Toast coetzer biography books
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The impossible task of a South African music book
The South African book falls into the new “genre" category, where it rubs shoulders with “death metal", “trip-hop" and “krautrock". Now I can see trip-hop and krautrock as a genre, but labelling South African music as such is a bit like saying Africa is a country. Also, Lior Phillips was an unknown name to me. I looked her up. According to various websites she is a music and culture journalist and podcaster who was born in Cape Town in the late 1980s and now lives in Chicago. Asked to describe her book in one sentence, she said: “A bold, stereotype-severing and historically immersive collection of scenes across the history of South Africa, exploring the sounds and impact of popular music in all its glorious, evolving genres."
Now that did arouse my interest, so I asked the good people of Bloomsbury for a review copy, which they sent the next day. I finished it a few weeks ago and made numerous notes. Is it interesting? It sure
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South Africa A Visual Tour Through Its Region
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Language: English, also available in German
South Africa: A Visual Tour Through Its Regions is an all-new visual celebration of the scenic splendour, cultural diversity, wildlife and architecture of South Africa’s most extraordinary and magnificent regions. Glossy, full-colour photographs are accompanied by detailed captions.
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Biography
Toast Coetzer was born in 1977 in Cradock. He plays in the grupp The Buckfever Underground and he works as a travel reporter for WEG and Go! magazines.
Samantha Reinders is an award-winning photographer and multimedia producer currently based in Cape Town, South Africa – pursuing stories there and abroad.
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