Miriam Makeba - The Voice of Africa (2016) [Hi-Res]
BAND/ARTIST: Miriam Makeba
- Title: The Voice of Africa
- Year Of Release: 1964; 2016
- Label: RCA - Legacy
- Genre: World, Folk, African pop
- Quality: 16-bit/44.1kHz FLAC; 24-bit/96kHz FLAC
- Total Time: 28:13 min
- Total Size: 599 MB
- WebSite: Album Preview
Info for The Voice of Africa (Remaster)
Throughout her time as a concert singer in 1960s America Miriam Makeba was promoted as the embodied voice of a sonic, imagined Africa. Where her white audiences were attracted to the complete „otherness“ of her African blackness, her black American audiences saw themselves – or imagined versions of themselves – put on stage, and built solidarities between their own struggle and the struggle against apartheid. In this essay, I argue that the discourses that followed Makeba’s voice and body reflected the evolving attitudes of America towards Africa, and, through Africa, its contradictory relationship to its own African American citizens. Makeba played on these discourses to craft a political and musical identity in solidarity with black and diasporic causes. This identity, embodied in the persona of ‘‘Mama Africa,’’ allowed Makeba the flexibility to speak to and for her fellow (South) Africans with cultural authority. By joining the oft-opposed positions of „Africa“ and „The World,“ Makeba became what I’m calling an African Cosmopolitan.
Miriam Makeba, vocals
Morris Goldberg, alto saxophone
James Cleveland, trombone
Marvin Falcon, guitar
Samuel Brown, guitar
William Salter, bass
Auchee Lee, congas, drums Hugh Masekela, conductor, trumpet
Recorded 1964 at RCA Victor's Studio A, New York City
Recorded by Bob Simpson
Produced by Hugo & Luigi
Digitally remastered
Tracklist:
01. Miriam Makeba - Nomthini (1:55)
02. Miriam Makeba - Willow Song (From "Othello") (2:50)
03. Miriam Makeba - Langa More (2:19)
04. Miriam Makeba - Shihibolet (1:53)
05. Miriam Makeba - Tuson (2:00)
06. Miriam Makeba - Qhude (2:44)
07. Miriam Makeba - Mayibuye (2:51)
08. Miriam Makeba - Lovely Lies (2:45)
09. Miriam Makeba - Uyadela (2:32)
10. Miriam Makeba - Mamoriri (1:49)
11. Miriam Makeba - Le Fleuve (2:06)
12. Miriam Makeba - Come to Glory (2:30)
Throughout her time as a concert singer in 1960s America Miriam Makeba was promoted as the embodied voice of a sonic, imagined Africa. Where her white audiences were attracted to the complete „otherness“ of her African blackness, her black American audiences saw themselves – or imagined versions of themselves – put on stage, and built solidarities between their own struggle and the struggle against apartheid. In this essay, I argue that the discourses that followed Makeba’s voice and body reflected the evolving attitudes of America towards Africa, and, through Africa, its contradictory relationship to its own African American citizens. Makeba played on these discourses to craft a political and musical identity in solidarity with black and diasporic causes. This identity, embodied in the persona of ‘‘Mama Africa,’’ allowed Makeba the flexibility to speak to and for her fellow (South) Africans with cultural authority. By joining the oft-opposed positions of „Africa“ and „The World,“ Makeba became what I’m calling an African Cosmopolitan.
Miriam Makeba, vocals
Morris Goldberg, alto saxophone
James Cleveland, trombone
Marvin Falcon, guitar
Samuel Brown, guitar
William Salter, bass
Auchee Lee, congas, drums Hugh Masekela, conductor, trumpet
Recorded 1964 at RCA Victor's Studio A, New York City
Recorded by Bob Simpson
Produced by Hugo & Luigi
Digitally remastered
Tracklist:
01. Miriam Makeba - Nomthini (1:55)
02. Miriam Makeba - Willow Song (From "Othello") (2:50)
03. Miriam Makeba - Langa More (2:19)
04. Miriam Makeba - Shihibolet (1:53)
05. Miriam Makeba - Tuson (2:00)
06. Miriam Makeba - Qhude (2:44)
07. Miriam Makeba - Mayibuye (2:51)
08. Miriam Makeba - Lovely Lies (2:45)
09. Miriam Makeba - Uyadela (2:32)
10. Miriam Makeba - Mamoriri (1:49)
11. Miriam Makeba - Le Fleuve (2:06)
12. Miriam Makeba - Come to Glory (2:30)
Pop | World | FLAC / APE | HD & Vinyl
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