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The Beat Goes (Back) On!
We are very pleased and proud to announce a new feature at Afropop.org : reprints of selected articles from the late, lamented ma...
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- CC Smith, editor/publisher/journalist for The Beat Magazine, public radio DJ and Africanist for 29 years. Since the closing of The Beat in 2009, I am now working with Afropop.org as Editor at Large, and also manager for Samba Mapangala and Orchestra Virunga.
From Steve Heilig ("All Over the Map" columnist): I only saw him perform live once, years ago at the Sierra Nevada World Music Fest. He was using a cane and sat on a stool for the whole set, with a microphone set in front of him. Eyes closed, veteran roots band churning behind him, he chanted out song after song, and the crowd was a small sea of reverent, stunned, upturned faces, paying rapt attention. More than any set I recall, it was like watching some prophet, down from the mountain or in from the desert, delivering sermons to the masses. Unforgettable.
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