October 3, 2017

Program October 4, 2017

Gumboot (pictured above), a dance style originally developed by gold miners, is one of the true symbols of the black working class experience in South Africa.  Gumboot dancers stamp, slap, clap and kick their heels in perfect synchronization while wearing wellingtons.

Jazz musician Darius Brubeck described a gumboot dancer as "looking and sounding like Fred Astaire only with 10 pairs of shoes on!"  If you've seen African-American stepping, that's a dance derived from gumboot.

The Festival of South African Dance is bringing gumboot and pantsula (another South African vernacular dance style) to Richmond's Carpenter Theatre on Thursday.  On this week's program, you'll hear a gumboot performance recorded by Janet Topp Fargion, lead curator for world and traditional music at the British Library (my summary for this week's show is adapted from her liner notes).  You'll also hear maskanda, the music that usually accompanies gumboot.

Also this week: the music of Mdou Moctar, who's performing at the University of Richmond on Friday; Central African dance hits from the 70s and 80s; and Balkan folk-rock with the emphasis on "rock."

Podcast: http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/94252
All the podcasts: http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/series/Global+A+Go-Go


Artist | Country | Song | Recording | Label | Year

Oliver Lake | USA | Separation | Matador Of 1st & 1st | Passin' Thru | 1997
Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros | England UK | Global A Go-Go | Global A Go-Go | Hellcat | 2001

Mdou Moctar | Niger | Allagh N-Tarha | Sousoume Tamachek | Sahelsounds | 2017
Mdou Moctar | Niger | Issusahid Elwaname | Afelan | Sahelsounds | 2013

Ramon Goose | England UK | Wandering Sheikh | Long Road To Tiznit | Riverboat | 2017
Justin Adams & Juldeh Camara | England UK-The Gambia | Achu | Tell No Lies | Real World | 2009

Blanket Mkhize, Makhosonke Nyide & Zisebenzele Mbhele | South Africa | Gumboot 1996 | Gumboot Guitar: Zulu Street Guitar Music From South Africa | Topic | 1996
Shiyani Ngcobo | South Africa | uJesu | fRoots No. 21 | Southern Rag | 2003

Mthadeni | South Africa | Xenophobia | Xenophobia Vol. 1 | self-released | 2015
Busi Mhlongo | South Africa | We Baba Omncane | Urban Zulu | Melt 2000 | 1998
Juluka | South Africa | Umfazi Omdala | Ubuhle Bemvelo | Celluloid | 1982

Franco Et Sam Mangwana Avec Le TPOK Jazz | RD Congo | Cooperation | Odongo | Edipop Production | 1982

Moni Bile | Cameroon | Osi Tapa Lambo Lam | Osi Tapa Lambo Lam | Toure Jim's | 1982
Los Camaroes | Cameroon | Belon Sala | Resurrection Los | Analog Africa | 1979

Kottarashky & The Rain Dogs | Bulgaria | Lament | Cats, Dogs And Ghosts | Asphalt Tango | 2016
Kries | Croatia | Dodole | Selo Na Okuke / Village Tracks | Riverboat | 2017
The Zydepunks | USA | A La Orilla Del Mar | Live On WRIR 2008-08-08 | | 2008
Gogol Bordello | USA-Ukraine-Russia-China-Scotland UK-Ethiopia-Ecuador-Belarus | Saboteur Blues | Seekers And Finders | Cooking Vinyl | 2017

RotFront | Germany-Ukraine-Hungary | Everyone Speaks Russian | 17 Deutsche Tanze | GMO | 2014
Slobodan Salijevic Orkestar | Serbia | Kalasnjikov | Music Inspired and Taken From "Underground", a film by Emir Kusturica | Mercury | 1995

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