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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>
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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[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>
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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>
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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>Bobbing Around Off Nome</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[robert]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Birds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chukchi Sea]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Alaskan Enterprise bobs on unsettled seas outside the harbor at Nome, waiting for permission to dock. I use the term &#8216;harbor&#8217; loosely, for how can something be called a harbor when it is completely open to gales from a particular direction? We spent last night waiting for the wind and seas to change because [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Through The Bering Strait</title>
		<link>http://rhythmconnection.org/?p=622</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 19:32:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[robert]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Birds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sarah Palin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Alaskan Enterprise sits broadside to the modest wind, sunshine pouring in through the windows of the bridge. We are off the coast of Kotzebue, making an unscheduled stop to pick up crucial sampling equipment that was shipped overnight from Seattle, to replace a faulty, fundamental component of the research effort. A semi-rigid dinghy was [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Upcoming Cyber-isolation and Seabirds</title>
		<link>http://rhythmconnection.org/?p=606</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:16:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[robert]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alaskan Enterprise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chukchi Sea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[seabirds]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I am on the wing, heading north in a couple of days to join a NOAA marine mammal expedition in the Bering and Chukchi Seas, as a volunteer seabird observer. My role is to record seabird abundance while the ship, the Alaskan Enterprise, travels from station to station along an extended cruise that begins in [&#8230;]]]></description>
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