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THE BROTHER MOVES ON

$/he Who Feeds You… Owns You

NATIVE REBEL

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WHAT does protest music sound like in contemporary South Africa? Under apartheid it seemed a relatively straightforward affair: a call for the dismantling of an avowedly racist system. Even playing jazz – a music that implicitly challenged the strictures of racial segregation – became a subversive political act. It made South Africa the crucible for some of the most fiery and passionate jazz to emerge in the second half of the

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