amapiano, Jùjú, Fuji, Afrobeat, Highlife, Makossa, Kizomba, and others. The music and dance of the African diaspora, formed to varying degrees on African musical traditions, include American music like Dixieland jazz, blues, jazz, and many Caribbean genres, such as calypso (see kaiso) and soca. Latin American music genres such as cumbia, conga, rumba, son cubano, salsa music, bomba, samba and zouk were founded on the music of enslaved Africans, and have in turn influenced African popular music. Like the music of Asia, India and the Middle East, it is a highly rhythmic music. The complex rhythmic patterns often involving one rhythm played against another to create a polyrhythm. The most common polyrhythm plays three beats on top of two, like a triplet played against straight notes. Sub-S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruth Feldstein
Ruth Sara Feldstein is an American historian with research interests in United States history; her work focuses on 20th-century culture and politics; women's and gender history; and African American history. Currently she is professor of history and American studies at Rutgers University.Profile: Ruth Feldstein at Rutgers"Ruth Feldstein" speaker profile at the Education B.A. in Arts (1986) from the |
1968 Albums
The year was highlighted by Protests of 1968, protests and other unrests that occurred worldwide. Events January–February * January 5 – "Prague Spring": Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. * January 10 – John Gorton is sworn in as 19th Prime Minister of Australia, taking over from John McEwen after being 1968 Liberal Party of Australia leadership election, elected leader of the Liberal Party of Australia, Liberal Party the previous day, following the disappearance of Harold Holt. Gorton becomes the only Australian Senate, Senator to become Prime Minister, though he immediately transfers to the Australian House of Representatives, House of Representatives through the 1968 Higgins by-election in Holt's vacant seat. * January 15 – The 1968 Belice earthquake in Sicily kills 380 and injures around 1,000. * January 21 ** Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh – One of the most publicized and controversial battles of the war ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
