SOUTH AFRICA
PART 4
BELLWORK: DEFINE TERMS
Creolization: As a result of colonization there was a mixture between people of
indigenous, African, and European descent.
Sharpeville Massacre: 60 black Africans murdered while protesting Apartheid
legislation.
Portamento glides: when the vocalist falls or slides to the lower pitch on
sustained tones.
Re-africanization: to give control of the government back to the Africans; to re-
establish African culture.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Test on South Africa Tuesday May 6th.
Reading Outline #23 due this Thursday, May 1st.
OUTCOMES
Scholars Will:
Grammar: Learn basic facts about South African music
Logic: Learn how to gumboot dance
SHARPEVILLE MASSACRE
GUIDED NOTES
The growth of the economy just before the apartheid increased
communication between ethnic groups
African music is social. All performers submit to the invisible conductor
of the collective.
King Kong: the first African Musical with black south African performers,
musicians and narrative 1950’s
South Africans are one of the first countries in the world to run a
successful multicultural democrary
HOW DANCE AND MELODY SHAPE ARE
RELATED
Leading tone “lifts the melody back onto the tone center.”
This corresponds to concepts of dissonance and resolution.
This melodic movement corresponds with the raising, dipping and
turning the body.
During a dissonant note—a leading tone, the body may turn or dip.
When returning to the tonic, or resolving the chord, the body may be
raised.
ACTIVE LISTENING #5
AFRICA
Name all the instruments you hear in this track.
In which genre would you classify this song?
What makes this song sound South African?
JUST THE FACTS #5
AFRICA
This song represents the brotherhood many South Africans feel for
African-Americans and their struggles against racial oppression.
This song is a perfect example of Capetown Jazz.
This song speaks of a longing for Africa and a vision for a new nation. It
is prophetic in nature, for when this song was written in the 1980’s
there was little hope for change or a bright future.
The vocalist is Sathima Bea Benjamin
CFU: LEARN GUMBOOT DANCE
INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEOS
STEP #1
Hit 1 2 3 4
Then do that 3 times
Hit your knee with your right hand,
step first with your right foot.
Note: Hits are very quick.
STEP #2
Hit both hands on each thigh, then stamp
Hit stamp Hit stamp 3 4
Do this step 3 times
STEP #3
Turn to your right in a circle: “I fly”
Hit Right Left Hit right left hit right clap left
Then turn the other way
Hit right left Hit right left hit right clap left
CHARACTERISTICS OF SOUTH AFRICAN
MUSICAL LANGUAGE:
NAME THREE
Non-verbal utterances
Tonal Language
Words articulate life experience
COMMON BELIEFS OF THE ZULU AND
TSWANA PEOPLES
A belief in:
the continuing existence between the living and the
dead
Healing
Prophecy
ZULU PHILOSOPHY
“Man can only become fully human
through his relationships with his fellow
men”
NAME THREE
Characteristics of South African Musical language:
Non-verbal utterances
Tonal Language
Words articulate life experience
CFU: CLICK!-VIDEO
Xhosa is a “click” language, related to the Zulu language.
Three different click sounds are used:
1. “c” is a soft click.
2. “q” is a harder click—with the tongue to the sides of the teeth
3. “x” is like the sound of a galloping horse
CFU: SOLFEGE
CURWEN HAND
SIGNS
IN SOUTH AFRICA,
CHOIRS SING
PIECES COMPLETELY
IN SOLFEGE BEFORE
ADDING ANY
WORDS.
SIGNING SIMPLE SOLFEGE
Warm-up to sing:
Breathing, Buzz,Vowels
Hand signs first
1. Do Re Mi Re Do
2. Do Re Mi Fa Mi Re Do
3. Do Re Mi Fa So Fa Mi Re Do
SKIPPING
1. So Mi Mi
2. So Mi Do
3. So Mi Do Do Do
4. So Fa Mi Re Do
SOLFEGE AND MUSIC
Solfege corresponds to written music in the following way:
Do=C
Re=D
Mi=E
Fa=F
So=G
La=A
Ti=B
TRANSLATE THIS MUSIC INTO SOLFEGGE
C D E D C
C D E F G A B C
C C E E G G C
C E D E D C
GUIDED NOTES
Musical performance often reflected, resisted, or predicted these socio-
political changes.
The tempo of most South African music is slow.
Zulu favor types of word distortion regarding syllable length and
placement, often elongating certain vowels and stressing syllables on offbeats.
Many Instrumental pieces are transcriptions of vocal pieces.
ACTIVE LISTENING #6
GUMBOOT VIDEO
There are 3 types of percussion demonstrated here. They are:
There are 4 types of vocalization here. They are:
JUST THE FACTS #6
GUMBOOT VIDEO
Dancers used bottle caps on the bottom of their boots for rattles, or
pebbles in shoe polish tins.
The purpose of gumboot dance is to lighten the load of communal labor.
EXIT TICKET
Name two common beliefs of the Zulu and Tswana peoples:
How do the Zulu sing words differently than when they speak them?
Name two characteristics of South African Musical language:
What is re-africanization?
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