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The song was usually sung to express the hardship of working in the mines. It expresses heartache over the hard work performed in the mines. The word Shosholoza or "tshotsholoza!" means go forward or make way for the next man, in Ndebele. [5] It is used as a term of encouragement and hope for the workers as a sign of solidarity.
The Four Lads' version of Skokiaan became the theme song at "Africa U.S.A. Park", a 300-acre (1.2 km 2) theme park founded in 1953 at Boca Raton, Florida by John P. Pedersen. The song was played all day long in the parking lot as guests arrived and was sold in the gift shop. The park boasted the largest collection of camels in the United States.
The original soundtrack erroneously credits all of the music for the film to Johnny Boshoff. Many of the musical contributions appearing in the film were composed by Jack Trombey (a pseudonym for Dutch composer Jan Stoeckart) and feature Fred Mann playing the pan pipes, but were never attributed on the record sleeve. Trombey's compositions were ...
Team Shosholoza is a yacht racing team representing Royal Cape Yacht Club of Cape Town, South Africa, competing in the 2007 America's Cup.. The name Shosholoza refers to a popular South African indigenous song and is used in an attempt to encompass the African spirit of "pushing and pulling together".
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In the November 7, 1963 issue of Down Beat magazine, critic Harvey Pekar awarded the album 5 stars and said that "Golson's improvising is outstanding; I doubt that he's ever before played as consistently well on record."
This has been contradicted by anti-apartheid activist/musician Johnny Clegg, [9] who has claimed that "by the 1960s, the development of mbaqanga hadn't even really started". Mbaqanga (or umbaquanga) has been characterised as urban pop music "with high-pitched, choppy guitar and a powerful bass line" influenced by "funk, reggae, American R&B ...
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