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Recordist's notes
Dennis recites “Memory”, a poem picturing a march through Alexandra in 2004. This is the poem we then continue talking about in our conversation… archived at: https://archive.org/details/DurbanSings_764 The poem and further clips from the recording with Dennis are included in remix in the radio play LONG WALK 2009. A playlist of clips from the radio play is archived here: https://archive.org/details/Listen_Babylon
About the place
Durban is a city of about 3,338,026 people in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. OttoAnna lists 9 field recordings from here.
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Sources & credits
- “University of Kwa-ZuluNatal, CCS, South Africa - Dennis Brutus, when we marched through Alex...” by radio continental drift – CC BY-SA 3.0 · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0