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| − | In Welsh culture, an [[eisteddfod]] (Welsh: ə(i)ˈstɛðvɔd , plural ə(i)stɛðˈvɔdaɨ) is a referring to a Welsh festival of literature, music and performance. The tradition dates from about the 12th century, but it disappeared with the | + | In Welsh culture, an [[eisteddfod]] (Welsh: ə(i)ˈstɛðvɔd , plural ə(i)stɛðˈvɔdaɨ) is a referring to a Welsh festival of literature, music and performance. The tradition dates from about the 12th century, but it disappeared with the loss of the bardic tradition in Wales and elsewhere. In the 18th-century there was however a revival through the emergence of a number of informal eisteddfodau, and the tradition spread through the British Empire over the next two centuries. |
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An Eisteddfod (plural Eisteddfodau) refers to the general movement.
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Nature of an Eisteddfod
Origins
In Welsh culture, an eisteddfod (Welsh: ə(i)ˈstɛðvɔd , plural ə(i)stɛðˈvɔdaɨ) is a referring to a Welsh festival of literature, music and performance. The tradition dates from about the 12th century, but it disappeared with the loss of the bardic tradition in Wales and elsewhere. In the 18th-century there was however a revival through the emergence of a number of informal eisteddfodau, and the tradition spread through the British Empire over the next two centuries.
Establishment in South Africa
According to the Wikipedia entry[1] on the term Eisteddfod, there have been a number of international performing arts competitions in South Africa are called eisteddfods over the years. (e.g. the Tygerberg International Eisteddfod), but the word "eisteddfod" gradually came to be used largely to refer to ordinary cultural festivals, especially within educational contexts, the competitions focused on including presentations of music, poetry, drama and elocution by school children, even if only one school's students participate.
The precise date of the first South African eistedfodd is uncertain, though Wikipedia mentions that a Pretoria Eisteddfod was first held in 1923.
Other examples include the Bloemfontein Eistedfodd, Free State Eistedfodd, the Tygerberg International Eisteddfod
Afrikaans Eisteddfodau
There were also an Afrikaans language Eisteddfod, ** (For example, in 1936 the Kaapstadse Afrikaanse Toneelvereniging won first and second prize with excerpts from Gebroke Drade (Van Bruggen) and Die Kwaksalwer (Leipold)
English Eisteddfodau
Eastern Cape Eisteddfod
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisteddfod#South_Africa
Kruger 199*, P.28;
Binge, 1969, p197 *
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