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    Shadow Man


    As highbrow performers like Peter Gabriel and Paul Simon make it hip for other successful white rockers to incorporate African musical idioms into their music, it's an opportune time for the genuine items to catch American ears. One of the few integrated South African groups to have made a small...

    1989 RS: 3of 5 Stars

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One of the most politically charged "world music" artists to emerge from Africa in the '80s, Johnny Clegg fell so deeply in love with Zulu tribal culture that he not only fused it with Western-based music, he actually became an honorary Zulu tribesman. He was arrested and harassed for flouting South Africa's apartheid system to play music with blacks, yet managed to garner international acclaim.
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