{"product_id":"9781431423637","title":"Still Grazing: The Musical Journey of Hugh Masekela","description":"Hugh Masekela is a prodigiously talented giant of jazz and  world music, and a pioneer in sharing the voice and spirit of  South Africa with the rest of the world, but his globetrotting tale  transcends music.  First published in the USA in 2004, this autobiography shares  with rich detail Masekela’s life, infused with love and loss, sex  and drugs, exile and revolution. He survived it all, with wit,  passion, abundant talent and wisdom, and is now bringing his  story back home!  A new foreword and afterword to his autobiography will add  fresh insights into the life of one of today’s few living world-class  artists and rare spirits. Still Grazing narrates a magical journey  around the world in this epic, music-soaked tale of love, excess,  exile and home.  Masekela’s life began in a South Africa haunted by violence, but  redeemed by the consolations of family, music and adventure.  As the grip of apartheid tightened, he was driven into exile  and embarked on what would become a thirty-year pilgrimage  around the world. His first stop was New York City, where he  was adopted by legends such as Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis and  Harry Belafonte. Masekela lived through some of the most vital  and colourful music scenes of our time: blowing with bebop  greats in New York, playing with a young Bob Marley in Jamaica,  hanging out with Jimi Hendrix and Sly Stone in the sixties, and  getting lost in the madness of Fela’s Afropop explosion in Lagos.  He loved extravagantly, including marrying Miriam Makeba,  experimented wildly with drugs and alcohol, and stumbled into  adventure after adventure. And through the hit musical Sarafina  (which he conceived with Mbongeni Ngema), the Graceland  tour he spearheaded with Paul Simon, and his fearless on-the ground  activism, he worked tirelessly to add his voice to the antiapartheid  movement. When he eventually returned to South  Africa, he at last found the strength to confront the personal  demons that had tracked him around the world, and attained a  new measure of peace at home.","brand":"Jacana Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47141785043184,"sku":"9781431423637","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781431423637_p0.jpg?v=1763753592","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781431423637","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}