The Voelvry movement

The Afrikaans-dialect music saw a rebirth during in the 80s as the Voelvry 9free as a bird or outlawed trend revealed a current Afrikaans ...

The Afrikaans-dialect music saw a rebirth during in the 80s as the Voelvry 9free as a bird or outlawed trend revealed a current Afrikaans artistic counter-culture vastly aggressive to the values of the National Party and conservative Afrikanerdom. Lead by the singer-songwriter Johannes Kerkorrel and his Gereformeerde Blues Ensemble, the trend (which was called after Kerkorrel’s 1989 area trip) also included artists such as Koos Kombuis and Bernoldus Niemand (also known as James Phillips). Voelvry tapped into an increasing dissatisfaction with the Apartheid system amongst white Afrikaans speaker, and though Voelvry symbolizes the musical branch of opposition that was smiliar by arts and literature.
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