About: Afro fusion

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South African dance genre and musical genre

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  • Güney Afrika'ya özgü müzik türü (tr)
  • South African dance genre and musical genre (en)
  • gènere de dansa Sud Africà e musica (ca)
  • género de danza sudafricana y musical (es)
  • Uhlobo lomdanso waseNingizimu Afrika, uhlobo lwethemu kanye nenhlanganisela isitayela somculo (xh)
  • Uhlobo lomdanso waseNingizimu Afrika, uhlobo lwethemu kanye nenhlanganisela isitayela somculo (zu)
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  • -1980.0 (dbd:second)
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  • Afro fusion (en)
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  • (en)
  • Afrofusion (en)
  • afro-fusion (en)
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  • 0001-10-16 (xsd:gMonthDay)
  • 0001-12-10 (xsd:gMonthDay)
  • Music and Digital Media A planetary anthropology (en)
  • TimesLIVE, 2014 (en)
  • Beyond Memory Recording the History, Moments and Memories of South African Music, 2008 (en)
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  • The Alliance leadership viewed supporting Afro fusion as part of their institution's mission to promote 'artistic and cultural diversity' (en)
  • Having established arguably South Africa's most important contemporary dance company in 1978 from the garage at her home in Victory Park – long before it was fashionable or even legal to host black and white dancers on the same stage – Glasser unequivocally changed the nature of dance in South Africa. (en)
  • Primarily, protest musicians were united in a clear and simple mission— to end apartheid. They acknowledged the existence of influential voices across time, each initiating a seminal wave of protest with a suitable, alternative genre or style. Starting from within the camp of the defranchised these dissenting voices were joined by troubadours and folk musicians of the more progressive elite, such as the Lindberg-duo, Jeremy Taylor, and later, the highly-censored Roger Lucey. (en)
  • Some arrive with just a suitcase. Then in three months they're on a flight to France to perform. We can do six productions in a month. They have to keep up the pace. We don't choose dancers. Dancers choose themselves. (en)
  • ...Hugh Masekela on trumpet; Jonas Gwangwa on trombone;Kippie Moeketsi on saxophone, as well as Dolly Rathebe and Miriam Makeba's vocal prowess they ushered in an era of a new afro fusion sound... (en)
  • Glasser pioneered what has come to be called Afrofusion, bringing together African dance and Western dance. She pursued this vision from the company's very beginnings in 1978. Through her work and that of the company's young choreographers and dancers, the Afrofusion idiom now pervades South African dance. (en)
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  • "Chapter Fourteen – Joy or Jazz" (en)
  • "Dance: Dancing with the dead" (en)
  • "Developing Afro-fusion" (en)
  • "In a dance state" (en)
  • "Sylvia Glasser dances to her own drum" (en)
  • "The Routledge History of Social Protest in Popular Music", 2013 (en)
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  • Afro fusion (en)
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