Benoni
- Authors: Olive Alexander , Russel Planga , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Grahamstown f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135992 , vital:37324 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR027-11
- Description: The soloist was Olive Alexander, the girl says:- "My mother doesn't like me, my father only cares for the cattle he will get for my lobola, my brother never brings me any clothes. So I will go to Benoni and stay with the Sotho and Zulu, I'll make friends there and life will be much gayer." Topical song with dance band.
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- Date Issued: 1957
No doli wami (The doll)
- Authors: Olive Alexander , Russel Planga , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Grahamstown f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136006 , vital:37326 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR027-12
- Description: Same soloist. A certain man made love to a girl, in secret, after which she jilted him. So he told her that he would now have to tell the people that is was she who had agreed and accepted his love-making. Topical song with dance band.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957