"""Joseph"" began life as a short cantata that gained some recognition on its second staging with a favourable review in ""The Times"". For its subsequent performances, Rice and Lloyd Webber revised the show and added new songs to expand it to a more substantial length. Continued expansion eventually culminated in a 1972 stage musical and then a two-hour-long production being staged in the West End in 1973 on the back of the success of ""Jesus Christ Superstar"". In 1969 Rice and Lloyd Webber wrote a song for the Eurovision Song Contest called ""Try It and See"", which was not selected."
"Board in Pretoria. The National Film, Video and Sound Archives is the current custodian of this film. First performed in 1975, his play one-act play ""Too Late"" was banned by the Publications Control Board because it dealt with the death of Ntanana, a crippled girl, through brutal police action and apartheid bureaucracy. Another of his plays ""I Believe"", was also banned. Another famous piece is ""Mama and the load"", which some consider to be his best. In 1989, his Soweto home was firebombed burning early scripts and records. The garage at his home served as rehearsal room, set construction workshop,"
"controversy. The Inner London Education Authority described the song as ""scandalous"", and according to Renshaw, prime minister Margaret Thatcher ""hated it"". Renshaw said: ""There was a political knee-jerk reaction to a song that had nothing to do with the education system. It was [Waters'] reflections on his life and how his schooling was part of that."" The single, as well as the album ""The Wall"", were banned in South Africa in 1980 after it was adopted by supporters of a nationwide school boycott protesting racial inequities in education under apartheid. !scope=""row""| Total available sales: Personnel, according to ""The Pink Floyd"
"was originally banned in South Africa as blasphemous after it opened on Broadway in 1971, and which travelled to Athens in 2007. With the decentralisation of Johannesburg's CBD, Toerien moved his Alhambra operation to the north of Johannesburg, where he opened the Pieter Toerien's Montecasino Theatre and Studio in the Montecasino complex. Here he runs two theatres – a main theatre with 320 seats and a 160-seater studio. Lining the walls of Toerien's theatres are photographs of the innumerable actors who have worked for him over the years, as well as posters of past productions such as ""Sleuth,"" ""A Streetcar"
"An ensuing production, ‘The Best of Brel’, followed in 1983. In 1981 she was also in the cast of ‘Met permissie gesê’, written by Hennie Aucamp. "" The show was the first Afrikaans cabaret."" With Janice Honeyman as director and people such as Amanda Strydom, Rina Nienaber, Gerben Kamper and Bill Curry in the cast, it was a form of ""civilised protest"" against the government of the day. In 1984, English-speaking husband, Christopher Torr, wrote a song in English about the bank robber André Stander, who had obtained almost legendary notoriety in South Africa. The song was never recorded or"
"Jesus Christ Superstar (album) Jesus Christ Superstar is a 1970 rock opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. The album musical is a musical dramatisation of the last week of the life of Jesus Christ, beginning with his entry into Jerusalem and ending with the Crucifixion. It was originally banned by the BBC on grounds of being ""sacrilegious"". The album's story is based in large part on the Synoptic Gospels and Fulton J. Sheen's ""Life of Christ"", which compares and calibrates all four Gospels. However, greater emphasis is placed on the interpersonal relationships of the major characters, in particular,"
"Remastered [Complete on 2 CDs]' and/or 'Original Artwork and Libretto'. This information is not found on the inner packaging.)"" Jesus Christ Superstar (album) Jesus Christ Superstar is a 1970 rock opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. The album musical is a musical dramatisation of the last week of the life of Jesus Christ, beginning with his entry into Jerusalem and ending with the Crucifixion. It was originally banned by the BBC on grounds of being ""sacrilegious"". The album's story is based in large part on the Synoptic Gospels and Fulton J. Sheen's ""Life of Christ"", which compares and"
"banned the soundtrack of the musical Hair, declared a state of emergency during the 1971 South Africa rugby union tour of Australia, banned other political demonstrations and arrested of hundreds of street-marching protestors. Joh Bjelke-Petersen believed he was chosen by God to lead Queensland, claiming his 15 years living alone in a converted cow-bail, clearing 40 hectares of brigalow a day, gave him a better education than an Oxford degree. His conservative approach found favour with the prejudice and backwoods suspicion of many Queenslanders, especially outside the towns, where a country vote could be worth up to five times as"
