KWAITO PERSPECTIVES ON AMAPIANO: A CONVERSATION WITH DJ CLEO

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The Witch’s Flight with Zama Dube

Dr. Zama Dube

11 episodes

4 days ago

"The Witch’s Flight: In Search of the Black Femme" is adapted from film Scholar, Kara Keeling's study on cinematic representations of the Black femme. The premise of "The Witch's Flight" is guided by the question; “What does freedom SOUND like?”. Join Zama Dube on a series of sonic experiments framing AMAPIANO as a map to freedom dreams. Drawing from Afro-diasporic soundscapes, Film & Visual Art, "The Witch's Flight brings the museum, the classroom and the club dance-floor to the radio. The Witch’s Flight is a Black Feminist portal to creative possibilities across the African diaspora.

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KWAITO PERSPECTIVES ON AMAPIANO: A CONVERSATION WITH DJ CLEO

The Witch’s Flight with Zama Dube

48 minutes 25 seconds

7 months ago

KWAITO PERSPECTIVES ON AMAPIANO: A CONVERSATION WITH DJ CLEO

The Witch’s Flight is guided by the question; “What does freedom SOUND like?” Taking heed to this, amapiano becomes a portal and a sonic guide to diverse freedom dreams. The Witch’s Flight is the quest for a Black feminist sensibility structured in a series of sonic experimentations that center South Africa and the larger African diaspora.

On this month’s episode, Zama will be joined in conversation by DJ Cleo, mapping DJ Cleo’s impact on South African dance music culture and its influence on the contemporary landscape of amapiano.

DJ Cleo is a South African multi-award-winning musician, producer and DJ. Though he started DJing at age 17, his professional DJ career started at the age of 19 when he doubled as both a mix dj and a technical producer for Ashifa Shabba and Dj Fresh at Yfm. He now hosts and DJ’s a Friday night radio show on Radio 2000 ––“the Eskhaleni party.”