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then pro-surfer-turned-multi-platinum singer-songwriter Jack Johnson is surely his millennial counterpart: an easy-on-the-ears commercial juggernaut that the critics dismiss with undisguised and somewhat unjustified bile

INDESTRUCTABLE BEAT OF SOWETO / VARIOUS 3/3/2003 it's as good as thatDescription In South Africa, long standing racial segregation, codified by apartheid, accelerated the growth of new musical styles in the black townships where black workers sought some re lease from the daily grind in music and dance. The resultant township music styles, known collectively as mbaqanga, had the raw urgency of postwar Chicago blues in the United States. With accordions, guitars, fiddles, percussion (and ul timately electric bass and