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		<title>Hugh Masekela &#8211; Masekela (1968)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:22:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[robert]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I have a very special post for you, a rare recording from Hugh Masekela. Masekela has never shied from speaking out for justice, and this recording, made in the U$ during a rebellious 1968, bristles with outrage from its first track, &#8220;Mace and Grenades.&#8221; The record sleeve is trashed, but the sound quality of this [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Endangered Blogging</title>
		<link>http://rhythmconnection.org/?p=777</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:12:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[robert]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[99%]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the last ten days, three of the blogs I have followed &#8211; and kept listed at the bottom of the left column on my other site &#8211; have been crippled or deleted by service providers. There seems to be a sudden, worldwide effort to implement dramatic suppression of internet freedom. It appears that the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Soul Brothers &#8211; Jive Explosion (1988)</title>
		<link>http://rhythmconnection.org/?p=780</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:20:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[robert]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Soul Brothers are one of the most successful bands in South African history, having sold millions of records and CDs in their country alone. Rising from humble, working class roots in the early 1970s, David Masondo, Zenzele &#8220;Zakes&#8221; Mchunu and Tuza Mthethwa created a particularly infectious style of mbaqanga by fusing soul-influenced vocals with township jive. While Mosondo&#8217;s iconic, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Vijana Jazz &#8211; The Koka Koka Sex Battalion</title>
		<link>http://rhythmconnection.org/?p=798</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[robert]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tanzania]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Whenever there is a rumor of a new East African collection being put together by Doug Paterson for Sterns, I wait in anticipation. I have never been disappointed and usually am completely blown away by the music he uncovers. A while ago I reviewed a killer release of music from Issa Juma and Super Wanyika on another site. Now [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Lost in Etherland</title>
		<link>http://rhythmconnection.org/?p=758</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 02:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[robert]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This site has languished for months. It&#8217;s not that there has been nothing to write about; with everything going on in the Arab world and analogous developments in the U.S., there is a TON I have started writing, at least in my mind if not here or on paper. The truth is I have been [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The African Beat Archive</title>
		<link>http://rhythmconnection.org/?p=743</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 18:24:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[robert]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I had the privilege to write a column about African music in The Beat magazine for eight years, from 1995 to 2003, until life’s exigencies prevented me from writing. The Beat was the world-class magazine covering &#8220;world music&#8221; for 28 years. As time allows, I will place that column&#8217;s archive on this site, improving on its [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Vinyl Thoughts: Feeding an Obsession</title>
		<link>http://rhythmconnection.org/?p=635</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 22:06:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[robert]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The record arrived in the mail, carefully packed by an Ebay merchant in Portugal. I sighed with relief and delight: A twenty year quest had ended, and a terrible thirst was quenched – for the moment! I know precisely when my African music obsession began. I was living in a country at war, writing a [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Kenyan Gold: Issa Juma and Super Wanyika Stars</title>
		<link>http://rhythmconnection.org/?p=519</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 20:51:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[robert]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[rumba]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At a time when globalization has led to increasingly homogenized &#8220;world&#8221; music, a return to the post-colonial, golden age of African music can be an exciting experience. Many classic African pop recordings are surfacing on the internet, as a few enthusiasts search dustbins throughout Europe and African for discarded or forgotten vinyl records, and then [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Endangered Music</title>
		<link>http://rhythmconnection.org/?p=490</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 00:57:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[robert]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Akendengue]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[digital]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iTunes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MP3]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Not so long ago I was a columnist for a great magazine devoted to &#8220;world music,&#8221; called The Beat.  I put world music in quotes because it was a marketing phrase coined in the early 1980s to cope with the explosion of music being published from Africa to the Caribbean to Bulgaria. It&#8217;s a nearly [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Mérida, la música, and life</title>
		<link>http://rhythmconnection.org/?p=84</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 23:06:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[robert]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico 2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Merida]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yucatan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Valladolid was hard to leave, but I needed and wanted to shed the car that seems both useful and a hindrance. Once again I entered the cuota highway, but this time with a purpose. I had to get to Mérida in a hurry to make the rental deadline, and with almost no cars on the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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