Brian Eno, Martha Graham, Miriam Makeba
I had a Brian Eno song for the I See Faces brief so decided to chose between Martha Graham and Miriam Makeba. Both were massive in their respective art forms and had huge influence on culture, politics, art and music. The similarity between them is that they both brought their art forms to international attention, revitalising and popularising each respectively.
I was attracted to Makeba's fight against apartheid in South Africa. She was known as 'Queen of Africa' in the West and brought African music into the West's mainstream music industry. Graham was known as 'The Picasso of Dance' for her revolutionary revitalisation of dance and as known as the 'inventor of modern dance' as we know it today.
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