#shebeens

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Rikki Ililonga - Shebeen Queen (1975)

Zamrock legend Rikki Ililonga with a loving and lilting tribute to a “street walker”

She's a midnight sleeper Commercial love maker

[radiophd]

the shebeen masters -- chesta chesta

[maskaniafrobeatz]

Another old skool Shebeen Treffer is this numbas, which is a remake of an original, that I'm sure was also Mr Gwala's work. See post below.

[ujamaalive]

Its a Go Area For Women

ARE you a woman and craving a spot to unwind, enjoy a drink, and relish a scrumptious meal? Well then, there’s a specially crafted place just for you in the heart of Soweto. Brutal Fruit Spritzer has introduced a world-class SheBeen restaurant in Molapo, Soweto, launching on 9 August. This endeavor is in partnership with South African Brewery’s Sharp’s Responsible Trader Programme, ensuring…

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I've been looking for various references to the Cape "snoek horn" (fishmonger's bugle) and came across a story/blog post written phonetically in Kaaps-Afrikaans dialect with English code mixing. certainly worth looking at for anyone interested in Afrikaans and Dutch, to get a sense of what the Cape Town dialect can look like. (the full post is on Jeremy Vearey's blogspot)

but my main reason for sharing, and with my sincere apologies @geschiedenis-en-talen, is the phonetic rendering of the final words of this paragraph :

As djy vannie Tiervlei se lane is en djy kennie vir Boetie Stinkvet tie dan is djy vaak gebore en het annieslaap grootgeword. As djy innie 80's van Tiekie-stage byrie hoek van Balvenie en Connaught verby Bataan se winkel straight orrie sandveld galoeppit dan kô kry djy die begin van dertiendelaan. Nou nerra oppai hoek, daa was Boetie Stinkvet se rooisink disco, smokkie, bioscope, restirant eksekera eksekera.

I stand by what I said, that Afr. "ensovoorts" / Eng. "and so forth" are more commonly said here, but I guess this is proof that this pronunciation does in fact exist at the Cape

with standardised spelling, but maintaining the dialect and code-mixing, the above paragraph would read :

As jy van die Tiervlei se lane is, en jy ken nie vir Boetie Stinkvet nie, dan is jy vaak gebore en het aan-die-slaap grootgeword. As jy in die 80's van Tiekie Stage by die hoek van Balvenie en Connaught verby Bataan se winkel straight oor die sandveld geloop het, dan kom kry jy die begin van Dertiendelaan. Nou net daar op daai hoek, daar was Boetie Stinkvet se rooi sink disco, smokkie [smokkelhuis], bioskoop, restaurant et cetera, et cetera.

English translation :

If you're from the streets of Tiervlei, and you don't know Boetie Stinkvet, then you were born tired and grew up asleep. Back in the 80's, if you walked from Tiekie Stage on the corner of Balvenie Avenue and Connaught Road past Bataan's shop, straight across the sand field, then you'd find yourself at the start of Thirteenth Avenue. Now, right there on that corner was Boetie Stinkvet's red sheetmetal disco, shebeen [speakeasy ?], movie hall, restaurant, et cetera, et cetera.

[byneddiedingo]

Zachariah Mgabe in Come Back, Africa (Lionel Rogosin, 1959)

Cast: Zachariah Mgabe, Vinah Bendile, Miriam Makebe, Lewis Nkosi, Bloke Modisani, Can Themba, Myrtle Berman, George Malabye, Morris Hugh, Hazel Futa. Screenplay: Bloke Modisani, Lewis Nkosi, Lionel Rogosin. Cinematography: Ernest Artaria, Emil Knebel. Film editing: Carl Lerner, Hugh A. Robertson. Music: Chatur Lal. 

Filmed surreptitiously and edited with skill, Lionel Rogosin's Come Back, Africa is everything a docufiction film should be, with the chief weakness being the fiction part. It's a revelatory exploration of apartheid in South Africa, concentrated on Johannesburg, that gets its focus by following the misadventures of Zachariah Mgabe, which is also the name of the actor who plays him. Zachariah comes to Johannesburg in search of work, leaving his wife and children in what is now the KwaZulu-Natal province. He finds work in the gold mines, but when the agreed-upon term of employment is over, he wants something that pays more. He negotiates the "pass laws," a notorious system of internal passports devised by the white South African government to enforce segregation, and finds work as the "house boy" for a white couple. But the mistress of the household, played by anti-apartheid activist Myrtle Berman, constantly scolds, berates, and finally fires him, so Zachariah moves from job to job, encountering suspicion and contempt from the white employers. Things become more desperate when his wife, Vinah (Vinah Bendile), and their children join him in Johannesburg. The film vividly explores the street life of the city, and climaxes in a scene set in a shebeen where Black intellectuals discuss their situation and Miriam Makeba, already a celebrity in the country, sings two songs -- a  superb performance that helped launch her international career. But the narrative thread of the film isn't sustained as well as the documentary scenes and after an act of brutality that isn't set up properly, the film ends on a harsh but inconclusive note.   

