290:(1927). In these two works, 78 Afrikaans-Dutch songs were collected, of which only 28 have been incorporated in the 1937 FAK songbook of 314 songs. Of the 314 songs in the songbook 275 songs were specifically written for singing along. The massive leap from 78 songs in 1927 to 314 in 1937 indicates the tremendous development of Afrikaans music in the short space of a mere decade. The first copy of the first FAK-Volksangbundel was handed over to then chairman, dr. NJ van der Merwe on 7 June 1937 on the occasion of the FAKs annual general meeting in Bloemfontein. By the time the revised edition appeared in 1961, 60,000 copies had been sold.
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songbook is that songs appearing in previous editions would not be included in the new. In this sense the new songbook is regarded as a second volume in the
Afrikaans repertoire. The new FAK-Sangbundel was distributed to many schools across South Africa and Namibia. The songbook was further introduced to music festivals at
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met to reflect upon the protection of their cultural heritage. The goal was to bring people and organisations with similar inner convictions together, and to launch actions for the enforcement of the
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Afrikaner people. After the Afrikaner's lost the Boer War, their culture and heritage came under severe threat. They were being labelled as stubborn, incompetent and insignificant, some reports even
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began to organise culturally in a variety of institutions. Despite severe political divisions among
Afrikaners from the earliest times, a need was expressed for a form of cultural unity. Although the ideal of political unity remained out of reach for the time being, Afrikaners were able to achieve
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At first, the main imperative of the FAK was the maintenance of the
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In 2009 the idea arose that in view of the songbook's 75th anniversary in 2012, a new edition should be developed that acknowledges the development of
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Nienaber was the first editor of the "Handhaaf en bou"-series (Maintain and build), which published shoemaker terms, cooking terms and photographic terms. Later
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Volksdiens: Die geskiedenis van die Federasie van Afrikaanse Kultuurvereniginge, 1929–1979. Pretoria: FAK. p.32-34.
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