The Voice of Africa (Remaster) Miriam Makeba

• 1 Nomthini 01:51
• 2 Willow Song (From Othello) 02:45
• 3 Langa More 02:20
• 4 Shihibolet 01:49
• 5 Tuson 01:58
• 6 Qhude 02:41
• 7 Mayibuye 02:45
• 8 Lovely Lies 02:42
• 9 Uyadela 02:30
• 10 Mamoriri 01:45
• 11 Le Fleuve 02:01
• 12 Come to Glory 02:30
• Total Runtime 27:37

Info for The Voice of Africa (Remaster)

Throughout her time as a concert singer in 1960s America Miriam Makeba was promoted as the embodied voice of a sonic, imagined Africa. Where her white audiences were attracted to the complete „otherness“ of her African blackness, her black American audiences saw themselves – or imagined versions of themselves – put on stage, and built solidarities between their own struggle and the struggle against apartheid. In this essay, I argue that the discourses that followed Makeba’s voice and body reflected the evolving attitudes of America towards Africa, and, through Africa, its contradictory relationship to its own African American citizens. Makeba played on these discourses to craft a political and musical identity in solidarity with black and diasporic causes. This identity, embodied in the persona of ‘‘Mama Africa,’’ allowed Makeba the flexibility to speak to and for her fellow (South) Africans with cultural authority. By joining the oft-opposed positions of „Africa“ and „The World,“ Makeba became what I’m calling an African Cosmopolitan.

Miriam Makeba, vocals
Morris Goldberg, alto saxophone
James Cleveland, trombone
Marvin Falcon, guitar
Samuel Brown, guitar
William Salter, bass
Auchee Lee, congas, drums Hugh Masekela, conductor, trumpet

Recorded 1964 at RCA Victor's Studio A, New York City
Recorded by Bob Simpson
Produced by Hugo & Luigi

Digitally remastered

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