Word: stoicism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clicks sound like the popping of champagne corks. Though she tries many styles, she never sings the Afrikaaner songs of white South Africa ("When Afrikaaners sing in my language," she says, "then I will sing in theirs"). But whatever mood she assumes, Miriam Makeba maintains a simple and primitive stoicism that sets her sharply apart from the emotional, often artificial style of American Negro singers...