Pata Pata - Pata Pata by Miriam Makeba P1000274

This is a video of “Pata Pata“ done to the tune, “Pata Pata“ by Miriam Makeba. There is also a lot of music in South Africa. Some songs are about love. Others are about feeling sad or lonely. And some songs, like “Pata Pata,“ are just about dancing, singing and having a great time. “Pata Pata“ means “touch, touch“ and it is an dance that was popular when Miriam Makeba was a girl. Miriam popularized this song and dance during her world tours in the 1960s and 1970s as she fought against the apartheid policies of South Africa. This song is in English and in Xhosa, one of the many Bantu languages in South Africa. It is a click language, which means people make a clicking noise with their tongue when they speak it. If you listen closely you can hear the click in the words of the song. This is from a series of videos from the 2012 Chicago SummerDance Festival evening of Thursday, August 10, 2012, where Paul Collins (Ethnic Dance Chicago) facilitated h