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Gumboots
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Gumboots dance developed from traditional African roots, to
become a part of urban South African working-class culture. The
practice began with rural laborers who came to work at the gold
mines of Witwatersrand in South Africa. They brought with them
strong traditions of rhythm, song, and dance. Facing oppression
and hardship at the mines, including punishment if they talked to
each other while working, they were forced to adapt and
create new forms of communication and entertainment. The fact
that many ethnic groups and languages existed side by side also
contributed to developing their associations through the shared language of rhythm and music.
The mine executives tried to divide workers from each other even when they were not working, for
fear of solidarity and uprising. Their overcrowded living quarters were segregated along ethnic or tribal
lines. At the same time, they were forbidden to carry on their traditions, or wear traditional dress, in an
attempt to virtually erase their ethnic identity. Faced with this repressive regime, workers adapted
traditional dances and rhythms to the only instruments available - their boots and bodies.
Inside the mines, the workers used the gumboots to communicate with each other, by slapping their
boots, stamping their feet, and rattling their ankle chains. As the form also devel-
oped into a popular social activity, songs dealing with working-class life, drink-
ing, love, family, low wages and mean bosses were sung to accompany the move-
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Gumboots dance is now a popular art form performed worldwide to entertain and pass on elements of
South African history to new generations and other cultures. Like many folkloric art forms, it is adapted
to the modern contexts in which it is performed.
Gumboots
