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...Soul disc mainly features tracks that werereleased during the 60s R&B explosion, and whilemany of the tracks on here are great (check outthe thick, laid-back groove featured on southAfrican trumpeter Hugh Masekela's "Grazing in theGrass'" the best track on the disc--from theopening deeply grooved cowbell to Masekela'sinfectiously funky trumpet lines, this songgrooves hard) many others are uninspiring anduninteresting...
...events. The changes are generally approved by the African National Congress, South Africa's leading black political group. Earlier this year, the A.N.C. gave its blessing to the resumption of certain cultural contacts, paving the way for visits by such black artists as singer Miriam Makeba and trumpeter Hugh Masekela. Since then, South Africa has been invited to field a team at the 1992 Olympics...
Since television has tended to define the South Africa story in terms of violent conflict, South Africa Now tries to offer a broader perspective. The show routinely taps the antiapartheid vein that runs through the work of such South African artists as Hugh Masekela, Miriam Makeba and the country's hot multiracial band Savuka. Its more reportorial pieces have documented the detention and alleged torture of black children, analyzed the causes of black- on-black violence, aired footage of the war in Angola and exposed the activities of the White Wolves, a right-wing terrorist group. Critics charge that...
...Hector Mercado. At night the youngsters and other Iowa City dance devotees, attired in everything from sweatshirts to evening gowns and sneakers to wingtips, poured into Hancher Auditorium to see such Ailey staples as Flowers (a rock piece based on the life and death of Janis Joplin) and Masekela Langage (a militant, African-flavored work about the effect of violence on lives today). If there was a showstopper, it was Ailey's early (1960) Revelations, a scintillating fusion of jazz, folk and gospel, as well as a showcase for the art of Ailey's premiere danseuse Judith Jamison...
NEWPORT JAZZ AND FOLK FESTIVALS, Newport, R.I. Dionne Warwick, Wes Montgomery and Hugh Masekela, among others, will be on hand July 4-7. Janis Ian, Tim Buckley, Taj Mahal, Pete Seeger, Judy Collins and Arlo Guthrie will do the honors in the folk-and country-music department, July...