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Director Lee Hirsch's documentary tells how protest music became the mechanism for survival during the four decades of South Africa's apartheid. It's a story in which people are killed, and people sing. It's one in which men, starting with Nelson Mandela, tough it out on one level, while imprisoned women have babies. Full of celebrated people unknown to many Americans, the movie also features Miriam Makeba and Hugh Masekela, who both charted U.S. pop hits while living in exile.
Director Lee Hirsch's documentary tells how protest music became the mechanism for survival during the four decades of South Africa's apartheid. It's a story in which people are killed, and people sing. It's one in which men, starting with Nelson Mandela, tough it out on one level, while imprisoned women have babies. Full of celebrated people unknown to many Americans, the movie also features Miriam Makeba and Hugh Masekela, who both charted U.S. pop hits while living in exile.
| Big Voice Jack | Penny Whistle |
| Lee Edwards | Engineer |
| Neal Snyman | Engineer |
| Tony Mangurian | Engineer |
| Rick Mitchell | Engineer |
| Evert de Munnik | Engineer |
| Jonathan Jacobs | Engineer |
Anonymous
Posted October 1, 2010
Amandla!, the film, is the winner of the Audience Award and Freedom of Expression Award at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival. It tells the story of black South African freedom music and reveals the central role it played in the long battle against Apartheid. The soundtrack is the heart and soul of this film. Filled with legendary freedom singers like Mbongeni Ngema, Vusi Mahlasela, and The African National Congress Choir, the soundtrack moves the listener, taking him or her back to this struggle for freedom in South Africa. The album is also a great introduction to South African musicians and their style of carrying a message of movement through song. Perhaps the greatest quality of this album is its ability to motivate. This is music of a movement, an epic movement. We can all learn from these musicians how music can be used as an engine of motivation.
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Editorial Reviews
Barnes & Noble - Mark Schwartz
Just as the mesmerizing film is much more than the story of the struggle against apartheid or a history of South African freedom songs, Amandla! is much more than a soundtrack. Suffused with aching sorrow and spine-tingling joy -- both of which mask the simmering rage of repressed black South Africans -- the soundtrack is more of a companion to the film. Those bewitched by the revolutionary music, from Township jive to jazz to the unstoppable toyi-toyi, that galvanized South African resistance over a half century of struggle will find even more to enchant here. Judiciously choosing from the nonstop barrage of sweet, soulful music that is the movie, the soundtrack ...