Nhlaka Production,July 24, 2020
Some members of this choir are hitting hand held small "cushion" drums.
At 3:12 in this video the men forcefully push hands down to ground and raise hands near their face with wiggling fingers with the left hand a little higher up than the right hand.
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Edited by Azizi Powell
This pancocojams post showcases five videos of The Twelve Apostles Church In Trinity (TTACT also given as TACT), a South African based Apostolic denomination.
This post also includes some very brief statements about this denomination. I've also included my Editorial notes about my reasons for publishing this post.
The content of this post is presented for cultural and religious purposes.
All copyrights remain with their owners.
Thanks to all those who are featured in these videos. Thanks to all those who are quoted in this post and thanks to the publishers of these videos on YouTube.
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Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2022/11/black-faced-minstrelsy-in-south-africas.html
for a related pancocojams post entitled "Black Faced Minstrelsy In South Africa's Influence On The Custom Of Isicathamiya Groups Wearing White Gloves And Sometimes Making The "Jazz Hands" Gesture."
Also, click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2022/11/videos-of-south-african-apostolic.html "Five Videos Of South African Apostolic Choirs: The Twelve Apostles Church In Christ (TTACC)"
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PANCOCOJAMS EDITOR'S NOTE
In addition to these videos' music, I'm particularly interested in documenting the custom of choir members wearing white gloves or wearing another colored gloves. I posit that this custom of wearing gloves as part of the choir's attire has its source in South Africa's Isicathamiya choral groups and the Isicathamiya choral groups got the custom of wearing white gloves from the United States black faced minstrel groups (and from other minstrel groups (including a Black group known as the Virginia Jubilee Singers) who toured South Africa in the 19th and early 20th century.
I'm also interested in documenting the choirs' dancing/marching movements as well as their extensive use of hand gestures while they sing. These characteristics also remind me of Isicathamiya choral groups. Although I'm certainly no expert on Isicathamiya music or on Zulu culture, it appears to me that the dance movements and hand gestures that both of these vocal music groups performed in the past and still perform now come from traditional Zulu culture (Think of Ladysmith Black Mambazo as an example of an Isicathamiya music group although that group is much smaller than Isicathamiya groups and didn't/ doesn't wear the suits and gloves that Isicathamiya groups wore and still wear).
I'm curious about the hand gestures that singers in both these types of South African music use. Unfortunately, I haven't found any information online about what any of these hand gestures mean. Is performing imitative gestures while singing traditional in Zulu and/or other South African ethnic groups?
Are the gestures that resemble "jazz hands" / "spirit fingers" from traditional Zulu culture or from United States minstrel groups that toured South Africa (and elsewhere) in the late 19th century and the early 20th century?*
Hopefully, people who are knowledgeable about these subjects will share some information here or elsewhere online. Doing so would be greatly appreciated.
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I haven't found any information in English about The Twelve Apostles Church in Trinity (TTACT) besides its Facebook page with this information:
https://www.facebook.com/The12ACT/
"The Twelve Apostles Church in Trinity
Apostolic Church
321 Avoca Road, Effingham Heights, Durban, South Africa."
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I don't know anything about the history of The Twelve Apostles Church in Trinity (TTACT) denomination or the differences, if any, between that denomination and The Twelve Apostles Church In Christ (TTACC). However, their name similarities suggests that there was or is some connection between these denominations.
Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2022/11/videos-of-south-african-apostolic.html for the pancocojams post entitled "Videos Of South African Apostolic Choirs: The Twelve Apostles Church In Christ (TTACC)."
As is the case with that post, after the videos that are showcased in this post, I've included notes about the singers' attire and whether they wore white gloves or another color gloves.
The attire that TTACT members wear in these showcased videos is somewhat similar to the attire that TTACC members wear. In both groups the males wear identical attire and the females wear identical attire, except for the each group's leader.
The TTACT men and boys wear royal blue jackets (or light blue suit jackets), white shirts, blue ties, white pants, and white gloves .The group leader for the male group doesn't wear any gloves.
In some of these showcased TTACT videos, the women wear a white blouse (sometimes with a red insignia) and royal blue skirts to the knees or shortly below the knees. Sometimes for the women who also wear a white bonnet or a white tied scarf. In some videos the women don't wear gloves. However, in one of the videos, the women wear identical white dresses that are slightly below the knees. A sky blue corsage is pinned on the top right hand side of the dress. The women wear a white bonnet, sky blue long gloves, and white dress shoes.
DISCLAIMER: These descriptions of the attire for TTACT members only refers to the videos that are showcased in this post. Members of this denomination may wear other attire on other occasions.
I have included a few notes in this post about some of the hand gestures and dance movements the singers did in those showcased videos.
Additions and corrections are welcome for all of these editorial notes.
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SHOWCASE VIDEO #2: - TTACTSO UNIZULU lapho kuGcwele by Clement
nqobile DeNqobee, May 11,
2022
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SHOWCASE VIDEO #3: TTACT 2022 Evangelical brothers. Mthatha | Apostle and Youth day
Ncedo Mbini, Jun 27, 2022
Evangelical Junior brothers. Umzimvubu region 🌈
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Disclaimer: All my videos are recorded by me, there is no
third party involved. My videos don't mean to harm ivangeli lika baba, my
motive is to show the world the beauty of TTACT and to share our songs to
anyone who would like to listen to them.
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Around 8:32 in this video, the singers are doing a hand motion that is similar to what people in the United States and in some other nations call "jazz hands" or "spirit fingers.".
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SHOWCASE VIDEO #4: : TTACT GAUTENG THANKS GIVING 2022 HIGHLIGHTS
Trinity Live, Sept. 3, 2022
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SHOWCASE VIDEO #5: TTACT -Welcome in Pietermaritzburg under O/S Sibisi
sphesihle Goodman, Sep 29, 2022
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