Goema Ngoku
The famous Cape Jazz musician, Abdullah Ibrahim (aka Dollar Brand), at the Moers Festival 2011. By Michael Hoefner via Wikimedia Commons, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported.
I-Goema ifumaneka kwisingqi kunye nesixhobo sesandi se-Kaapse Klopse. ICape Jazz nayo igcina imikhondo enamandla yegoema.
Album Cover of Healing Destination released in 2013.
IiGenuines (uMac McKenzie, u-Hilton Schilder, uGerard O'Brien kunye no-Ian Herman) benza umzamo ophumelelayo wokuwela i-goema nge-rock kunye ne-punk kwi-1980s.
UMac McKenzie (1951-2024) wayenokudibana ubomi bonke kunye ne-goema eyaqala noyise, uMnu Mac, umdlali we-banjo kunye nenkokeli yeqela laseCornwall. Emva kweGenuines, uMac watshintsha ibhes yakhe wasebenzisa ikatala waza wenza iiKapteni zeGoema zaseKapa; waphinda walingela iokhestra yegoema.
Click here to listen to Mac McKenzie and the Genuines.
Click here to view short video “Goema Goema - Mac McKenzie & the Goema Captains of Cape Town”
U-Hilton Schilder naye wayevela kusapho lomculo. Uyise, uTony Schilder naye wayengumdlali weqela kunye nomdlali wepiyano owaziwayo. U-Hilton ube negalelo ekubumbeni isandi sento namhlanje eyaziwa ngokuba yiCape Jazz, kwaye usaqhubeka nokudlala indima ebalulekileyo kuphuhliso lwengoma ye-goema.
Taliep Petersen and David Kramer, Baxter Theatre, 2006. Photograhp by Johan Wilke, courtesy of David Kramer.
UTaliep Petersen (1950 - 2006) kunye nomculo kaDavid Kramer, Ghoema! (2005) ubalisa ngembali yeKapa yobukhoboka kunye nokuguqulwa kwayo. Umphengululi uPaula Fourie uphawula ukuba lo mculo wawunika abantu abathetha isiBhulu abamhlophe ubungqina bokubandakanyeka kwabo ekuguquleleni iinkolelo zabo.
UDavid Kramer uthi igoema ayilohlobo olufayo, ingelulo uhlobo oluphumelelayo. Ukuthula ixesha elide kwembali yobukhoboka eKoloni nakuMzantsi Afrika ngokubanzi, kunye nenyaniso yokuba le mbali ihleli iphantsi koloyiko lokucinywa, isenokuba yinxalenye yesi sizathu.
Iimvumi zeJazz ezifana noShane Cooper kunye noKyle Shepard balandela ngempumelelo isingqi se-goema kunye nezimbo. Iqela likaJannie van Tonder iHanepoot Brass Band yeJazz yakudala yaseAfrika kunye neengoma zazo zinemvakalelo eyomeleleyo ye-goema.
Iimvumi eziselula ezifana noJodi Jantjies kunye noBoskasie babhala iingoma ezithandwayo ngezimbo zemveli zegoema, ezinamazwi esiBhulu nesiNgesi.
Umculo weSyncretic wamkelwa njengelifa elingabambekiyo. I-Sega kunye ne-maloya yeziqithi ze-Indian Ocean; i-samba yaseBrazil; kunye nemorna yaseCabo Verde zonke zikhuselwe ngombhalo weUNESCO. UGoema akasonwabeli iMeko yeLifa leMveli eMzantsi Afrika
Ihlanganiswe nguHeidi Erdmann kunye noCarsten Rasch (ngoMeyi 2025).
References:
Ballantine, Christopher. (1993). Marabi Nights: Early South African Jazz and Vaudeville. Johannesburg: Ravan Press.
Britz, Engela (2019). Songs in the Dust: Riel Music in Northern and Western Cape Provinces, South Africa. MA Thesis.
Coplan, David. (1985) In Township Tonight!: South Africa's Black City Music and Theatre. London: Longman
Fourie, Paula. (2022). ‘Ghoema’ in Herri #08. https://herri.org.za/8/paula-fourie/
Martin, Denis-Constant. (2013). Sounding the Cape Music. Identity and Politics in South Africa. African Minds.
Muller, Stephanus. (2011). "Reshaping Remembrance ~ Boeremusiek." Rozenberg Quarterly. A Grundlingh & S Huigen (Eds.) Reshaping Remembrance. Critical Essays on Afrikaans Places of Memory. Rozenberg Publishers.
Van Heerden, Alex. https://newcape.co.za/www.newcape.co.za/alex_van_heerden.html
Winberg, Christine. (1991). ‘Satire, Slavery and the Ghoemaliedjies of the Cape Muslims’ in New Contrast, Vol. 19 (4), pp. 78-96.
In memory of Mac McKenzie and his role in keeping goema alive.
