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Thread #32794 Message #433338
Posted By: Chicken Charlie
04-Apr-01 - 06:40 PM
Thread Name: Help: Anglo/British Trad Tunes in S. Africa
Subject: Anglo/British Trad Tunes in S. Africa
OK, we know the Aussie, Canadian and US frontiers shared UK language and culture, shared types of events--like gold rushes and cattle drives--shared some individual miners, etc., and therefore shared songs. When gold was found in the old "Union of South Africa," the same scenes must have been repeated. But compared to the (relative) ease with which I can learn something about the forenamed people, including the Celtic component, Africa is a blank. Surely not everyone who went to the Rand to moil for gold was tone deaf. Anybody know what they were singin in Natal in 1890?