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DURBAN SINGS pre-release compilation

 16th July 2009

 

 

 

 

 

DURBAN SINGS pre-release compilation 16th July 2009

Play list:
tracks 1-10:
http://www.archive.org/details/DurbanSings_976 
01 DS jingle African Roots DURBAN SINGS: archive (0:25)
02 Service Delivery DURBAN SINGS: Malungisa (2:31)
03 Formation of the Qadi clan DURBAN SINGS: Malingisa (2:05)
04 iNanda Dam Crisis DURBAN SINGS: Malungisa (1:09)
05 Wealth from plantations DURBAN SINGS: Malungisa (1:49)
06 Area of kosmokind DURBAN SINGS: Ubuntu Babasha (1:12)
07 Land for 5 pound DURBAN SINGS: Ubuntu Babasha (1:35)
08 In every sector of life DURBAN SINGS: Ubuntu Babasha (0:10)
09 Clermont heritage DURBAN SINGS: Ubuntu Babasha (2:42)
10 Big Business DURBAN SINGS: Ubuntu Babasha (1:08)
tracks 11-20:
http://www.archive.org/details/DurbanSings_59 
11 Sindi Mfeka DURBAN SINGS: Ubuntu Babasha (0:23)
12 Anna and Pendeza clip: DURBAN SINGS archive (0:36)
13 My family: DURBAN SINGS: Community Media Desk (2:31)
14 Memories of the area DURBAN SINGS Community Media Desk (1:14)
15 Our security: DURBAN SINGS: Community Media Desk (2:11)
16 Thanks DURBAN SINGS: Community Media Desk (1:44)
17 Light on Africa DURBAN SINGS: archive (0:23)
18 Marri Cele a legend DURBAN SINGS: Youth in Action (2:21)
19 Mbukeni Ndimande: INK man DURBAN SINGS: Youth in Action (2:47)
20 Thobekile Ngcobo Ungabukeli phansi omunye DURBAN SINGS: Youth in Action (2:44)
tracks 21-30:
http://www.archive.org/details/DurbanSings_326                                             21. Yolande Mbongwa The future is in her DURBAN SINGS: Youth in Action (1:39)
22 DS jingle contemporary short DURBAN SINGS: archive (0:22)
23 Harold Boyce Man among the women DURBAN SINGS: Mariann Coordinating Committee (2:16)
24 Esodora DeBruin The storyteller DURBAN SINGS: Mariann Coordinating Committee (2:58)
25 Joyce Anderson knows her roots DURBAN SINGS: Mariann Coordinating Committee (1:06)
26 Shirley Ricks The next CEQ DURBAN SINGS: Mariann Coordinating Committee (2:56)
27 Slow development song DURBAN SINGS: Abasha (1:05)
28 Future for young people DURBAN SINGS: Abasha (2:00)
29 No houses but tents DURBAN SINGS: Abasha (2:06)
30 There's a future in this place DURBAN SINGS: Abasha (1:55)
tracks 31-40: 
http://www.archive.org/details/DurbanSings_644                                31 We are unhappy DURBAN SINGS: Abasha (2:28)
32 Hip-hop clip DURBAN SINGS: Abasha (0:41)
33 Mqoqi Cele DURBAN SINGS: Umlazi Youth (2:30)
34 Mfundisi Mandla Sbiya DURBAN SINGS: Umlazi Youth (1:36)
35 Sbusiso Tony Ndlovu DURBAN SINGS: Umlazi Youth (3:25)
36 Musolu mini clip AWESOME AFRICA: Mali National Choir (0:31)
37 Magaret Vilakazi Lembede DURBAN SINGS: Imisebenzi Yentsha (2:28)
38 Efsquad clip: DURBAN SINGS: Imisebenzi Yentsha (1:14)
39 Chatsworth History short: DURBAN SINGS archive (1:44)
40 Chatsworth drums: DURBAN SINGS archive (0:49)
tracks 41-43 
http://www.archive.org/details/DurbanSings_52 
41 DS jingle contemporary short DURBAN SINGS: archive (0:22)
42 Tunde Adegbola responds to DURBAN SINGS: pan-african Wolpe (4:01)
43 DURBAN SINGS producers curtain call: pan-african Wolpe (2:55)
total playing time: 74 mins

A Pan-African Harold Wolpe Lecture 16 July 2009 South Beach, Durban

COMMUNITY & MEDIA ADVISORY:
Launch of the Durban Sings Oral History Project:
A Pan-African Harold Wolpe Lecture with Tunde Adegbola
Where: 6   Masobiya Mdluli [PKA: Fisher] Street – Gospel for All Nations Community Hall C/r of Ghandi Road  [PKA:Point]Street, South Beach, Durban.
When: July 16 2009, 8.30AM – till late.

