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Zulu Musical Instruments, important To build Musical Traditions In Africa

African music is the music of Africans who live in a large region of 50 nations, each with a extra culture, history and language, South of Sahara. Zulu musical instruments are part of this multilingual culture. African music has some obvious characteristics: the use of repetition is one of them. an additional one prominent characteristic is the polyphony; this is the combination of different musical parts played simultaneously.

Zulu Musical Instruments, important To build Musical Traditions In Africa

The history is marked by the awesome military strategies of the Zulu King Shaka. The King's and his warriors' campaign of expansion is well known in world history. Zulu rich former culture includes songs, dances and colorful rituals, Zulu musical instruments are spectacular and original. A range of Zulu musical instruments are well known, s well as the former Mine dance; Zulus have longtime used their music as a cry for freedom.

African music is precisely rich in modes of expression: drum ensembles are using Zulu musical instruments from the percussion family. Each drummer uses extra methods to produce sounds to distinguish his drum from the others. Iron bells are very beloved Zulu musical instruments; they are used to produce a repeated sound to help the drummers to play at the literal, time.

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Fun Facts About South Africa

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Fun Facts About South Africa

Perhaps the most supreme South African movie is "Tsotsi" by Gavin Hood."Tsotsi" is a story about a gang leader.On March 5, 2006, "Tsotsi" won the Academy Award for Foreign Language Film in Los Angeles.
In his speech, Gavin Hood said, "God bless Africa. Wow. I have a speech, it´s in my pocket, but that thing says 38 seconds. But mine´s way too long. Go to tsotsi.com and there is a huge long list of people. Because I´m accepting this not for myself. This is for best foreign language film. It is sitting right there to start with.Please stand up Presley Chweneyagae and Terry Pheto. My two remarkable young leads. Put the cameras on them, please. Viva Africa. Viva. I´ve got ten seconds.Ten seconds I just want to thank my fellow nominees who I´ve become deep friends with. We may have foreign language films, but our stories are the same as your stories. They´re about the human heart and emotion. It says please wrap.Thank you so much. Thank you to the Academy. Thank you".
Winner: "Tsotsi" (South Africa)
Finalists:
-"Sophie Scholl" (Germany)
-"Joyeux Noel" (France)
-"The Beast of the Heart" (Italy)
-"Paradise Now" (Palestine)

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