Concert

The term concert has a few meanings in South Africa. Among them (1) The musical use, to refer to *** (2)then there is the expanded theatrical use *** (3) In its Afrikaans form ("konsert") it is formally used to refer to a musical concert (as in English), but is more widely used in an informal and extended sense, to refer to any type of performance held in a town - perhaps as an equivalent of a variety show. In this sense it may even refer to a performance of a play, although mostly of an amateur nature. The latter use of the term may be done seriously, or often applied cynically or satirically to typify a bad production ("the production was nothing more than a concert"). This Afrikaans use of the term has become part of South African English as well.

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