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Jazz Memory Activism Dialogues

January 2, 2024 0Comments 0Likes

One thing of course, that is right at hand is to conduct oral histories with the individuals who have played such an important role in the establishment of the movement. Audio technology or video technology could build a small oral history archive around Jazz as a movement for change.

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The Healing Power of Music

November 29, 2023 0Comments 0Likes

In the video message to South African Jürgen Leinhos mentions “Stolpersteine” (stumbling stones), an initiative that “planted” thousands of stones with the names of Jewish people carved on it who were expelled from their houses and apartments and deported and killed. You can find those stones all over now – also in smaller towns such as…

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Uniting the inxiles and exiles

November 3, 2023 0Comments 0Likes

Edit Column Edit Text Editor Since the early 1960s South African jazz musicians in exile together with their international counterparts have used the freedom of South African jazz to not only strongly influence European jazz music but also fight the struggle against apartheid. Their sacrifices made a significant contribution to the freedom and opportunities we…

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Art Centres a key to Rural Advancement

July 25, 2023 0Comments 0Likes

Establishing a system and chain of art academies in the Eastern Cape is a core focus of Professor Peggy Luswazi. Her blueprint is a process of rural industrialisation, based on naturally available resources. This could create job opportunities and contribute to arrest the massive brain drain of thousands from rural areas to find no employment…

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JAA 23 Beyond Exile : Archive

May 12, 2023 0Comments 1Like

BEYOND EXILE and the international commitment and dedication to human excellence and progress.

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Culture is a wheel of understanding

May 12, 2019 0Comments 8Likes

Culture is a wheel of understanding one another or telling a story that cannot otherwise be told as a collective. Due to the parallel streams of oppression, suppression and depression, South African exiles and their European counterparts worked tirelessly to promote the cause of a long-term and sustainable freedom, both musically and politically. South Africa…

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Jazz Wins a presidential direction

May 12, 2019 0Comments 5Likes

South Africa and Germany share inglorious, burdening experiences in their history. The apartheid system in South Africa was inspired in essential points by the race laws of the National Socialists in Germany. And, as a result, the experiences of exile that the cultural avant-garde of both countries went through. Structurally similar is also the ignoring…

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JAA is first of all a series of concerts organized by both musicians and political/cultural activists. It is searching for allies and supporters and remains a free association of people dedicated to the cause of freedom and individual and social solidarity and responsibility.

Intercultural working methodology

May 12, 2019 0Comments 0Likes