 Siyabonga  The event was a marathon Blast! Well done to the D/S collective who outshined all expectations, a shout out to the Kids In Action Inanda/ Ntuzuma (YIA). BIG Up to Mzinyathi Poetic Mcees IBUTHO lo Sondonzima), Folweni Youth were all shinin especially the dancers and editors, Folweni ROCKS! Give tanks to the Ethekwini Libraries: ULWAZI for comming in full force Betsie. G, Siphox2 & Nail Thank you to George and the TEAM for the sound and techical support,to Pastor Mark for the beautiful venue & the faith; it is definately not the last time! To caterers for the vital ital of Mount Zion, to the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation (Jos Martins and Gerd Stephan) for believing in an idea, To the Elder  Ole Tunde Adegbola for your patiance, grace and fountain pool of wisdom and remiding us who we be,to MaHP, Patrick, Amisi, Orlean and the rest of the team @ CCS you are trully an engen to community development  and last but not least to the loving Durban Massive that filled the hall for the Harold Wolpe Lecture- may the spirit of articulation live and overcome these grey days……. motho & radio continental drift

 

report on event in pictures: http://www.ukzn.ac.za/ccs/default.asp?11,22,5,1823

Eight editorial collectives of the DURBAN SINGS project are uploading an extensive oral history archive of interviews from Clermont, Folweni, Inanda, Ntuzuma, Marianridge, Mzinyathi, Umlazi and the inner city all networked via their own blog-sites and the switch-board blog at: www.durbansings.wordpress.com

Responses, re-broadcasts and re-mixes have been arriving at the site from near and far, among them eThekwini Libraries’ Indigenous Knowledge Project: Ulwazi (http://wiki.ulwazi.org) and an entire class of ‘Intercultural Communication’ students at the University of Windsor; Canada. The complete work will be celebrated and launched on the 16th July with a one-day public Wolpe Lecture event in the inner city where the Collectives present their work jointly with guest-speaker Tunde Adegbola, media-activist from Nigeria (http://www.alt-i.org ). A publication of DURBAN SINGS in print and audio will be launched later this year.

Read more about Tunde Adegbola click on this link: About Tunde Adegbola

 

Here’s a selection of African sounds from Brian Shimkovitz aka Awesome Tapes From Africa (http://awesometapesfromafrica.blogspot.com/ published on www.archive.org:

http://www.archive.org/details/AwesomeTapesFromAfricaAudioPovertyDj-set 

 

The Durban Sings project wishes to acknowlege the kind support from the Centre for Civil Society (UKZN), The UKZN History Department, UKZN ITD: for the generous donation of computers, School of Developmet Studies (UKZN), the Market Photo Workshop (JOZI), Christo from the Wits Digital Arts School, SAFM, Keleketla Community Resource Centre (Drill Hall- Jozi), Rasa FM massive, the British Council, Train (London), the School of Community Development and Social Work (UKZN), the Harold Wolpe Trust especially  our core funding partner the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung whithout whose support non of the work represented here would have been posssible. Siyabonga futhi siya thokoza.

11th Allied Media Conference 2009 • Detroit-JOZI-Durban

READ THE 11th AMC PROGRAM BOOKLET

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The gears of the AMC machine are picking up speed as we move through the final days of preparation towards the 2009 Allied Media Conference, which is shaping up to be a truly incredible weekend. For a full sense of what’s in store, please check out the full AMC progam on:  PDF of the conference program. We have some final announcements, reminders and requests for you.

Proposed program  by Monghadi RA Hlasane of Keleketla Library- Drill Hall(JOZI) session betweeen

Detroit<JOZI>Durban >SATURDAY 18 JULY2009 

RASA LIVES!

j16_poster 

 

Picture by Madoda Mkhobeni at the Keleketla Library (Jozi): Tawedzerwa

We have made a wonderful archival recovery of the website  that started it all!!! It is working well with all the documents and post intact. The link just mystriously re-appeared! This tis the original Rasa FM website we started back in the year 2004 with original founding documents and loads of information on how to star a low-powered radio broadcasting facility. Below I copy axtracts of the first iterviews about the station edited by Deedee Halleck of Paper Tiger Television (NYC) (see links on side bar) enjoy and contribute on: http://www.rasa.m2014.net/.

