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Protesting is a Love Song - Music from South Africa

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Experience a powerful 27-minute musical performance that transforms South African protest songs from the Apartheid era into expressions of love, memory, and hope. Watch as musician, composer, and installation artist Neo Muyanga, an Aspen Africa Leadership Initiative Fellow, collaborates with distinguished soprano Tina Meni to reimagine songs of resistance as love songs, demonstrating how music serves as a living vessel for collective memory and imagination. Discover how these artists breathe new life into historical protest music while celebrating South Africa's complex history through an original opera piece composed by Muyanga and performed by Meni, showcasing the transformative power of music to connect past struggles with present healing and future possibilities.

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Protesting is a Love Song: Music from South Africa

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