ASC Exhibition: Music on African stamps: Western music

Music as an expression of national identity is a common theme on stamps. That was also the case with the stamps of the previous Music-on-African-stamps exhibition. However, the stamps of the present exhibition show a very different picture, which has nothing to do with national identity: European composers and western “heroes of popular music”. Stamps showing European composers like Ludwig van Beethoven, Igor Strawinsky, Johann Sebastiaan Bach,  Georg Friedrich Händel, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, black music heroes like Louis Armstrong, Billy Holiday, Muddy Waters, Mahalia Jackson, Lionel Hampton and Jimmy Hendrix and white music heroes like Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Jerry Garcia, Janis Joplin and Bob Dylan.

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