We Mike What We Live!

 The click on link to check out the PDF attachment of the pre-launch session poster held in Diepkloof ema-Tenniscourt: j16_poster

Read more on the strory of Rasa Fm by clicking this link      Saturday 8 April 2006 by motho

ORAL HISTORY, SLOW BROADCAST and AUDIO CORRESPONDENCE between Listeners

Angad Chahal: NATIONAL ANTHEMS: http://www.archive.org/details/NationalAthems
Nazaneen Dizani: VOICE OF MINORITIES http://www.archive.org/details/DurbanSings_425
Sirpa Jokinen: SUMMER MELANCHOLY http://www.archive.org/details/SummerMelancholy
Andrzej Kedzior: AUDIO LETTER http://www.archive.org/details/AndrzejKedziorsDurbanSingsLetter
Alan Dunn: DENNIS SLOW: http://www.archive.org/details/DurbanSings_636
Bill Riley (Alec Skelding & Dennis Compton): THE UMPIRES LAMENT: http://www.archive.org/details/DurbanSings_174
Anonymous: REMIX: http://www.archive.org/details/DurbanSings_182
Michael Curran: MEDUSA: http://www.archive.org/details/DurbanSingsResponseMedusa 
Garth Rennie: cjam91.5fm: LIVE ON-AIR RE-MIXES: http://www.archive.org/details/DurbanSings_972
http://www.archive.org/details/DurbanSings_762
http://www.archive.org/details/DurbanSings_163 
Collette Broeders and Elizabeth Petrovski: VOICES TO AFRICA http://www.archive.org/details/VoicesToAfricaJuxtaposingFragileCommunities

 

CALL FOR RESPONSE:  http://www.archive.org/details/DurbanSings_609

the call for response will remain open till the end of August!

DURBAN SINGS on-air

On 10 June, Garth presented another DURBAN SINGS remix live on Cjam91.5fm. He sourced again the Albert Park Collection of recordings. A remix of the Downtown Bar recordings with Durban filmmaker Similo forms the centre-piece of the show. You can watch active listening as it happens. Recommended listening!

http://www.archive.org/details/DurbanSings_972

earlier re-mixes:

http://www.archive.org/details/DurbanSings_762 (remixes)

http://www.archive.org/details/DurbanSings_163  (entire show)

Raw Footage Archive: Marrianridge

Mariannridge was established in 1976 as a coloured township to relocate coloured families living in a around Durban. This was part of the implementation of the apartheid group areas act. The first families moved into the area in June 1976. The people came from Pinetown, Motala Farm, Clemont, Thornwood, Cato Manor, Umlaas and other areas. Initially 600 units of flats and semi-detached houses were built to accommodate coloured people. When residents arrived there was no infra-structure, no transport system, no access roads to flats no schools and no shops.
Over the years ownership and RDP houses were built. There is now a swimming pool,taxi rank, clinic, creche, fire station, library,community hall, churches, crisis centre, a mosque, primary and high school.
Welcome to the Durban Sings raw footage archive of the oral history recordings published on www.archive.org . These links will be put up as the site archives are being published.
Incudes mainly collected interwviews following standard D/S questionnaire format i.e. biography, family tree, and memories about area, what has changed? What would you change? Dreams for future of area/self, popular saying/proverb, favorite song and any other comments (see D/s questionnaire on www.durbansings.wordpress.com)â¦
Mix languages mainly English.

