Music At Festivals and Holidays
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Majek Fashek's "African Unity"
You can download the clip or download a player to play the clip in your browser. Majek Fashek is among the most well-known Nigerian reggae musicians Read more about this topic: Music Of Nigeria Famous quotes containing the words music and/or festivals:“I cannot say what poetry is; I know that our sufferings and our concentrated joy, our states of plunging far and dark and turning to come back to the world—so that the moment of intense turning seems still and universal—all are here, in a music like the music of our time, like the hero and like the anonymous forgotten; and there is an exchange here in which our lives are met, and created.” “Why wont they let a year die without bringing in a new one on the instant, cant they use birth control on time? I want an interregnum. The stupid years patter on with unrelenting feet, never stopping—rising to little monotonous peaks in our imaginations at festivals like New Year’s and Easter and Christmas—But, goodness, why need they do it?” |