Graham Downs on Nostr: nprofile1q…eljje *waves cane at Salty* When I was your age, SONNY.... :P I guess a ...
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When I was your age, SONNY.... :P
I guess a parallel of sorts could be that in South Africa (I'm sure this is true of most countries in the world with a strong representation from a particular language), Afrikaans music is pretty big. And current; new music and new artists -- of multiple skin tones, if it matters -- are coming up all the time. And it runs the gamut of genres, we have Afrikaans rap, Afrikaans country (historically that was a pretty big chunk) and folk, Afrikaans pop....
And for some people, it can be really polarising. Some Afrikaans people I know can't stand ANY Afrikaans music, because they just find it too cringe. My wife, who's Afrikaans, has a few favourites, both old and new, but for the most part she's not a fan. My Afrikaans-speaking foster daughters (17 and 19) generally like it.
In terms of "black music" here, most of it (I stand to be corrected) is in indigenous languages, and most non-black people in South Africa can't speak any indigenous languages... at least not very well, so if we like it, we like it for the beat. Famously, the song that makes every white person think they can dance like a black man any time it comes on at parties, is Mandoza's Nkalakatha, even though most of us have no clue what the lyrics mean. :-D
But even mentioning that song is giving away my age, because it was released in 2000 already, and the man passed away in 2016 (his wife was in High School with me, and we still interact with each other on Facebook).
When I was your age, SONNY.... :P
I guess a parallel of sorts could be that in South Africa (I'm sure this is true of most countries in the world with a strong representation from a particular language), Afrikaans music is pretty big. And current; new music and new artists -- of multiple skin tones, if it matters -- are coming up all the time. And it runs the gamut of genres, we have Afrikaans rap, Afrikaans country (historically that was a pretty big chunk) and folk, Afrikaans pop....
And for some people, it can be really polarising. Some Afrikaans people I know can't stand ANY Afrikaans music, because they just find it too cringe. My wife, who's Afrikaans, has a few favourites, both old and new, but for the most part she's not a fan. My Afrikaans-speaking foster daughters (17 and 19) generally like it.
In terms of "black music" here, most of it (I stand to be corrected) is in indigenous languages, and most non-black people in South Africa can't speak any indigenous languages... at least not very well, so if we like it, we like it for the beat. Famously, the song that makes every white person think they can dance like a black man any time it comes on at parties, is Mandoza's Nkalakatha, even though most of us have no clue what the lyrics mean. :-D
But even mentioning that song is giving away my age, because it was released in 2000 already, and the man passed away in 2016 (his wife was in High School with me, and we still interact with each other on Facebook).