The Making of Sun City
Description
With Nelson Mandela still in prison after two decades and human rights abuses growing worse, more than 50 popular musicians came together in the summer of 1985 to take a stand against state-sanctioned racism in South Africa. "Artists United Against Apartheid" recorded an album to broadcast their boycott of the lavish Sun City resort, located scant miles from poverty-stricken communities suffering under the racist regime. This classic program is an expanded version of the original 1986 film that documented the recording of the Sun City album. The video features Steven Van Zandt, Miles Davis, Bono, Run-DMC, Bonnie Raitt, Bruce Springsteen, Herbie Hancock, and many, many others singing the anthemic "Sun City" chorus and explaining why they chose to take part in the protest.
Runtime
60 min
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Geography
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Date of Publication
[2013], c1987
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