Lerato Tshabalala-Mini on The Jazz Standard With Brenda Sisane

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Archives do not only live in books or institutional collections. Sometimes they live in places — in neighbourhoods, community halls and cultural centres where history continues to be spoken, performed and remembered. One such place is Eyethu Heritage Hall.

It is here that a fascinating storytelling platform titled Jazz In Our Plagues has taken root — a project that turns historic markers into living narratives through short films, conversations and music. Guiding that work is writer, researcher and cultural practitioner Lerato Tshabalala-Mini. With Jazz In Our Plagues, she and her collaborators are creating a space where history becomes conversation — where the stories behind South Africa’s jazz legacy are told not only through scholarship, but through film, dialogue and the living voices of the people who carry that history.
15 Mar English South Africa Music History · Music Commentary

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