"Nigeria in 1977, and during a Liberian performance of ""Pata Pata"", the stadium proved so loud that she was unable to complete the song. ""Pata Pata"", like her other songs, had been banned in South Africa. Another song she sang frequently in this period was ""Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika"", though she never recorded it. Makeba later stated that it was during this period that she accepted the label ""Mama Africa"". In 1976, the South African government replaced English with Afrikaans as the medium of instruction in all schools, setting off the Soweto uprising. Between 15,000 and 20,000 students took part; caught"
"Music listeners. The phrase, ""Keyboard, Oh Lord! Why Don't We?"" was used for the title of the third album by Norwegian stoner rock band Thulsa Doom. The song and video were parodied in a commercial for the 2008 season of the USA Network show ""Psych"". ""Ebony and Ivory"" was banned in South Africa by the South African Broadcasting Corporation during the Apartheid era, making it the only song McCartney released in his solo career to receive such a ban. The official reason for the song's ban was because Stevie Wonder accepted his 1984 Academy Award for Best Original Song ""in"
"revoked in 1993, when conciliations for a democratic South Africa were well under way. In the 1960s, the Anti-Apartheid Movement worldwide began to campaign for ""cultural"" boycotts of apartheid South Africa. Artists were requested not to present or let their works be hosted in South Africa. In 1963, 45 British writers put their signatures to an affirmation approving of the boycott, and, in 1964, American actor Marlon Brando called for a similar affirmation for films. In 1965, the Writers' Guild of Great Britain called for a proscription on the sending of films to South Africa. Over sixty American artists signed"
"Artscape Theatre Centre Artscape Theatre Centre (formerly Nico Malan Theatre Centre) is the main performing arts centre in Cape Town, South Africa. It was opened in 1971 and is located on reclaimed land in the Foreshore area. The inaugural performance was scheduled to be Verdi's Aida but illness struck the title-role singer Emma Renzi and the production was replaced by CAPAB Ballet's Sylvia. Other productions in the opening season were Mozart's Die Zauberflöte in Afrikaans and Puccini's Madama Butterfly. The complex includes: The Artscape Theatre Centre was originally commissioned by the Provincial Administration of the Cape Province and run by"
"was still embedded in the law. The racially mixed Juluka, led by Johnny Clegg, remained popular through the 1970s and early 1980s. The government tried to harness this popularity by sponsoring a multi-lingual song titled ""Together We Will Build a Brighter Future,"" but the release, during a period of great political unrest, caused further anger at the government, and protests forced the song to be withdrawn before commercial sales were made. Among the most popular anti-apartheid songs in South Africa was ""Bring Him Back Home (Nelson Mandela)"" by Hugh Masekela. Nelson Mandela was a great fan of Masekela's music, and"
"songs, including from artists outside South Africa such as Tom Paxton and Peter Hammill. The English singer-songwriter Peter Gabriel released ""Biko"" in tribute to him, which was a hit single in 1980, and was banned in South Africa soon after. Along with other anti-apartheid music, the song helped to integrate anti-apartheid themes into Western popular culture. Biko's life was also commemorated through theatre. The inquest into his death was dramatised as a play, ""The Biko Inquest"", first performed in London in 1978; a 1984 performance was directed by Albert Finney and broadcast on television. Anti-apartheid activists used Biko's name and"
"to another project that of his alto ego, Bernoldus Niemand, and his ""Wie is Bernoldus Niemand?"" album (1985). Targeting the monolithic Afrikaner ""cultural establishment"" the album was promptly banned by the SABC, although the song ""Hou my vas Korporaal"" would become an anthem for the anti conscription movement. In its time it was utterly new, inspiring ""alternative Afrikaner"" performers like Johannes Kerkorrel and Koos Kombuis who would spearhead the Voëlvry boerepunk movement some years later. James in fact was invited to join the Voëlvry bandwagon for a successful, if controversial, tour of the country in 1989. 1989 saw the controversial"
"1977, and was banned again for the third time. The ban status on the film in Australia has remained largely unchanged since then, due to in part that the film violates Australian obscenity laws. The film follows a man, who has an intellectual or mental disorder, living alone on a farm in rural Belgium. He demonstrates bizarre behavior from the beginning, such as fastening doll's heads to pigeons, collecting his feces in glass jars and beheading a hen for his own amusement. He is also obsessed with a sow who lives on the farm. We see him gleefully rolling around"
