South African Music For All brings together 20 of South Africa's best-loved folk songs, complete with music, lyrics, stories, explanatory notes and culturally appropriate illustrations.
The book includes notation and explanations for songs usually passed down through oral and sung tradition. Traditional songs are one of the richest sources of cultural and national pride, and this book is created in that spirit, a celebration of South Africa, and an addition to the South African nation-building project aimed at learners, teachers and schools.
South African Music For All is a useful resource for sharing songs from across the country's rich cultural spectrum. It aims to help to give children and adults from across South Africa a sense of ownership of their cultural songs, while helping to build national cohesion by sharing songs from other cultures. South African Music For All includes songs in English, Afrikaans, isiXhosa, isiZulu, Sesotho, Setswana, Tshivenda and the Khelobedu dialect of Sepedi.
This fun, easily accessible book comes with simple sheet-music notation and lyrics so you can be playing and singing along in minutes.
Song List:
- Nants 'inswempe
- Click Song
- Siponono Sam
- Vat jou goed en trek
- Byeshoza
- Ukuthula
- Jikel' emaweni
- Ntate Mogolo
- Dina Kanaa Kina
- Thungununu Nemulambo
- Mmangwane
- Marching to Pretoria
- Shosholoza
- Tša Matebele
- Senzeni Na?
- Jan Pierewiet
- Thula Thula
- Tsoang Tsoang Tsoang
- Daar kom die Alibama
- Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika