The Voëlvry Movement
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title:
The Voëlvry Movement
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The Voëlvry movement in South Africa was a genre of anti-apartheid music sung in Afrikaans. The term Voëlvry means both "free as a bird" and "outlaw". This movement has been said to have started on April 4, 1989 in Johannesburg in a packed club. This marked the beginning of what some have called a rock and roll uprising. The Voëlvry movement used music in the Afrikaans language to show pride. The movement focused on Afrikaner youth. The main goal of the movement was to get Afrikaner youth to see
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Afrikaans alternate music scene in the final years of Apartheid
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vo%C3%ABlvry_Movement
date created:
2014-03-25T20:38:24Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T19:24:48Z
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