AFRIKAANSALTERNATIVE POPULAR MUSIC 1986 - 1990 : ANANALYSI.S OF -,,', . THE MUSIC 'OF BERNOLDUS" NIEMAND . AND JOHANNES KERKORREL. ' ~. .--: I ' ~ [\, - BRENDAN:, " "~ iSMIT , !l.' " ,' 1£~ , ;, THIS LONG ESSAY IS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF A BACHELOR OF MUSIC DEGREE I CERTIFY THAT UNLESS OTHERWISE SPECIFIED THIS LONG ESSAY IS MY OWN ORIGINAL WORK. 1 In t.he la"Le 19805 Lne South African alternative media documented Lne emergence of a small but popular music movement WlLn~n Afrikaans youth culturec By movement pnenomenlc. - generaLing musical events of the magnitude of Houtstok (South Africals first rack festival wnlcn was attended by more Lnan twenty thousand people)i and the Voelvry tour (a national by In 199t) even Newsweek documented Lne significance 0: Aflikaans ffiLtsic Afrikaans alternative ffiLtsic made a deep impression on the Afrikaans and~ aLSO White English South consciousness. In 1989; Shaun de Waal documented the significance of the Voelvry tour~ 2 HTr~e S.l.mp le cDnjLtr~ction of i-oek n 1-011 ar:d Af:-ikaans .l.n the form of the Voelvry tour has caused more of a stir in the South African music-consuming public than anything since the teenybopper hysteria of the Rabbitt days and by the emergence of tr~is - fnL~S.l.C mOVefrieu"L. = Afrikaans alternative music expressed a r~or~-~3.cceptance DT nationalist ideology and DfTered a critical re-appraisal of hegemonic Afrikaner culture: th i s fnes-=~age such enthusiasm that fnL~sic C~-3:me be seer~ and music \came ~o De recognised ·3:5 Lne manifestation of the emergence of an Afrikaans cQunter- culture in Afrikaner youth5~ both by Afrikaner cultural , 'l- ana Ll;!:: A concerted eTTor~ was made by the cultural of Afrikaner hegemony to suppress LnlS Rathbone reported lTI 1989; 3 obscurity to public notoriety seems thoroughly to have Religious protest~ bannings and nega~lve reporting Dy the alternative popular music; , , been neapeo !:In dignitaries of the Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk, the nas banned mOSL OT Lne songs on the Voelvry albLuT~=:I: = call Band:s album Eet Kreef~; and most of Bernoldus Niemand~s albuffi= Anci it oevcrted Netwerk LW a e~{ami'natic:n this the Afrikaans alternative musicians became a Before Lne recent development of alternative Afrikaans popular music~ Afrikaans popular music had oeen~ in most cha1- .3:cte~-i s.eo bar:al ffiLisical acted as a conservatoire Tor hegemonic Afrikaner ideology= The escapist~ fantasy- I"·f· '''''1' ....j ;;1 "0 '1::1 IJI (~" 1,·1. 1''''" ..··1 !:U ::1 ...:!.. 1..·,,1 I.n f1 ::1 " Cl r"'" . :3 :1: .. ....I ~ I.ot( Cl :::r f"1 I:: Cl, (:I ::J" 1"1" J:J (:I :::1 ..II 1::1 I:: I:::l ~1I £Li Cl !:1I ....j .. 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