Kruger’s lost voice : nation and race in pre-World War 1 Afrikaans music records

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dc.contributor.authorVan der Merwe, Schalk D.en_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2016-11-02T12:08:20Z
dc.date.available2016-11-02T12:08:20Z
dc.date.issued2015-05
dc.descriptionCITATION: Van der Merwe, S. D. 2015. Kruger’s lost voice : nation and race in pre-World War 1 Afrikaans music records. Historia, 60(1):110-128, doi:10.17159/2309-8392/2015/v60n1a7.en_ZA
dc.descriptionThe original publication is available at http://www.scielo.org.zaen_ZA
dc.description.abstractOn a theoretical level, popular music records serve as artefacts of the social and cultural networks in which their particular performers are embedded. Seen from this perspective, the appearance of the earliest Afrikaans gramophone records coincided with a crucial juncture in the formation of Afrikaner identity, as well as the development of the language itself. This article is a forensic investigation into the socio-political contexts in which the first Afrikaans gramophone records were produced. Its sources include updated discographic catalogues that have led to the discovery of listings of a number of recordings that pre-date the previously earliest known Africana and Afrikaans records. Most of the first Africana recordings were of the national anthems of the two Boer republics during and shortly after the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) and sung by Dutch singers. The first Afrikaans recordings by people beginning to define themselves as Afrikaners, date back to 1906, while local advertisements for Afrikaans records began to appear in 1910. This article will seek to explore the link between these recordings and claims for nationhood based on the linguistic identity of a key group of white Afrikaans speakers.en_ZA
dc.description.urihttp://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0018-229X2015000100007&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en
dc.description.versionPublisher's versionen_ZA
dc.format.extent19 pages : illustrationsen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationVan der Merwe, S. D. 2015. Kruger’s lost voice : nation and race in pre-World War 1 Afrikaans music records. Historia, 60(1):110-128, doi:10.17159/2309-8392/2015/v60n1a7.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn2309-8392 (online)
dc.identifier.issn0018-229X (print)
dc.identifier.otherdoi:10.17159/2309-8392/2015/v60n1a7
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/99812
dc.language.isoen_ZAen_ZA
dc.publisherHistorical Association of South Africaen_ZA
dc.rights.holderHistorical Association of South Africaen_ZA
dc.subjectAfrikaans language -- Historyen_ZA
dc.subjectAfrikaans musicen_ZA
dc.subjectAfrikaners -- Linguistic identityen_ZA
dc.subjectAfrikaner national anthemsen_ZA
dc.titleKruger’s lost voice : nation and race in pre-World War 1 Afrikaans music recordsen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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