Goema Music article (South Africa)

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Greetings,

In the latest issue of Perfect Sound Forever <http://www.perfectsoundforever.com>, you'll find (among other things):

GOEMA MUSIC
South African carnival music by Richard Haslop
""Late night someone takes a drum and we go goema, goema, goema / You make a right decision in the right direction." This is the entire lyrical content of a song by 1980's Cape Town band the Genuines, though probably not, in the context
of '80's South Africa, its entire meaning. The song, on the band's 1986 debut album for South African independent label, Shifty Records, is called Goema. So is the album. It's either named after the musical form, alternatively spelt
ghoema, that can be considered traditional among the Coloured people of Cape Town, or the carnival drum after which the music itself is named. "



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