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27 Coxson 1987. 28 Ibid. ”29 The interests and motives of the musicians were often brushed aside in the press and the transnational record company and the producer were blamed for the stylistic changes. This contrasts sharply with the way the Bhundu Boys and the personnel working with the band saw things. 30 Robin Millar’s standpoint could be characterised as liberal and approving, and he emphasises how he wanted to do his best to implement the wishes of the band without patronising them: Having gone there [to Africa], having talked to them [the African musicians], having seen it from beginning, having been friends, having lived with African people on and off since 1979, I knew perfectly well that just like anyone, just like a kid from a band in Helsinki or in Manchester, they basically just want to wear groovy clothes, make groovy music, write groovy songs, have some hits, make some money, smoke some dope, have a good time, women….
51. 20 Ibid. , p. 40. 18 31 Stefan Helgesson he was at the time Senegal’s president, a fact which no doubt contributed to the diplomatic, formal character of his lecture. Nonetheless, seen as a symbolic and ideological intervention Senghor’s paper is most intriguing. As we have seen, he draws on an already functional discourse on Portuguese hybridity and Portugal’s emotional proximity to Africa. As a key proponent of négritude—the aestheticising reappraisal of black culture—Senghor insists on its affinity with lusitanidade and regards Brazil as the ideal example of how two proximate “civilisations” may meld.
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