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Each booklet in the Bio Basics Series gives information describing
the controversy of the issue and the implications for Christians
and the church. The series addresses each concern with answers that
will honor God and protect a humanity created in His image. Written
from an evangelical Christian perspective, these resources should
be read by both Christians and non-Christians as they address
contemporary issues often discussed in the media.
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There had always been music along the banks of the Congo
River-lutes and drums, the myriad instruments handed down from
ancestors. But when Joseph Kabasele and his African Jazz went chop
for chop with O.K. Jazz and Bantous de la Capitale, music in Africa
would never be the same. A sultry rumba washed in relentless waves
across new nations springing up below the Sahara. The Western press
would dub the sound soukous or rumba rock; most of Africa called in
Congo music. Born in Kinshasa and Brazzaville at the end of World
War II, Congon music matured as Africans fought to consolidate
their hard-won independence. In addition to great musicians-Franco,
Essous, Abeti, Tabu Ley, and youth bands like Zaiko Langa Langa-the
cast of characters includes the conniving King Leopold II, the
martyred Patrice Lumumba, corrupt dictator Mobutu Sese Seko,
military strongman Denis Sassou Nguesso, heavyweight boxing champs
George Foreman and Muhammad Ali, along with a Belgian baron and a
clutch of enterprising Greek expatriates who pioneered the
Congolese recording industry. Rumba on the River presents a
snapshot of an era when the currents of tradition and modernization
collided along the banks of the Congo. It is the story of twin
capitals engulfed in political struggle and the vibrant new music
that flowered amidst the ferment. For more information on the book,
visit its other online home at rumbaontheriver.com-an impressive
resource.
Based on exclusive interviews, "Breakout" tells the often riveting
personal stories of fourteen popular musicians--some well known,
others not--from Zaire, Ghana, Nigeria and Sierra Leone. The first
book on African pop music to look closely at the lives of the
musicians themselves, "Breakout" deals with four African musical
genres: "soukous, highlife, afro-beat," and "palm wine."
Amid Africa's deepening economic and political crises of the last
two decades, African musicians who developed these genres faced the
need to cross cultural boundaries, or "break out," and achieve a
hit in the international marketplace. Challenging conventional
assumptions, Gary Stewart demonstrates for the first time the true
dimensions of this struggle to create music that will qualify as
both an authentic cultural expression and an export commodity. From
accounts of the outrageous Fela, who snipes at African leaders and
recounts his days with Isis in ancient Egypt, to S. E. Rogie, who
lurches from the pinnacle of stardom in West Africa to delivering
pizzas in California, to Olatunji, who finds new life with the
Grateful Dead, these are the stories of Africans straddling
traditional life and an encroaching modernity--and also the stories
of third world musicians surmounting political and economic chaos
at home and carrying their music to a world dominated by Western
cultural and economic power.
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