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Abafazi bemka (The women are leaving-they have already gone)

- Group of young Mpondo married women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of young Mpondo married women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Tabankulu f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136669 , vital:37403 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR033-02
  • Description: This charming song was evidently a great favourite and every one began to sway to the lilt of it. The men then demanded why they couldn't sing too--why just the women. This song is more compicated than at first appears and in some ways is reminiscent of a Hebridean song. Part song.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Abafazi pandle (Women should go outside the hut)

- Group of Gcaleka men and women, Hugh Tracey

Abatandani ngumasingili

- Nontwintwi and Annie Macholweni (Performers), Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey

Amaseyibokwe athengwa ngemali eninzi (For a certain type of socks you pay dearly)

- Gcaleka boys and girls, Hugh Tracey

Api amatole makw edini (Hullo, you boys, where are the calves?)

- John Lila, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: John Lila , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Tabankulu f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136638 , vital:37400 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR032-14
  • Description: The verse is about some herdboys and what they did. Old verse.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Asiyoyetha, lengoma yeye Badala (This song is not ours, it is Badala's)

- Young girls and boys of Durban location, Hugh Tracey

Aunakuva unafoko upendukile (Can't you understand your mother has changed her mind)

- Group of young Mpondo married women, Hugh Tracey

Badazi Bomthandazo (Christian women)

- Young boys, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Young boys , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Africa South Africa Peddie f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/150668 , vital:38995 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR060-13
  • Description: This Mbayizelo or Impezu dance is not performed for any special occasion but just for fun. One young boy plays the repeated melody or the mouth organ, while the others do a kind of prancing dance while making a rhythmic roaring noise in their throats. Mbayizelo dance song, with mouth organ (harmonica).
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Bam! Mfana kabanina undenzenzima (Bam! Whose son has made me pregnant)

- Group of Gcaleka women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of Gcaleka women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Folk music , Africa South Africa Willowvale f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151237 , vital:39042 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR063-11
  • Description: This song, sung without a trace of shyness, rather indicated a social state of affairs which was an accepted fact. It was not possible to obtain the true history behind the words and quite likely they contain an allusion of some local romance rather than to a local tragedy. Women's dance, with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Bathi abafana ndisandindazana ((Young men call me a beauty)

- Gcaleka women and girls, Hugh Tracey

Bayathetha abantwana ndinendaba (Children are speaking because I have news)

- Gcaleka boys and girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Gcaleka boys and girls , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Folk music , Africa South Africa Idutywa f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151224 , vital:39041 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR063-10
  • Description: The girl playing this mouth bow whistles out of the side of her mouth as well as resonating the notes in the usual manner. She used the open string and a stopped note, stopping it with her thumbnail and first finger. The use of this indigenious instrument and its style of music explains the ease with which Gcaleka people take to the small concertina. The harmonies produced in the mouth being on the true harmonic series makes the transition to the concertina a simple matter for simple tunes. Notes of the bow, 292 and 260. Mtshotsho dance for boys and girls with Ikinki mouth resonated musical bow.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Bayeza kusasa (They are coming tomorrow)

- Group of Mpondo and Sotho men led by Siganeko Nonkonyana, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of Mpondo and Sotho men led by Siganeko Nonkonyana , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Lusikisiki f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136487 , vital:37383 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR031-06
  • Description: "The sick people are coming tomorrow-They are bringing money." The day's recording at the Great Place of the Paramount Chief of the Mpondo ended with 3 songs by this group of Mpondo and Sotho men. Diviner's (Herbalist's) song with clapping and drums.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Bayile

- Villagers from Dabi's location near Peddie, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Villagers from Dabi's location near Peddie , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Africa South Africa Peddie f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/149190 , vital:38813 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR059-05
  • Description: The words of this song make no sense. The people of this district are actually Fingo or Mfengu but speak Ngqika. Their ancestors were refugees from Shaka and came here from Swaziland over 120 years ago. The song is sung before initiation, when the young man is old enough to undergo his ordeal. Circumcision song with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Buzaufazi zipina inkomo (Ask the woman where the cattle are)

- Group of Mpondo men and 3 girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of Mpondo men and 3 girls , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Lusikisiki f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136784 , vital:37421 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR033-14
  • Description: The singers all lay flat on their stomachs, singing into their cupped hands, which were slightly vibrated. The leader was singing in a forced voice, which appears to be a local fashion in this kind of the song. Dance song for evening dance for young women.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Deborah mntaka mama ngendi tshata nawe (Deborah, my dear, I would marry you had I the cattle)

- Young girls and boys of Durban location, Hugh Tracey

Didiyela Monkalanga Semlangeni

- Women of Kalana location, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Women of Kalana location , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Africa South Africa King Williams Town f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/149994 , vital:38928 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR059-15
  • Description: A diviner arrived in person but declined to sing with the women who were all sitting around on the floor of the hut, about 80 of them. The married women were more soberly dressed than the young unmarried ones and wore their headclothes in the more usual Xhosa 'pile' of cloth on the head, producing a large loose turban-like effect. Diviner's song, with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Dlalani (Name of a man)

- 5 young Xhosa men and women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: 5 young Xhosa men and women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Africa South Africa Kentani f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/150741 , vital:39001 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR061-01
  • Description: The song is in praise of a man who has many lovers. This song and the following one were sung by a group of very beautifully dressed young people, the men dancers elegantly blanketed and beaded, the girls wearing pale ochre skirts with many rows of indigo blue braid and their headcloths of indingo blie wool were folded about their heads to form a tall tubular headdress rather like that of Queen Nefertiti. Before the recording started, but whilst the singers were "warming up" there was rather a curious little ceremony which forms part of the dance. One of the girls went around removing the men dancers's headcloths revealing their head bead ornaments. She put their headcloths on her own head, then returned to the line of girls and gave each girl her own young mans' headcloth, which was then tied round the girl's head. A stick specially decorated for dancing is called "Libunguza." Intolombe dance for young people with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Emonti Mama Siyazalana (East London mother, we are related)

- Young girls and boys of Durban location, Hugh Tracey

Ezimaqiya (A woman's headdress)

- Group of old Hlubi men, Hugh Tracey

Fasonti (Name of a man)

- 5 young Xhosa men and women, Hugh Tracey

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