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KATHRYN JOHNSON recommends the work of Norman Kaplan that was a tool in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa
Wondrous Windy City women
GAVIN O’TOOLE welcomes a bold feminist subversion of classic folktales that are ubiquitous in the Irish imagination
A novel by Mexican Juan Pablo Villalobos, poetry by Mexican Ingrid Bringas, and a biography by Argentinian Mercedes Halfon
PAUL DONOVAN applauds an entertaining dramatisation of the famous dispute that gives insight into the struggle, and Murdoch’s unscrupulous mendacity
ELLIS RAE is disappointed by the revival of a nihilistic play that fails to offer alternatives for social change
STEVE JOHNSON recommends an exceptional album that explores the narrative folk tradition often with a strong political message
SINCE the late 1960s, Art Ensemble of Chicago has been tearing open the sound fabric of complacent jazz. The quintet have forged sonic waves that were revolutionary in their conception and audacious in their every note.
Now, of the original pioneers, only septuagenarian master multi-reedman Roscoe Mitchell and veteran drummer Famoudou Don Moye remain, outrageous and eternal fixtures of the music.
New instrumental voices have changed their sound. Young bassman Junius Paul and the Houston-born trumpeter Hugh Ragin play in the long-held places of Malachi Favors, Lester Bowie and Joseph Jarman.
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