{"id":23209,"date":"2019-07-18T00:34:24","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T07:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=23209"},"modified":"2022-07-17T12:00:36","modified_gmt":"2022-07-17T19:00:36","slug":"only-colour-light-and-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=23209","title":{"rendered":"only colour light and music"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\r\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-26348 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/only-colour-light-and-music-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"606\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/only-colour-light-and-music-.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/only-colour-light-and-music--300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/only-colour-light-and-music--768x434.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 606px) 100vw, 606px\" \/><\/figure>\r\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\">only colour light and music\u00a0<\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">only colour light and music\u00a0<br \/>to our hearts and souls<br \/>says the Daily Maverick<br \/>reporting on the passing<br \/>of Johnny Clegg (1953 &#8211; Forever)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1953 &#8211; Forever they say<br \/>as his music will<br \/>be played on<br \/>a long time after\u00a0<br \/>the glowing accolades<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet another says\u00a0<br \/>The dance ends<br \/>for Johnny Clegg<br \/>South Africa\u2019s beloved\u00a0<br \/>musical storyteller<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">born out yonder Rochdale<br \/>to my knowledge<br \/>no-one here has<br \/>called him an alien<br \/>or anything the nastier<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">raised a bit in Zimbabwe<br \/>then peri-urban Johannesburg\u00a0<br \/>and its townships were<br \/>his teenage stomping ground\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">this 15-year-old was taught<br \/>Zulu music and traditional dancing<br \/>by Charlie Mzila following him<br \/>guitar in hand to all\u00a0<br \/>the migrant labour haunts<br \/>from hostels to rooftop shebeens<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(this we hear from\u00a0<br \/>the Final Journey official programme)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">he who brought only\u00a0<br \/>colour light and music\u00a0<br \/>to our hearts and souls<br \/>has now made<br \/>his final journey<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Photo Credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.rfi.fr\/africa\/20190717-johnny-clegg-johnny-clegg-undaunted-dream-better-place-asimbonanga\">RFI<\/a> \/ Alliance DPA)<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>only colour light and music\u00a0to our hearts and soulssays the Daily Maverickreporting on the passingof Johnny Clegg (1953 &#8211; Forever) 1953 &#8211; Forever they sayas his music willbe played ona long time after\u00a0the glowing accolades Yet another says\u00a0The dance endsfor Johnny CleggSouth Africa\u2019s beloved\u00a0musical storyteller born out yonder Rochdaleto my knowledgeno-one here hascalled him an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[731,6395,83,732],"class_list":["post-23209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-david-kapp","tag-johnny-clegg","tag-south-africa","tag-the-very-unfortunate","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23209"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26349,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23209\/revisions\/26349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}