Welcome to the DURBAN SINGS footage archive of oral history recording. These tracks were recorded by Linda DuPreez, Beverley Webster, Kathy Boyce, Charlene Bridger of Mariann Co-ordinating Commitee(MCC)in Mariannridge Durban South Africa in May/ June 2009. Track 1 No: 009 Date: 28.05.09 Name of Intervee: Colin Amien Area: Mariannridge Primary School {School Principal} Lenght: 5:06 The recordings are published to feed debate and listening exchange

http://www.archive.org/details/DurbanSings_684 

http://www.archive.org/details/03RawFootageArchiveMariannridge
PLEASE SHARE ALIKE. WE treasure these records.
Related parts of the DURBAN SINGS audio archive can be accessed via the switchboard blog http://www.durbansings.wordpress.com and directly via the local editorial teams:
CLERMONT http://www.ubuntubabasha.wordpress.com  
FOLWENI http://www.imisebenziyentsha.wordpress.com
INANDA/ NTUZUMA http://www.inanda.wordpress.com  
INNER CITY http://www.communitymediadesk.wordpress.com  
MZINYATHI http://www.malungisa.wordpress.com  
MARIANNRIDGE http://www.mariannridge.wordpress.com  
UMLAZI http://www.umlaziyouth.wordpress.com

CHATSWORTH

 

An African Diwali  

http://www.archive.org/details/DurbanSings_661

an audio report from Chatsworth, based on recordings made with bin-oral mic over one day: Diwali celebration November 2000: the sounds of preparations of Biriyani for 3000, stories and histories of Indians in South Africa, shrines, rituals, street drama, prayer chants, drums, speeches and Chutneys.

The Birth of Social Movements

http://www.archive.org/details/DurbanSings_965

A talk by Orlean Naidoo at the Centre for Civil Society. May 2009. http://www.ukzn.ac.za/ccs/default.asp?11,61,3,1748

The Chatsworth community’s justice struggles are decades old but since mid 1998 took on renewed importance by heralding the rise of SA’s new social movements. After a decade of combat with the municipality over water, electricity, housing and other grievances, the communities began registering victories in the upgrading of their area.

Orlean Naidoo is a CCS Community Scholar, and since 1998 has been a
leader of the Westcliff Flats Residents Association, a community-based organisation situated in Chatsworth. The organisation recently launched a website: www.chatsworthactivists.wordpress.com  
The exhibit ‘See our Voices’ captures images of Chatsworth’s poors:
www.chatsworthactivists.wordpress.com/2009/04/29/see-or-voices

 

 

 

 

 

quote from www.chatsworthactivists.wordpress.com: The Westcliff Flats Residents Association is a community based organisation that is situated in Westcliff,Chatsworth. It was Established in July 1998.The organistion has been challenging goverment for the last eleven years on service issues.The organisation has twelve members that work tirelessly on a daily bases persueing the cause for a better life for the community

Raw footage archive in proccess: uMlazi

 

Umlazi township is one of the most populated urban African settlements in Durban.it has a rich history predating the arrival of Colonial forces in the territory now called Natal. It is said to have gotten its name from the king of  the Zulu state: Shaka. Whilst most histories ans discriptions of this area have been done by outsiders talking to distant audiences, the Durbansing research has helped to uncover and re-center memories held by thothose who call uMlazi; Home.

This is part of the Raw Footage compiled by Umlazi youth organisation:  http://youthumlazi.wordpress.com/

, in the South Durban, covering many sections and household profiles.

Incudes mainly collected interwviews following standard D/S questionnaire format i.e. biography, family tree, and memories about area, what has changed? What would you change? Dreams for future of area/self, popular saying/proverb, favorite song and any other comments (see D/s questionnaire on  www.durbansings.wordpress.com )…Also some sampler Indegenous Hip Hop tracks by Umlazi Mcees and Zulu hihop heads.
Mix languages mainly Zulu/English.

http://www.archive.org/details/01rawFootageArchiveUmlaziYouth_949 

http://www.archive.org/details/01FootageArchiveUmlazi 

http://www.archive.org/details/01RawFootageArchiveUmlaziyouth 

http://www.archive.org/details/02rawFootageUmlaziYouthHiphopsample

http://www.archive.org/details/03rawFootageArchiveUmlaziYouth 

PLEASE SHARE ALIKE. WE treasure these records.

Related parts of the DURBAN SINGS audio archive can be accessed via the switchboard blog http://www.durbansings.wordpress.com   and directly via the local editorial teams:

CLERMONT http://www.ubuntubabasha.wordpress.com  
FOLWENI http://www.imisebenziyentsha.wordpress.com  
INANDA/ NTUZUMA http://www.inanda.wordpress.com  
INNER CITY http://www.communitymediadesk.wordpress.com  
MZINYATHI http://www.malungisa.wordpress.com  
MARIANNRIDGE http://www.mariannridge.wordpress.com  
UMLAZI http://www.umlaziyouth.wordpress