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latestalbum,Popstar.BYHARRY TAFOYA|PAGE76 DANCE12 ABTChristopher Jackson,back as George Washington inStaging 'Pithoprakta,'a rarely seen Balanchine workIn a new exhibition,a Danish artist fascinated byHamilton,'still has something to prove.BY SARAH BAHRset to an extraterrestrial score.BYGIA KOURLASwetlands brings the swamp to MoMA.BY FRANK ROSE  \n5 THEATER  \n2 AR  \nInsideCulture  \nTHIS WEEKFROM THEARTS DESK  \nIN THE ISSUE  \nSienna Miller has spent years pursued by paparazzi.Carla Duval,the woman she plays in the new HBOseries \"War,\"is also an actress scrutinzed by the media.\"I found it would be interesting to play someonewho operates in the world that I exist in with a very different personality,\"Miller saidPAGE 10  \n# Paul Simon's Culture Clash Album,'Graceland,'at 40\n\nBy LINDSAY ZOLADZ  \nPaul Simons “Graceland”still generates new fans,and heated discussion,40 years after its 1986 release.It's also the subject of Ashley Kahn's book\"Days of Miracle and Wonder:Paul Simon and the Trials and Triumphs ofGraceland.\"The album found Simon drawing inspiration from and bring-ing Western attention to South African artists like Ladysmith Black Mam-bazo,the Boyoyo Boys and General M.D.Shirinda and the Gaza Sisters.  \nA singular kind of culture clash occurred when Simon added his owncosmopolitan American poetry atop the jubilant grooves of Soweto jive,sprinkling in some zydeco and Chicano rock for good measure.Whetherthe album is a work of common cultural appropriation or a rare exampleof cross-continental cooperation done right has long been a topic of de-bate.Here are a few songs that inspired Simon to create “Graceland.”\"  \n## 1.JOHNSON MKHALALI:\n\n'SUNSHINE BOOTS'  \nIn the summer of1984,Paul Simon often drovebetween New York City and Montauk,where hewas building a beach house.His preferred sound-track for these solo drives was a bootleg tape ofSouth African music that had been lent to him bythe singer-songwriter Heidi Berg.The earlyinspiration for what would become “Gracelandwas kindled during those trips,as Simon becameentranced by the bright sound and buoyantgrooves of mbaqanga,a style that originated insegregated South Africa's Black townships.Kahnsuggests the bootleg included this instrumentaltune by the accordionist Mkhalali.  \n## 2.PAULSIMON:GUMBOOTS(WITH THEBOYOYO BOYSy\n\nmTR  a  \nPaul Simon performing on the Graceland tour in 1987.  \nIn February 1985,Simon traveled to Johan-nesburg to jam with some of the musicians hehad been listening to,in hopes that the sessionswould generate material for his next album.Onegroup he played withthere was the Boyoyo Boysincluding Mkhalali—who were past their  \nprime but reunited fo the ocasion.Togetherthey worked onthe instrumental of what wouldbecome the fourth trackon\"Graceland,\"namedfor Simon's cherished bootleg tape,which itself  \nhad been named after the thick rubber bootsworn by local gold miners.  \n## 3.LADYSMITH BLACK MAMBAZO:'NXAEBIZWA AMAGAM\n\nSimon started listening to tapes of LadysmithBlack Mambazo,the 10-piece South African choirled by Joseph Shabalala,whileon a 1983 Simon&Garfunkel tour of Australia.Their richly resonantsound would befeatured,quite memorably,ontwo“Graceland”tracks,the stirring acappellanumber\"Homeless\"and the upbeat\"Diamondson the Soles of HerShoes.\"  \n## 4.CLIFTON CHENIER:\n\n‘ACCORDIONBOOGIE'  \nThough \"Graceland\"is most often associatedwith its South African collaborations,the albumalso draws from Simon's fascination with zydeco,the bluesy,accordion-heavy sound developed insouthwest Louisiana.Kahn suggests that Simon'sinerest in zydeco was sparked by ArhoolieRecords'late-60s compilations by Clifton Chenier.\"Simon came to know and love the music,\"hewrites,“and even used the name of Chenier'sdrummer—Robert St.Judy—to help title asong on his 1973 album,There Goes Rhymin'Simon.'He called it 'St.Judy's Comet.”  \n## 5.STIMELA:“MAMAWAMI'\n\nWhile in 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JOHNSON MKHALALI: 'SUNSHINE BOOTS'\n## 2. PAUL SIMON: GUMBOOTS (WITH THE BOYOYO BOYS)\n## 3. LADYSMITH BLACK MAMBAZO: 'NXAEBIZWA AMAGAM'\n## 4. CLIFTON CHENIER: 'ACCORDION BOOGIE'\n## 5. 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