[ortodelmondo]

Thembinkosi Hlatshwayo

A Photographer Considers the Vulnerability and Visibility of South Africa’s Shebeens

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THE SQUALOR, DECAY, SORDOR AND VULGARISATION OF MODERN MANCHESTER: Manchester in the old days, says Burgess, was home to many poor working-class and lower-middle-class people, of course, but they tended to be respectable. They looked after their little dwellings and shops — like the tobacconist's that Burgess's father ran — and tried to keep them neat. They scrubbed their doorsteps clean. They were people with self-respect. Well, look at degenerate Manchester today. Filth and decadence everywhere you look. Here we witness the decay of civilisation. The people are dissolute, the culture debased, dissipation is all-encompassing. The place is falling to pieces, structurally and in morals, and few authentic values are left. Burgess and the interviewer, a Fleming from Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroeporganisatie, stroll past what was once a Freemasons' Hall, now a West Indian shebeen-cum-shooting-gallery for heroin addicts. They pass the Palace, which had been a beautiful, lavishly appointed cinema but which today has become an unutterably vulgar fleapit reduced to screening disgustingly depraved pornographic films. It draws in brigades of the dirty-mac element from across Lancashire while the police turn a blind eye. Finally they arrive at the place where Burgess used to live, and it has become an ugly piece of waste ground, good only for fly-tippers. It pains Burgess to the heart to revisit the Manchester he grew up in. He calls the experience of returning 'the horror of coming back'. Filmed in 1987.

[wyrmfedgrave]

Pics:

1. Writings from Lovecraft's political magazine, The Conservative.¹

2. St. Armand's² now rare study of Howard & the Decadent Movement.

3. What we imagine HPL's life to have been like...

Sigh.

4. One of the many zines dedicated to every facet of Lovecraft's life & works.

5. Collection of the letters of 2 writers: one was the creator of Conan,³ the other created Cthulhu.

Two intellectual properties that should be enemies of each other...

I mean, Conan's gotten rid of a lot of mystic monsters but, Cthulhu is a creature of a different kind altogether!

Just hoping for an adversarial 'team up' here...

1915: HPL Output.

Intro: A rather crude & bigoted 'satire' where rebellious Irishmen meet some Germans, celebrate by drinking to- gether & threatened to slander the British Empire of their day.

This poem just happened to be print- ed - in Howard's Conservative - at the same time as the Easter Rebellion,⁴ when some Irish Republicans & some Germans tried to overthrow English rule in Ireland.

The Work: "(The) Ballade of Patrick Von Flynn" by Lewis Theobald, Jr.⁵

Quote:

"Germanis ipsis Germaniores."⁶

Text:

Attend you all my wondrous tale & I will tell to you, Of how an honest Irish- man⁷ into a Prussian grew.

(It) was (almost) 20 years ago I left my native bog, To seek in these majestic States⁸ a place to earn my grog.⁹

Sure, work was easily found for me, For I'm a clever man. I earned so much, I soon could buy my whiskey by the can.

With half a dozen other licks,¹⁰ a merry drinking crew, I used to hang around shebeens¹¹ & curses Old England blue!

Just why I hate the Englishman, I don't remember quite, But Jimmy Dugan's grandad says they've never used¹² Ireland right.

Sure all they ever done for us was civilize¹³ our land, (Yet) we've no use for sober laws, but all for freedom stand.

How glad will be the... day, When England last draws breath, And good Old Ireland shall be free - to drink herself to death!!

Now comes (a most) cruel war, with Germans running loose,... Here's... to them to make a stir¹⁴ (&) give (England) some more abuse!

(We) Irish... love (not the) Dutch,¹⁵ (were) siding with Germany, 'Cause she hates... England as (much) as... we!

...The Kaiser¹⁶ treat(s) us worse than England (has) ever done, But..., if we used England right - we'd lose our sweetest fun!

...Something in the Irish heart... never bows to rules; As (duty?) calls, we teach our sons sedition¹⁷ in the schools.

Last night, the Germans... all gathered in a hall, With... flags above the stage & (the) Kaiser on the wall.

I don't know what they wanted, but so far as I could see, They were (sent? by) the Kaiser & enjoined¹⁸ "neutrality."

They... denounced the President & cursed... Yankee laws, For being too (biased)... to help the German cause.

Footnotes:

1. The Conservative (1915 to 1923) was HPL's own amateur journal, which he edited & published sporadically.

However, many articles in it were actually written by others.

Inside, it included politics, poetry, social commentary, short stories & literary criticism.