"melody violated the law. Today, ""Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika"" is part of the national anthem of South Africa. The formerly illegal lyrics—""Nkosi sikelela, thina lusapho lwayo""—are now often sung when ""Weeping"" is recorded or performed. In 1999, ""Weeping"" was voted ""All-time favorite South African Song"" by the readers of the ""South African Rock Encyclopedia"". Over the years, a wide variety of artists have performed versions of the song. Here is a partial list. Weeping (song) ""Weeping"" is an anti-apartheid protest song written by Dan Heymann in the mid-1980s, and first recorded by Heymann and the South African group Bright Blue in"
"in 1961. Throughout this time, Gordimer continued to demand through both her writing and her activism that South Africa re-examine and replace its long held policy of apartheid. During this time, the South African government banned several of her works, two for lengthy periods of time. ""The Late Bourgeois World"" was Gordimer's first personal experience with censorship; it was banned in 1976 for a decade by the South African government. ""A World of Strangers"" was banned for twelve years. Other works were censored for lesser amounts of time. ""Burger's Daughter"", published in June 1979, was banned one month later; the"
"and their struggle against it. The songs were often performed in three- or four-part harmony. The group performed more than 200 times across Europe, and were seen as the cultural arm of the ANC. The group experienced personal and organisational difficulties, and disbanded in 1980. In 1976 the government of South Africa decided to implement the use of Afrikaans as the medium of instruction in all schools instead of English. In response, high school students began a series of protests that came to be known as the Soweto Uprising. 15,000–20,000 students took part; the police, caught unprepared, opened fire on"
"considered such comments to be blasphemous, the character of Judas too sympathetic and some of his criticisms of Jesus offensive. At the same time, some Jews claimed that it bolstered the antisemitic belief that the Jews were responsible for Jesus' death by showing most of the villains as Jewish (Caiaphas and the other priests, Herod) and showing the crowd in Jerusalem calling for the crucifixion. The musical was banned in South Africa for being ""irreligious"". A 1972 production of the play was banned in the Hungarian People's Republic for ""distribution of religious propaganda"". ""Superstar"" opened at the Palace Theatre in"
"by English Anglican bishop Trevor Huddleston. In 1968 the United Nations passed a resolution asking members to cut any ""cultural, educational, and sporting ties with the racist regime"", thereby bringing pressure to bear on musicians and other performers to avoid playing in South Africa. In 1980, the UN passed a resolution allowing a cultural boycott of South Africa. The resolution named Nelson Mandela, and his profile was raised further by the ANC deciding to focus its campaign on him in 1982, 20 years after he had been imprisoned. In 1983, Special AKA released their song ""Free Nelson Mandela"", an optimistic"
"CD of the soundtrack fails to mention contributing musicians, including Hugh Masekela, nor includes any of the three Ladysmith Black Mambazo songs (written by Joseph Tshabalala) used so prominently in the film. The film was released at a time when South Africa was undergoing great political upheaval and regular demonstrations. The film itself was initially banned by South African censors, who said it could harm President F.W. de Klerk's attempts at apartheid reform. The ban was later lifted in September 1989 and the movie was screened at the Weekly Mail Film Festival in Johannesburg. Brando's performance in the movie earned"
"the souls. Lucifer cheats and wins the game. The song finishes with the stanza: The song was deemed blasphemous in South Africa, and a ban was ordered. A&M records sued to get the ban overturned - the suit was eventually successful. However, while the suit was in progress, A&M released the album under the title ""Lonely Sky and Other Stories"" (without ""Spanish Train""). This album is considered a collector's item today - copies are extremely rare. Perversely, the ban only applied to the LP record, so the cassette issue of Spanish Train was always freely available. Spanish Train and Other"
"Cirque"", set to music by Bach, and ""Kami"", based on a play by C. Louis Leipoldt, ""Die Laaste Aand"" (""The Last Evening""), and set to music by Bizet and Michael Tuffin, deal with the government policy of ""apartheid"" (literally, ""apart-hood""), the major social issue in twentieth-century South Africa. ""Le Cirque"" was a dramatic attack on government repression; ""Kami"" (Sanskrit, ""of fulfilled desires"") was a grim tale of interracial marriage and the mysterious death of a government official. ""The Rain Queen"", a work conceived by choreographer Frank Staff, was set to a commissioned score by Graham Newcater and had décor and"
"South Africa. For a band with white and black members, the government's policies of enforced racial segregation made accommodations, booking, and travel more difficult, if not dangerous. Sometimes when they arrived at a club to perform, they were refused entry because they were multi-ethnic. On one occasion, John Leyden (a white man) was arrested on a charge of loitering after he gave a ride home to bandmate Jack Lerole (a black man). At the same time, the state was trying to censor and suppress the anti-establishment music scene. In the 1980s and early 1990s, near the end of the apartheid"
