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The Silver Fez
''The Silver Fez'' is a 2009 South African documentary feature film directed by Lloyd Ross. Synopsis The story tells of Kaatji Davids, a house painter who lives in Cape Town. He is very poor, with only an old banjo as a musical instrument, but he and a few close friends dream of beating the wealthy Hadji Bucks, undisputed champion of Cape Malay music. The prize is the Silver Fez, the "Holy Grail" of Cape Town's Islamic subculture. The contest involves thousands of musicians and a wide variety of tunes. Text has been copied from this source, which is available under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license (See talk page) The Silver Fez (the name deriving from the Fez (hat), fez, a type of felt hat worn by Malay men in the Cape) is a competition of all-male choirs from the Malay community. Background and themes The film explores Identity (social science), identity and marginalisation among the Cape Coloureds (of which the Cape Malays are a sub-group): th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lloyd Ross
Lloyd, Lloyd's, or Lloyds may refer to: People * Lloyd (name), a variation of the Welsh word ' or ', which means "grey" or "brown" ** List of people with given name Lloyd ** List of people with surname Lloyd * Lloyd (singer) (born 1986), American singer Places United States * Lloyd, Florida * Lloyd, Kentucky * Lloyd, Montana * Lloyd, New York * Lloyd, Ohio * Lloyds, Alabama * Lloyds, Maryland * Lloyds, Virginia Elsewhere * Lloydminster, or "Lloyd", straddling the provincial border between Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada Companies and businesses Derived from Lloyd's Coffee House *Lloyd's Coffee House, a London meeting place for merchants and shipowners between about 1688 and 1774 * Lloyd's of London, a British insurance market ** Lloyd's of London (film), ''Lloyd's of London'' (film), a 1936 film about the insurance market ** Lloyd's building, its headquarters ** Lloyd's Agency Network * ''Lloyd's List'', a website and 275-year-old daily newspaper on shipping and global trad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
