Minutes of Publishing and Research Unit
- ZA MEDU MEDU-1-1.1-1.1.3-1.1.3.10
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- 4 November 1982
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Minutes of Publishing and Research Unit
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Minutes of the meeting between Executive and Shakwe
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Musicians are part of the people
In this paper, Barry Gilder argues that it is impossible for musicians to be separate from the struggle against Apartheid in South Africa. He suggests that musicians have two options; to be part of the struggle against Apartheid as "revolutionaries who make music" or as musicians who participate in the "revolution as musicians". Musicians can fight Apartheid through holding benefit concerts, creating their own record labels, organising into a collective musical organisation and boycotting the Apartheid state. These methods of resistance and artistic expression, the author argues, will all contribute to a necessary and genuinely popular and progressive musical culture.
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Naledi Writers' Workshop meeting
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Document describes the meeting of the Naledi Writers Workshop.
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Neccessity of a National Art for Liberation
Art should be a cognitive process, rather than transfer of skills and technique. In the context of an artistic culture which is afflicted by oppression and exploitation, art must be a process which people can relate to, identify with and be a part of. The article argues that art must teach people, "in the most vivid and imaginative ways ... how to take control of their own experience and observations" and how to link these to a just and free society.
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Newsletter 1979, December, Vol. 1, No. 4
Part of 3-MEDU NEWSLETTERS
Newsletter has interview section of Mosa Jonas Gwangwa who is a composer, musician and member of Medu Art Ensemble. He is interviewed by Medu project co-ordinator Mongane Serote. Jonas Gwangwa shares his background from his early childhood when his parents arrived at Orlando in 1931. Furthermore, he talks about his musical background that is influenced by his musical family.
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