Packet 5: Tossup 7

A book about “jazz, popular music, and politics” in this country by Gwen Ansell is titled for a protest song later released on the album You Told Your Mama Not to Worry. The song “Sad Times, Bad Times” appears in a “jazz opera” from this country titled for the nickname of a boxer (10[1])named Ezekiel. (10[1])Jazz musicians in this country frequently play a folk song named for the arrival of the Confederate Navy ship Alabama. At (-5[1])one point in the 1950s, this country’s most popular vocal group was an all-female band (10[1])called (10[1])The Skylarks. A visit from Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers inspired the formation of this country’s first bebop group, the Jazz Epistles, which (10[1])included Abdullah Ibrahim and Hugh Masekela. (10[3])For (10[1])10 (10[2])points, name this country of origin of Miriam Makeba, (10[3]-5[1])whose signature song “Pata (10[2])Pata” is in the Xhosa (“KOH-sah”) language. (10[1])■END■ (10[4]0[1])

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