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... Letts is a member of the Music Council of Australia. Music itself most definitely predates the music industry; however the industry is very powerful. Letts believes that even though technological changes are now flooding the industry impact upon corporate structures and profits and how we get access to music, the human need for musical nourishment will survive and somehow be satisfied. An example of a contemporary musical genre used to appeal to an international audience is Paul Simon's Graceland. Kwela was a black urban genre in the 1950s and 1960s. Originally played by urban youths as "improvisational street music"1. The music itself was played on pennywhistles and guitars, (it is even suggested by David Coplan that the pennywhistle built the foundations of South African jazz). The pennywhistle features predominantly in Graceland bringing with it a complex of meanings configured around early South African jazz. This genre of music being one ...