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You're listening to sound opinions, and this week we revisit our world tour of South African popular music with author and journalist Leor Phillips.

I'm Jim D. Reganist.

And I'm Greg Cott.

We're talking about the formative music of the past and present of South Africa.

That's in a minute on Sound Opinions.

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Beer. Throughout the years, you know, Greg, we've done a couple of these world tour episodes

when we've talked about music from a particular country that listeners here may not have been

very familiar with. This week, we're diving deep into the popular music of South Africa

that we want to mention here. This is not all the music of South Africa. It's just a very good

place to start. What a rich tradition. Absolutely right, Jim. And we've got a great guide to take us

on the tour today, South African journalist and author

of the 33 and a third book, South African popular music, Leor Phillips.

Lear, welcome to sound opinions.

Hi, thank you so much for having me.

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