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For five decades Susana Baca has been performing plangent protest songs in the name of South America’s marginalised peoples, the poor and the planet. On the eve of the release of her latest album, Palabras Urgentes, the Afro-Peruvian diva talks to Chris Moss

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Songlines December 2021 issue is out now!

Kora star Sona Jobarteh talks education and activism; Béla Fleck's return to his bluegrass roots; The Beatles' Indian music obsessions; Purbayan Chatterjee's lockdown alliance; a Beginner's Guide to Amsterdam Klezmer Band, plus more inside

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Sona Jobarteh – The kora star talks education and activism 

The Beatles and India – A look at the Fab Four's obsession with the music of India

Béla Fleck – Banjo's innovating champion returns to his bluegrass roots

Noam Vazana – Meet the musician reviving a lost language

Purbayan Chatterjee – Lockdown missives from the sitar master 

Amsterdam Klezmer Band – Beginner’s Guide to the genre-busting Dutch-Jewish septet 

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