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Jomjom ndaliwa yindoda ngenxa yako (Jomjom, I have been divorced by my husband on your account)

- Nozikencele and Gcaleka girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Nozikencele and Gcaleka 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/10962/150960 , vital:39022 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR062-05
  • Description: Jomjom is a familiar name for the local drink, millet beer. It is on account of her love of beer that she lost her husband, so the song goes, in time honoured fashion the world over. The song is an excellent round with each girl singing her own variations. Drinking song with Ikinki mouth resonated musical bow.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Kunukizembe pheshakwenciba (The smell of a battle axe across the Kei)

- Group of young Xhosa men and boys, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of young Xhosa men and boys , 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/10962/150687 , vital:38997 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR060-15
  • Description: We were told that this group of Xhosa lads were from Christian homes. The tune is connected to the same dance for young boys and girls between the ages of about 12-17 years. It is a dance song the group of young people use on their way to the home where the party is to take place. The dance itself takes place in a hut. Mbayizelo dance song, with harmonica.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Kwanukimpi (The smell of war)

- Group of elderly Mpondo men, Hugh Tracey

Le Mantyi ikhona igweba kanzima (The Magistrate punishes severely)

- Young men and boys, Hugh Tracey

Malayisha 1 (Hold the sun, so that it sets)

- Young Gcaleka men and girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Young Gcaleka men 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/10962/151107 , vital:39030 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR063-05
  • Description: Dancing song such as this one is the present fashion among Gcaleka young people. They are simple and easy to follow and each singer can add his own variations. The dancers add the gutteral roaring sound, which may reflect their distant relationship with the Arabs of the East African coast many generations ago. Mtshotsho song, with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Malayisha 1 (Hold the sun, so that it sets)

- Young Gcaleka men and girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Young Gcaleka men 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/10962/151098 , vital:39029 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR063-04
  • Description: Dancing song such as this one is the present fashion among Gcaleka young people. They are simple and easy to follow and each singer can add his own variations. The dancers add the gutteral roaring sound, which may reflect their distant relationship with the Arabs of the East African coast many generations ago. Mtshotsho song, with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Malayisha 2 (Hold the sun, so that it sets)

- Young Gcaleka men and girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Young Gcaleka men 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/10962/151112 , vital:39031 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR063-05
  • Description: Dancing song such as this one is the present fashion among Gcaleka young people. They are simple and easy to follow and each singer can add his own variations. The dancers add the gutteral roaring sound, which may reflect their distant relationship with the Arabs of the East African coast many generations ago. Mtshotsho song, with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Mama ndaswelindawo ngendaba (Mother, I am short of accommodation on account of 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/10962/151219 , vital:39040 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR063-09
  • 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

Mamilambo

- 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/10962/150003 , vital:38929 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR059-16
  • 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. "Mamilambo" is said to be a spirit or charm in the shape of a snake, which the people buy from the diviners in order to obtain good luck and get rich-so it was explained. 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

Mangunden Thontweni (A name)

- Group of young Xhosa men and boys, Hugh Tracey

Masalela

- Group of young Xhosa men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of young Xhosa men , 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/10962/150394 , vital:38971 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR060-01
  • Description: This group of "Amakwenkwe" (young unitiated men) all wrapped in red blankets, carrying sticks and wearing bead leggings, sang very well with gravity and intersity. They were all under 18 years of age. In the interval between the songs, they went off to fetch their sticks and struck them together during the song to mark the rhythm. Three group fighting song, with sticks and whistles.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Matshoba

- Women and children of Dabi's location, Hugh Tracey

Mdlankomo (Name)

- 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 Idutywa f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/150921 , vital:39017 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR062-01
  • Description: This particular group was very simple. The reaction to hearing the loudspeaker was immediately to join in, and it appeared to take them some little time to realize that they were in fact hearing themselves, and not just listening to some other Gcaleka singing. Circumcision song for the Abakweta dance with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Mfana wayigqaba i metarmapkos (The boys put coloured earth on their faces)

- Young men and boys, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Young men and 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/10962/150643 , vital:38992 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR060-10
  • Description: The roaring or grunting in this dance song is a sound peculiar to the Xhosa. The Luo and Giriyama of Kenya also do it and some of the East Coast Swahili, notably in their religious songs. It is possibly a vestigial remain of Arab influence acquired during the tribe's sojourn in East Africa some 500 years ago. Mbayizelo dance song, with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Mfazi potula indoda ilambile (Women, grind the mealies, your husband is hungry)

- Group of young Xhosa men and boys, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of young Xhosa men and boys , 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/10962/150709 , vital:38999 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR060-17
  • Description: Simple songs such as this form the foundation for equally simple dance steps. The dance is performed in file in a circle without much order or form and progression is achieved by taking forward and backward steps, the forward steps being slightly longer than the backward ones. Mbayizelo dance song, with harmonica.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Mhlahlo

- Xhosa men and women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: 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/10962/150721 , vital:39000 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR060-18
  • Description: This song was recorded by moonlight by a very gay and picturesquely dressed group of Xhosa people, young and old men and women. The garments were of pale ochre and yellow and many men and women were smoking pipes of great length, both bowl and stem. Clothes, tobacco pauches and necklaces all beautifully beaded. During the course of this song the owner of the nearest house shouted out: "Should not the owner of this place be paid?" When his voice came out loud and clear in the playback, all the people burst out laughing and he vanished amongst the crowd covered with embrrassment. Song for Mhlahlo dance, with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Mjinana

- Women of Kalana Location, Hugh Tracey

Mjinana

- Women of Kalana Location, Hugh Tracey

Myeyezelo

- Group of Xhosa men and women, Hugh Tracey

Ndakutsala ngomlenze (I will pull you by the leg)

- Group of Xhosa me and boys, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of Xhosa me and boys , 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/10962/150679 , vital:38996 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR060-14
  • Description: This was a version of the dance often seen on the mines in Johannesburg where it is known as "Amakwenkwe." It is remarkable for two things. The strange guttural roaring made by flexing and unflexing the knee of the leg on which they happen to be standing. Bands of small bells worn across the chest make this peculiar feat audible as well as visible. The legs of the dancers are also shaken or made to quiver, as they walk round and on the mines the dancers wear rattles on their legs as well. Mbayizelo dance, with clapping and bells.
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  • Date Issued: 1957
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