#shosholoza

[austentatious]

[...] It does not matter how long we have

been kept in cages.

It does not matter how strong your gravity is.

We were always meant to fly.

Shosholoza | Sarah Kay

[musicainextenso]

Music from Africa Part 4: Shosholoza

I'm taking you to my home country South Africa for two songs in my series about music from Africa. The first song is Shosholoza, a Ndebele folk song that has become so popular in South Africa that it's often called the unofficial anthem.

The song originated with Ndebele men who used to travel by steam train from Zimbabwe to South Africa's gold mines. ("Sho sho" uses onomatopoeia to imitate the sound of a steam train.) It was usually sung in a call and response style: one man sang a solo line and the group responded by copying him.

It was also sung by prisoners, including South African President Nelson Mandela while doing hard labour in the prison on Robben Island. He described it as a song that compares the apartheid struggle to the motion of an oncoming train. According to him, the singing made the work lighter.

Nowadays it's mostly sung at sporting events to show solidarity. It was also used in the soundtrack of the movie Invictus, a 2009 biographical drama based on Mandela's life during the 1995 Rugby World Cup in South Africa. Which, may I add, we won.

Tomorrow: a song called Weeping.

Today in Tokyo (who lives in Tokyo but was born in South Africa)

@todayintokyo 

[murderingmoonlight]

Today my first article got published and it's so exciting to see my name printed in an important magazine, I'm almost hyperventilating!

It's about South Africa, by the way

[travelingcheapskates]

Pearl's shower on the move experience.

[miss-nobodys-things]

Vamos hacia adelante - Bantu ndebele (Invictus, 2009) 🙌

[042jam]

Kurt Darren & Soweto Gospel Choir – Shosholoza

Kurt Darren & Soweto Gospel Choir – Shosholoza

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South African singer, songwriter and television presenter, Kurt Johan van Heerden better known as Kurt Darren dished out another new impressive single titled “Shosholoza” in collaboration with South African gospel group, Soweto Gospel Choir.

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[arunsilva]

A little clip from pop and world music of our lovely lecturer Jackie teaching us a lovely song in one of our last seminars of last term, hope you enjoy it as much as we did singing it 😊 thank you to everyone for also making it such an awesome year, looking forward to continuing everything into the new year 😊🎉#shosholoza #harmonies #popandworldmusic #seminar #practical #fun #musicmaking #unikent #unikentcmat #smfacreative #proudtobekent #100percentkent (at The Historic Dockyard Chatham) https://www.instagram.com/p/BsBUvkmA2ze/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1gcf2gi1q87u5

[kattahj]

Gärdebylåten/Shosholoza

This mashup is too long and unwieldy for vidding, and the idea is kind of tacky anyway considering the song is tied to important charity work and all...

...but I still can’t help kind of wanting this for Mixen.

Of course, the joke would be lost on anyone who’s not aware that Gärdebylåten in the 50s was given new lyrics for a comedy about Genghis Khan, and has since been known as “Härjarevisan” = “The Pillager Song”.