Kippie Moeketsi knew how to play the blues. But his blues was shaped by multiple musical influences.
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Though he lived hard and died young, Bird’s genre-busting style of sax playing ignited jazz’s bebop revolution.
Davis’s 1970 album Bitches Brew turned jazz on its head and paved the way for fusion. More recently, Radiohead cited it as a key influence.
The protest song “Malcolm’s gone” not only pays tribute to one of the most influential black leaders, but provocatively likens him, as a Muslim and so-called enemy of the state, to Jesus Christ.
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Lecturer of English. PhD Candidate in Afrofuturism and African Studies, University of the Western Cape
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Chair Professor of Musicology: Music and Media, Utrecht University
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Reader in Music, Politics and Society, Newcastle University
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Professor of Global Jazz Studies and Music, Herb Alpert School of Music, University of California, Los Angeles