"the apartheid system in South Africa, and was responsible for popularising several anti-apartheid songs, including ""Meadowlands"" by Strike Vilakezi and ""Ndodemnyama we Verwoerd"" (Watch out, Verwoerd) by Vuyisile Mini. Due to her high profile, she became a spokesperson of sorts for Africans living under oppressive governments, and in particular for black South Africans living under apartheid. When the South African government prevented her from entering her home country, she became a symbol of ""apartheid's cruelty"", and she used her position as a celebrity by testifying against apartheid before the UN in 1962 and 1964. Many of her songs were banned"
"Africa by the government upon its release. Nonetheless, it became a part of the number of musical voices protesting the apartheid regime, and became an important song for the anti-apartheid movement in the late 1980s. It was declared to be ""clean"" by the South African government following Mandela's release from prison in 1990. Artists within South Africa sometimes used subtle lyrics to avoid the censors. The song ""Weeping for His Band Bright Blue"" by Dan Heymann, a ""reluctant army conscript"", used ""Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika"", an anthem of the ANC that had been banned, as the backdrop for symbolic lyrics about"
"blasphemy. The ban was widely recognized as a political response to the depiction of racial mixing, which presented a direct challenge to apartheid in South Africa. The Lindbergs challenged the ban in the Supreme Court and won their case. As a result, ""Godspell"" toured South Africa for two years and opened doors to all races on both sides of the footlights. This production was both a theatrical triumph and a political and legal breakthrough. The first Broadway production opened on June 22, 1976 at the Broadhurst Theatre. It was directed by John Michael Tebelak, with Steve Reinhardt as musical director,"
"Witwatersrand Medical School, Johannesburg, with a B.Pharmaceutics degree. He spent much of his early years in the arts performing on stage and screen. As part of the duo “Stirling & Tellinger” he had several music hits in South Africa. In 1986, he worked in Los Angeles for Cannon Films as a sound designer and editor; and wrote and recorded the controversial anti-apartheid song “We come from Johannesburg”, which was banned under the previous regime. His latest contribution to the arts was a song called “Side By Side With Angels”, for the TSUNAMI disaster fund in 2005, which featured a number"
"was among several of his songs that were banned in South Africa. The song has been covered by a number of artists, including Joan Baez, who included it on her recording ""Recently"". Though Baez sang in her customary vocal style, the track included backing vocals drawn from traditional South African music, arranged by Ciaphus Semenya. The track brought Baez a nomination for a Grammy Award. Another notable cover was by the Soweto Gospel Choir, who performed it as a flash mob in 2013. At the Nelson Mandela 90th Birthday Tribute concert in London in 2008, Clegg, Baez, and the Soweto"
"and production company, GK Productions. He trained famous South African artists and entertainers such as Brenda Fassie, Nomsa Nene and Mbongeni Ngema in the garage of his home in Dube, Soweto. Kente also wrote music for artist such as Miriam Makeba and Letta Mbulu. Three of his plays drew criticism for being anti-apartheid (Segregation) and were banned: ""How Long"", ""I Believe"" and ""Too Late"". He was jailed for one year in 1976 on conclusion of the filming of his play ""How Long"". The film was never released and the master negative of the film was given to the National Film"
"a statement against apartheid and against professional links with the state. The presentation of some South African plays in Britain and America was also vetoed. After the arrival of television in South Africa in 1975, the British Actors Union, ""Equity"", boycotted the service, and no British program concerning its associates could be sold to South Africa. Sporting and cultural boycotts did not have the same impact as economic sanctions, but they did much to lift consciousness amongst normal South Africans of the global condemnation of apartheid. These facets of social remoteness from the worldwide hamlet made apartheid a discomfiture and"
"a hit in South Africa, touring for two years during which it was seen by more than a quarter of a million people, of whom two-thirds were white, the musical played at the Prince's Theatre in the West End of London in 1961. The liner notes for the London cast recording state: ""No theatrical venture in South Africa has had the sensational success of King Kong. This musical, capturing the life, colour, and effervescence -- as well as the poignancy and sadness -- of township life, has come as a revelation to many South Africans that art does not recognize"