{"id":79846,"date":"2025-02-10T12:49:40","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T12:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/african-music\/a-warm-welcome-in-kwazulu-natal\/"},"modified":"2025-02-10T12:49:40","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T12:49:40","slug":"a-warm-welcome-in-kwazulu-natal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=79846","title":{"rendered":"A Warm Welcome in KwaZulu Natal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEh_lsQIC7FA-Z_xB7cya1voTt9YsaBkKkZbfW3Q-jzTQSywhP3YcU_wU9RSWFFhFJ7XkoGeWK9dhIDt2oPXx62B3JbI2I30HXCF1Vk1cWHyaAFCfvZBn7C-Nx6AspUPf2m0MfGJmuAYuHE\/s1600\/Untitled+2.tiff\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"347\" data-original-width=\"417\" height=\"332\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEh_lsQIC7FA-Z_xB7cya1voTt9YsaBkKkZbfW3Q-jzTQSywhP3YcU_wU9RSWFFhFJ7XkoGeWK9dhIDt2oPXx62B3JbI2I30HXCF1Vk1cWHyaAFCfvZBn7C-Nx6AspUPf2m0MfGJmuAYuHE\/s400\/Untitled+2.tiff\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center\"><b>Mr. Bhekani Buthelezi and Suzi working on a Ph.D. proposal for the University of Zululand<\/b><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\">\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div style=\"text-align: right\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right\">\nThe long journey from home in Boone, NC, USA to the beautiful port city of Durban, South Africa took about 30 hours , which included three airplane rides and a good deal of ground transport. &nbsp;My first reward was an early morning meeting with Bhekani Buthelezi, a faculty member at the University of Zululand who came to Durban from UniZulu to attend the South African Society for Research in Music Congress with Dennis and myself. &nbsp;The conference opened with a lecture given by Dr. Louise Meintjes on the topic of Ngoma performance practice, a type of Zulu warrior dancing, in which the dancers both compete and inspire each other through their singing and drumming. &nbsp; &nbsp;The entertainment that followed included an amazing array of South African dance, drum and song styles&#8230;an aesthetic feast.<\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgVB5roL91PQlkAxMaqlintEDy3uIQWe2Gk1qsZq44HKuRlYc-sZNnm7NGi4u3y7GBYQarE3UdWwHFcEP9MNWr4h1RV150fGPjUZucGDv3iEl5_iNnBjc9W6rBNUgfCo_RETqthdREge-w\/s1600\/ngoma..jpg\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1237\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"494\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgVB5roL91PQlkAxMaqlintEDy3uIQWe2Gk1qsZq44HKuRlYc-sZNnm7NGi4u3y7GBYQarE3UdWwHFcEP9MNWr4h1RV150fGPjUZucGDv3iEl5_iNnBjc9W6rBNUgfCo_RETqthdREge-w\/s640\/ngoma..jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center\">\n<h2>\nRe-enactment of Ngoma Music and Dance during competition at the Old Mutual National Choir Festival.&nbsp; <i>Photo by Dennis Mills.&nbsp;<\/i><\/h2>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\">\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Bhekani Buthelezi and Suzi working on a Ph.D. proposal for the University of Zululand The long journey from home in Boone, NC, USA to the beautiful port city of Durban, South Africa took about 30 hours , which included three airplane rides and a good deal of ground transport. &nbsp;My first reward was an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12025],"tags":[40198,40199,219],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-79846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-african-music","tag-kwazulu","tag-natal","tag-warm"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - 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