World Tour: South Africa
This week, hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot revisit their tour of South African music with journalist and author Lior Phillips.
World Tour: South Africa
Lior Phillips' recent book on South African music covers the effect of apartheid on musical creativity and how rhythm can unite across many structures that divide them. She also covers the appropriation of South African music and the positive and negative effects of that phenomenon.
Featured Songs:
- Black Coffee, "Izizwe (feat. Busi Mhlongo)," Have Another One, Universal, 2007
- Solomon Linda's Evening Birds, "Mbube," Mbube (Single), Gallotone, 1939
- Miriam Makeba, "Pata Pata," Pata Pata, Reprise, 1967
- Ladysmith Black Mambazo, "Nomathemba," Amabutho, Gallo, 1973
- Juluka, "Scatterlings of Africa," Scatterlings, Warner Bros., 1982
- Brenda Fassie, "Vuli Ndlela," Memeza, CCP, 1997
- Verböten, "Bodily Autonomy," Verböten, Inside Out, 2024
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