... whether with the more concrete intentions of invoking peace or threatening war, or with the more abstract intentions of recovering or reflecting a past, suggesting or establishing a present, and projecting or prophesying a future."" This statement seems to be the most accurate reflection of music's purpose in South African apartheid. Music had always been a primary component of black South Africa's extended fight ... against racial desegregation and when the white colonial government instituted the Native Lands Act of 1913, forcing the black peasantry off its own farms and reapportioning...

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