Get Rich or Die Tryin’: 50 Cent’s seminal hip-hop album 20 years on: It is January 2003 – many years before I began researching popular music professionally – and I’m flicking around the music channels on TV. Disillusioned by the usual paint by numbers chart fodder and ready to call it a day, I chance …
Nosferatu at 100: how the seminal vampire film shaped the horror genre: Keith Corrigan / Alamy It’s the centenary of the cinema premiere of the German horror film Nosferatu. Now recognised as a classic of the silent era and one of the first examples of cinematic horror, it used elements of Gothic style to present …
South Africa in the news: WATCH: Live for 24 Hours Only ‘A Winter’s Tale’ Seminal Oz Surf Flick: Right here, we’ve got you a one-day-only affair, a screening of seminal Oz surf flick A Winter’s Tale. This flick is real time capsule stuff. From Sheppard/Usher Productions, this 1974 release …: “South Africa” – BingNews NICD …
Remembering Pat Mokoka of the Malopoets — seminal South African music: The late Pat Mokoka photographed at home in 2019. Ihsaan Haffejee/New Frame The lack of archive around the life and music of bass guitarist Patrick Thabo “Pat” Mokoka is emblematic of how little South African cultural history has really been preserved. Mokoka, a founder …