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Cover StoryAnti-Apartheid Freedom Songs
In the struggle to resist oppression, performance played an important role, offering a vehicle for disguising subversive messages. “As much as there has been censorship,” Sipho Bavuma...
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Archive SpotlightInterview: Diane Thram of ILAM
The International Library of African Music is widely considered the oldest and largest repository of African music field recordings...
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From the FieldProud of Who I Am
Venda children’s musical skills resonate with issues of cultural maintenance, wellbeing, and music education...
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Tools for TeachingSouth Africa, Free At Last
These lesson segments seek to correlate African American civil rights material with South African anti-apartheid songs...
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video spotlightA South African Arts and Culture Championship on the Maunavhathu Military Base
Arts and Culture Championship Competition on Maunavhathu Military Base in Limpopo, South Africa, on September 9th, 2009. Recorded by Andrea Emberly. © Smithsonian Institution
Albums
From the Collection
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South African Freedom Songs
Various Artists
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This Land Is Mine: South African Freedom Songs
Various Artists
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A Long Time to Freedom
Ella Jenkins
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Afrikaans Children's Folksongs
Ora Dreyer
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With Voices Together We Sing
Pete Seeger
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African Songs and Rhythms For Children
Various Artists
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