Word: bushveld
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Pacific coast and on around to the Bosporus, Decca had collected a rich variety of old and new music of the people, by the people and - at 35? a crack - for a good many people. Album items: Songs of the South African Veld, sung by Josef Marais and his Bushveld band. Part Huguenot, part Dutch and a lot of just plain cowboy is the music of the Transvaal. Sarie Marais, the song of a Boer girl waiting in the mealies (maize fields) by the old thorn tree for her lover to come back from fighting the English, should fall pleasantly...
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