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How the ‘Zed Beats’ music movement give Zambians back their voice

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How the ‘Zed Beats’ music movement give Zambians back their voice

[ad_1] Zed Beats is a music movement that evolved in the late 1980s when young producers started using computers to blend western music with local languages and flavour. Today it’s an umbrella term for popular urban music in Zambia. Musician and academic Mathew Tembo is a Zed Beats specialist. His PhD is on its history, … Read more

Anurag Banerjee on his book on Meghalaya’s music scene

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Anurag Banerjee on his book on Meghalaya’s music scene

[ad_1] I met Anurag Banerjee just after his friend’s poetry reading at the Shillong Literature Festival. He has a kind of easy, affable presence that draws interruptions: he left one friend to walk with me, was stopped mid-sentence by another during our conversation, and ran into someone else as soon as we finished. In a … Read more