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''Stand Your Ground'' is a 1984 album by
Juluka Juluka was a South African music band formed in 1969 by Johnny Clegg and Sipho Mchunu. means "sweat" in Zulu, and was the name of a bull owned by Mchunu. The band was closely associated with the mass movement against apartheid. History At th ...
, a South African band led by
Johnny Clegg Jonathan Paul Clegg, (7 June 195316 July 2019) was a South African musician, singer-songwriter, dancer, anthropologist and anti-apartheid activist, some of whose work was in musicology focused on the music of indigenous South African people ...
and
Sipho Mchunu Sipho Mchunu (born 1951, Kranskop, South Africa) is best known for his work in the band Juluka from the 1970s to the 1980s. Mchunu's compositions, vocals and guitar work brought Zulu folk styles such as maskanda and mbaqanga to a wider audience b ...
. The album was distributed by
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in select countries of Europe and the Americas. The album debuted four new Juluka songs: "Kilimanjaro", "Look into the Mirror", "Fever", and "Crazy Woman". The six remaining tracks are songs that were previously released on Juluka's 1983 album, '' Work for All''. In
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and
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, an alternate album was released: ''
The International Tracks ''The International Tracks'' is a 1984 EP collecting various singles and remixed tracks by Juluka, a South African band led by Johnny Clegg and Sipho Mchunu. The songs on this album had all been previously released internationally but not in Sout ...
'' (MINC, 1984). This 7-track EP has the same cover art and new songs as ''Stand Your Ground''. The difference is that, instead of the songs from ''Work for All'', ''The International Tracks'' has two new remixes and one reissued track: "Umbaqanga Music" from the 1982 album ''
Scatterlings ''Scatterlings'' is a studio album by Juluka, a South African band led by Johnny Clegg and Sipho Mchunu. It was released in 1982. The album contains "Scatterlings of Africa", arguably the band's biggest hit (which would be re-recorded to more i ...
''. The title ''Stand Your Ground'' is a translation of the Zulu title of the track "Mana Lapho".


Track listing

# Kilimanjaro 3:42 # Look into the Mirror 3:38 # December African Rain 4:22 # Mana Lapho (Stand Your Ground) 3:52 # Work For All 3:56 # Fever 3:45 # Mantombana 3:40 # Crazy Woman 4:15 # Bullets For Bafazane 3:53 # Walima' Mabele 4:19


Personnel

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Johnny Clegg Jonathan Paul Clegg, (7 June 195316 July 2019) was a South African musician, singer-songwriter, dancer, anthropologist and anti-apartheid activist, some of whose work was in musicology focused on the music of indigenous South African people ...
- vocals, guitar *
Sipho Mchunu Sipho Mchunu (born 1951, Kranskop, South Africa) is best known for his work in the band Juluka from the 1970s to the 1980s. Mchunu's compositions, vocals and guitar work brought Zulu folk styles such as maskanda and mbaqanga to a wider audience b ...
- guitar, percussion, vocals * Gary Van Zyl - bass guitar, percussion, vocals * Derek de Beer - drums, percussion, vocals * Glenda Millar - keyboards, vocals * Cyril Mnculwane - keyboards, vocals * Scorpion Madondo - flute, saxophone, vocals


External links

* * {{Authority control Juluka albums 1984 compilation albums