Yet, Lovecraft's brand of conservatism bears little resemblance to today's treasonous scene.

Instead, Howard was calling for a revival - a return to the wellspring which 1st inspired Western culture.

HPL's magazine coincided with the 1st world war & the Russian Revolution.

For Lovecraft & his fellow writers crude nationalism & socioeconomic politics weren't the solution they sought.

Rather, they wanted an end to chaos - thru racial division, cultural imperial- ism & a strong sense of morality.

Howard was, at the time, against democracy & liberalism.

HPL's ideal state was a return to the aristocratic values of earlier times - with England as the main culture...

So, The Conservative now stands as a record of Lovecraft's worldview.

And, as a narrow glimpse into early 1900s America.

2. Professor Emeritus Barton Levi St. Armand wrote H.P. Lovecraft: New England Decadent (1979) to offer insight into the history of HPL related scholarship & Howard's roots in the decadent movement of 1800s Europe.

3. Conan, it's thought, lives in the ancient past of the Cthulhu Mythos.

Both story cycles share eldritch monsters & deadly magic - both being very dangerous to normal humans!

Things like Lizard/Snake Men, Dagon, Old Ones, etc are mentioned by both writers.

Yet, Conan kills a lot of these powerful creatures & magicians!!

In fact, Conan is such a badass, that he rudely mocks these evil beings - as he's killing them!!!

4. The Easter (Week) Rebellion/Rising (April 24 to 29, 1916) tried to establish an Irish Republic - while the U.K. was fighting in WW1.

Most of the fighting took place in Dublin, with street battles & long range sniping in different parts of the city.

The rebellion was put down by the larger forces & heavier weapons of the British army.

485 folk were killed, most being civilians & British personnel...

16 rebel leaders were executed.

5. This was 1 of Lovecraft's many pen names.

But, the name seems based upon a real person!

Lewis Theobald was an English textual editor & author known for his work on Shakespearean editing, seven classic translations, some literary satire & play writing.

He was also a plagiarist...

6. Latin "For the Germans themselves, the Germans."

I'd guess that this meant "Germans only wanted other Germans in Germany."

Of such selfish dreams, were so many monstrous crimes built...

7. Ireland ("Eire" locally), as a self- governing dominion (the "Irish Free State") was born in December of 1921.

It took until 1937, for its leaders to pass a new constitution - giving itself more political power over itself.

Then, in 1949, it legally left the British Commonwealth & became its own, true nation - the Republic of Ireland.

8. The United States, that is...

9. Grog originally referred to a daily ration of - diluted! - rum given to sailors of the British Navy in the 1700s.

It was given as a boost to Navy men to fight off the doldrums (calm, wind- less parts in the Equator) of long sea voyages.

Grog, eventually, was made up of rum, gin or whiskey with sugar, lime & water.

10. Knowning the petty meanness of Howard's satires, he must have meant the slang "someone who's been totally overcome, defeated or conquered!"

11. A shebeen, in Ireland, is an illegal (unlicensed & disreputable) working class place that sells alcoholic liquor.

12. Here, HPL means "treated." As in "the Irish were not 'treated' well..."

13. To civilize another nation is here used as in "to bring a people 'up' to a more advanced level."

This, of course, means that the Irish were viewed as a wild & unrefined barbarians!

In truth, they were followers of the older Celtic culture from Europe.

14. Stir, in this case, means "an event that causes a disturbance."

15. The Dutch are people from The Netherlands.

Holland isn't their nation's name! Just two Dutch provinces go by the place names of North & South Holland...

I think I know why Lovecraft hates the Dutch.

These folk, in Howard's time, were thought to have risen from a mixture of Frisian, Saxon & French peoples.

And, we know how HPL believed in 'racial purity'...

The mixing of 'races' is still seen as an abhorrent 'crime' in racist circles.

In fact, the Dutch are now thought to come from a mixture of native folk & German populations!

But, it's now known that rare Paleo- humans were first found living in Spain - around 3 million years ago...

16. Kaiser ("Emperor") was the title of German rulers from 1871 to 1918 - 3 men in all.

17. Sedition is "speaking or organizing things towards a rebellion against an established government."

This includes "subversion of a nation's constitution" & "inciting discontented people to establish an insurrection."

Gosh.

And they say you can learn nothing from history...

18. To enjoin is to "teach" or "urge someone to do something."

In this case, they want the Irish to declare themselves neutral & not help the British militarily.

Strangely enough, as a legal term, it can mean the opposite, "to prohibit" or "ban something" thru a legal order.

Next: Part 2.

[anotherbookpile]

Random Tag Game

For all the time I've been on tumblr, I've still never played one of these! Thanks for the tag, @tmsbooks !

1. Last Song

Teir Abhaile Riu, as sung by Shebeen

2. Last Show

Not seen a show in so long, hard to say?

