Creative Economy/2017/34 min/Reel № 17.001
ByHugh Masekela, Stewart Levine
Hugh Masekela in conversation with Stewart Levine
Inspiration Is Nothing Without Action/Recorded 2017
A close reading, kept within reach.
Hugh Masekela takes creative economy as a lens on the larger question the festival keeps returning to: what design owes to the people and places it works among. The talk moves from specific projects toward a broader argument about practice.
Recorded in South Africa in 2017, the conversation is grounded in Hugh's own working method — the compromises, the constraints, and the moments where the work taught them something they didn't expect.
The closing turn is characteristic of the archive: less a conclusion than a provocation, handed to the audience to carry into their own disciplines.
#DIarchives: In 2011 Hugh Masekela sat down with long-time collaborator American producer, Stewart Levine to discuss his career on the Design Indaba stage.
About the speaker
Hugh Masekela
Johannesburg/South Africa
Born in 1939, South African trumpeter, bandleader, composer and lyricist, Hugh Masekela, is loved by jazz, bebop, funk and Afrobeat fans the world over.
Stewart Levine
New York/USA
Stewart Levine is an American record producer who has worked with the likes of BB King, Jamie Cullum, Lionel Ritchie, Simply Red and Hugh Masekela.
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