detail from Mahlathini & The Mahotella Queens album Music Inferno: The Indestructible Beat Tour 1988-89
Some great answers in dismas' Ask Metafilter post about Antecedents of the 'worldbeat' guitar sound: "What e.g., Afro-pop artists from the 1980s should I listen to if I really like that sound?"
"Out of Nowhere" by Ray Kelly
So MANY great photo posts this month: a rare view of Victorian Women of Color; "Through Our Eyes" asked 100 homeless people in Spartanburg, South Carolina to take pictures of their lives; Vintage aerial photos of rural America; Was Diane Arbus the Most Radical Photographer of the 20th Century?; Six degrees of Copenhagen by Jens Juul; WaterWigs project by Tim Tadder; Restricted Areas series by Russian photographer Danila Tkachenko; freaky and cute Secret Friends; photographs by Degas; using drones to portray scenes of inequality in South Africa; Famous landmarks photographed from the "wrong" direction.
Homo naledi skeletal specimens from the Dinaledi Chamber, South Africa
One of my friends from my graduate program is a "tiny caver" on this project, so I can't make my own post ... but I can comment!
ChuraChura adds some great link love to ladybird's post about the discovery of new hominin species Homo naledi, and the skilled slender spelunkers recruited to excavate the nearly inaccessible find.
Die Antwoord by FromSandToGlass (cc by)
South African MetaFilter member 00dimitri00 gives a bit of background, history, and insider perspective on the band Die Antwoord:
It's like we're all in on Waddy's Joke and it's a gas seeing the rest of the world trying to figure it out.
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