Entries (RSS) Voëlvry: The Movement That Rocked South Africa
‘Voëlvry was the Boere-Woodstock,’ writes Max du Preez. ‘It was a significant movement in every social, political, cultural and musical sense of the word … “Rock revolution” just got a delicious new double meaning.’
In what the Cape Times described as ‘an unprecedented orgy of Afrikaner anarchy’, the Alternative Afrikaans Music Movement unleashed Boere Beatlemania among the youth and apoplexy within the Afrikaner establishment. At a time when South Africa was embroiled in the Border wars, PW Botha was Die Groot Krokodil and Potchefstroom University was debating whether dancing was a sin, an eccentric mix of young Afrikaans artists took to the road and became the voice of their generation. Their goal was the emancipation of Afrikaner youth from the strictures of their authoritarian, patriarchal culture, and they would make it cool to be an Afrikaner. This book, based on interviews with participants and observers, reconstructs those heady days. It is a rollicking read that will appeal to those who were there, those who say they were there and those who wish they were there. Illustrated with photographs of the event. |