3. Currently Watching

I've not watched anything with focus in a fair while - finished season 3 of The Wire a while back, and I suppose I can say 'currently watching' Owl House while we wait for the finale. I'll find some more things to watch when I graduate I expect but I'm in the last stretch of uni so little time to spare.

4. Currently reading

Just finished rereading The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss - absolutely adore the Kingkiller Chronicles, well worth a look if you haven't had the chance. Also ongoing is Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde - I've been picking through it a bit slower, since it's discrete essays rather than a single piece of continuous prose.

Looking forward to Pride and Prejudice and the Earthsea series, both waiting on the shelf to be started soon!

5. Current Obsession

I suppose you could say my dissertation? I don't have the time or focus for any other obsessions right now. My attempts to get back in shape have been faltering, but my focus on my reading and classwork are about as good as they've ever been so I just want to cling onto this until I graduate. Then I'll set my mind free to wander a bit again I think.

Tags: @svnshinebooks @abbeyx @northernreads @cuppatea-nbooks

I tagged random followers, sorry if you've already done this/aren't up for tag games!

[maskaniafrobeatz]

FREDDIE GWALA

A big name in shebeens across Africa. Yes, alot of the numbas that you know and love from way back were sung from the very lungs of Mr Gwala.

Gwala'ka'forch'.

Oh. As far as I remember it's Ayoh-yoh for the boys. And correctly so, Aye-ye for the girls....

Enough said. Back to the shebeen dancefloor....

[andrevanvuuren]

hoor die wind verwoed verward grom en blaf stof op n modderige verwaaide verbrokkelde stukkende teer pad ek voel n profisie n visie met rook en tyres sirenes skote n gil n skree blou lig korrupte polisie miskien n geroesde ambulans alles in demokrasie is n verwaterde Oros illusie in n wasmasjien gestrengel met n gerasperde demokrasie hoor stemme laat in die nag bekommerde donker woorde geen water net kerse fokol krag kinders is honger moeders geïrriteerd moeg pa’s hang angstig aan n Black Label met n vodka sachet bygevoeg môre is nog n dorre uitgedroogde vloed werkdag nog n donderstorm nog n oorstroming nog n politikus wat steel en met die stembus toor alles word tussen n paar skuwe hienas verdeel voel my magtige dreuning hoor die frustrasie van n eens reënboog nasie gevul met potholes n President wat vreet met ministers en familie met skelm oë gereed vir die volgende Eskom Elektriese vultrasie Waars die dokter en sy digital kolaberasie vibes ons is siek ons is arm hierdie is nie Mandela of God se nasie daar is geen vryheid leiers of wetenskap ons boere word wreed opgekap Gwede is n boef op die hoogste vlak kom ons dans terwyl ons son soos n ballon 🎈 sak hoor die wind verwoed verward grom en blaf stof op n modderige verwaaide verbrokkelde stukkende teer pad ek voel n profisie n visie met rook en tyres sirenes skote n gil n skree blou lig korrupte polisie miskien n geroesde ambulans alles in demokrasie is n verwaterde Oros illusie in n wasmasjien gestrengel met n gerasperde demokrasie wat verdrink in n illusie gevul met krokodille en shebeens wat kuier gedompel in methanol en goeie mense wat weghol na n ander land verwoed verward slaan my met my eie lat vir wat vir wat (28/2/23 verwoed verward-AvV)

[octopus-still-turning-out]

Ofc Jason is aware of all the shebeens (i took so long googling the spelling istg) in Gotham yet refuses to do anything but take advantage of it.

Peak.

some really funny things about this panel i haven’t stopped thinking about:

jason wanting to get drinks with everyone

jason specifically offering drinks to tim, the teenager

tim, the teenaged vigilante, turning down jason’s offer of drinks because he’s underage

i know tim’s age is wack, but if we choose to stick with one semi-consistent timeline, then jason is only three years than tim. ie also underage

i have to assume jason knows which gotham bars don’t card because fake ids will only get him so far

dick is also here but he isn’t doing anything about his siblings underage drinking because he’s too busy brooding over the gotham skyline. as one does

they’re all fucking ridiculous

[afactaday]

#aFactADay2024

#1267: "shebang" means a tavern, and was popularised by US Civil War soldiers, and so (like "skedaddle" and "shoddy") its etymology is unclear. it could come from "shebeen" (a room, cabin, shop, tent, anything really) or "cabane" (French for hut). "the whole shebang" is seemingly unrelated but we can't be sure. it could come from "char-à-banc" (which is kinda like a bus) so the whole shebang was everyone on the wagon. (see fotd#1184 for more uses.) "the Whole Shabang" is not to be confused, of course: it's a brand of crisps made by Keefe (who specialise in prison food). they used to be found only in jail but ex-inmates spread enough of a positive word for it to garner a cult following in the general public.

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