This week we hear some amazing prison songs, beginning with historical recordings from Louisiana and Mississippi recorded by Alan Lomax and Dr. Harry Oster in the late 1940’s and 50’s. Lomax captured ...
Zomba Prison Project, “I Will Not Stop Singing” (Six Degrees Records) A striking series of singing telegrams of regret, expectation, grief and warning from an earthly purgatory - or worse - the Zomba ...
The paper describes how party politics has appropriated performances of popular art to create and entrench oppressive political culture in Malawi. Performances of popular culture were already used ...
Initiation rites in Africa mark a transition for the initiates from one stage in life to another, and are aimed at imparting knowledge and moral values that help them embrace and ably perform their ...