Article: Fela Kuti: Afrobeat ambassador.(Music rebels: dissident music then and now)(Brief Article)

Article: Miriam Makeba: Mama Afrika.(Music rebels: dissident ...
New Internationalist;  August 1, 2003 ;     600 words ...Miriam Makeba began her lifelong struggle at the age of two weeks when she served a six-month jail term with her mother. As a girl in South Africa, she worked as a domestic servant for white families. By her teens she had got involved in the progressive jazz scene and was pursuing a singing career.

Article: Dmitri Shostakovich: coded subversion.(Music rebels: ...
New Internationalist;  August 1, 2003 ;     611 words ...The prolific Soviet composer suffered the misfortune of spending his most creative years under the thumb of Joseph Stalin. But he also had a knack for navigating the murky waters of the Soviet state's brutal attempts to censor, destroy and homogenize creative life. Shostakovich was at times so well

Article: Victor Jara: bullets of song.(Music rebels: dissident ...
New Internationalist;  August 1, 2003 ;     604 words ...Drawing on the long tradition of the guitar-wielding troubadour, Chilean folksinger Victor Jara saw the 'guitar as gun', firing-off 'bullets of song' at oppressive military regimes and in support of popular struggles. Jara would play his songs about the plight of landless peasants and factory

Article: Mercedes Sosa: voice of Latin America.(Music rebels: ...
New Internationalist;  August 1, 2003 ;     554 words ...Though less of a songwriter, Mercedes Sosa has seduced millions with her powerful and emotional interpretations of others' songs. Always deeply political, Sosa was one of the founders of the Nueva Cancion (New Song) movement in Argentina. Together with Armando Tejado Gomez and others, she developed

Article: Remitti: rai's hard-drinking diva.(Music rebels: dissident ...
New Internationalist;  August 1, 2003 ;     631 words ...In Algeria during the 1920s, working-class Muslim women in the town of Oran rejected the prevailing values of men in power and combined street gang, French language, and populist poetry known as chir al-milhun, to form a musical movement which came to be known as rai. It wasn't long before

Article: Bob Marley: one world, one love.(Music rebels: dissident ...
New Internationalist;  August 1, 2003 ;     626 words ...While many are familiar with his posthumously over commercialized pop hits, Bob Marley's political works remain as fresh and relevant today as they did 30 years ago. Back then songs like 'Them Belly Full (But We Hungry 'Slave Driver', and 'War' defined his unique brand of 'rebel music' and fuelled

Article: Cui Jian: China's rebel maestro.(Music rebels: dissident ...
New Internationalist;  August 1, 2003 ;     602 words ...Trained as a classical musician--and former member of the Beijing Philharmonic Orchestra--Cui Jian is best known however for his courageous, openly political music. While playing trumpet in the Orchestra in the early 1980s, he was smitten by Western rock-and-roll music smuggled into the country.