Share in these Stolen Moments
Stolen Moments - Namibian Music History Untold, opens in the Independence Memorial Museum at 15:00 on Friday (9 December).Stolen Moments is a collaborative project of the National Museum of Namibia with the Werkstatt Ökonomie Kirchliche Arbetisstelle Südliches Afrika (KASA) and the University of Bayreuth, Germany.
The exhibition is a celebration of the stories of Namibia's unsung musical heroes. It is aimed at telling the story of those who, despite the propagated oppression, formed bands, resisted cultural imposition, followed global trends, experimented with traditional sounds, played every weekend in backdoor ballrooms and danced their way through decades of racial injustice, and to revive Namibian underground pop culture from the 1950s to the late 1980s.
The exhibition is curated by Namibian scholars and produced in co-production with an international group of artists, filmmakers and photographers to showcase an extensive photographic collection, a 120-minute video projection that revisits the dance styles of the 1950s-80s, 13 listening stations featuring Namibia's music legends, a sound installation that explores a selection of over 100 hours of interviews with musicians and contemporary witnesses and a large collection of record covers, and music memorabilia that profiles Namibia's under-represented musical subcultures.