- Sokkie
A sokkie is a
social dance with a partner popular with someAfrikaner s.It is also referred to in
Afrikaans as "langarm", a term used to describe the style of dance at a sokkie.The word sokkie refers to the way people dance in their socks, without shoes. This is not always the case, but this type of dancing is always called sokkie.Folklore has it that this type of dancing was taken from the American style: Sock-Hop.
The emergence of a particular style of commercialised sokkie-music in recent years is of particular note. Examples of artists are
Kurt Darren ,Nicholis Louw , andJuanita du Plessis , among many others.It is the opinion of some that the amateurish style and nonsensical lyrics of "sokkiejoltreffers" (could be translated as sokkie-fun-hits) has earned "Afrikaans music" a bad name among most audiences in South Africa. As sokkiejoltreffers is a form of Afrikaans pop music, it receives the most airplay and high-profile marketing of any genre.
A favourite method of sokkie creating music or songs is to take successful English songs and translate them into Afrikaans. Or use the tune of another successful song for their song.
Nicholis Louw even used the ringtone Blue Horizon from a Sony Ericsson cellphone for the tune of his hit song - Rock Daai Lyfie.An column from Beeld's archive: [http://152.111.1.251/argief/berigte/beeld/2006/09/30/Z3/2/cmsokkiejol.html Afrikaners onplesierig met sokkiejoltreffers]
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