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Centuries of customs have changed in just decades. In the 1940s and '50s, radio brought the music of the outside world to much of Africa for the first time. In the 1970s, audiocassettes made it possible for Third World musicians to disseminate their own music quickly, cheaply and profitably. Acts...
Resistance's sales are strong overseas, where hate movements--and hate music--are on the upswing. Among the label's top markets: France, Greece, Poland and Germany--despite German hate-speech laws. The Resistance website reflects the label's internationalist bent, promoting a concert in Bologna, Italy, with hate-rockers...
Clearly, that can't be the whole story from the vast continent, and Harvard's Fogg Museum is filling in at least some of the gaps with a show of its diametric opposite: geometric abstraction, drawn from a distinguished and systematic collection made by Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, who lives...
The Continent Lights Up
For centuries, China has mined the faraway continent for its treasures. Zheng He himself loaded his ships with ambergris, elephant tusk and rhino horn. Despite Kenya's shoot-to-kill order for wildlife poachers, much of the ivory and rhino horn leaves Africa by air from its capital, Nairobi, or...