![]() ![]() ![]() For the 1980s, they present some of the largest innovators and highlights of South African music, as Mahlathini and the Mahotella Queens provide a song, Lucky Dube's reggae is displayed, and Ladysmith Black Mambazo performs one of the signature songs from its collaboration with Paul Simon (albeit without Simon here). In the 1970s portion, the focus shifts a bit to group vocals, the ubiquitous mbaqanga, and some electronic beats showing up courtesy of Marari. Miriam Makeba is featured in her debut recording with the Manhattan Brothers, and a bit of ska slips in for a surprise, well before Lucky Dube's reggae. Then it kicks off the 1960s, focusing on the light vocals and pennywhistle jive prevalent in that decade. The album starts out with Elvis Costello and the Specials performing "Free Nelson Mandela," a 1984 rendition of an anthem that roamed the nation for the duration of Mandela's imprisonment. A compilation spanning the whole of contemporary South African music and its roots from the 1960s onward. ![]()
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