单词 | isicathamiya |
释义 | isicathamiyan. South African. Music. A style of unaccompanied singing originating amongst rural Zulu male choirs.Popularized internationally in the late 20th cent. esp. by the group Ladysmith Black Mambazo. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > [noun] > style of singing musica ficta1786 stile rappresentativo1886 sing-song1893 bel canto1894 throat singing1916 quasi parlando1959 isicathamiya1974 1974 M. P. Gwala Black Rev. 1973 (Black Community Programmes) xiii. 114 Groups such as Inqaba Yabe Suthu led by Sydney Mkhize were busy breaking the long bottled-up Sicathamiya music. 1988 Pace (Johannesburg) May 7 Everybody knows that Isicathamiya has all these years been regarded as music of the rustics. Sophisticated blacks wouldn't be seen dead appreciating this kind of ‘junk’. 1997 B. McCrea et al. S. Afr.: Rough Guide iii. 686/1 The most famous of all South Africa's neo-traditional music is the great Zulu invention of iscathamiya, sometimes also called mbube. 2005 New Yorker 11 Apr. 6/1 Over the years the South-African group's take on Zulu isicathamiya music..has earned them an international following. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1974 |
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