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Ukugwiya

- Group of old Hlubi men, Hugh Tracey

Ukulalubokile (The weeds in the lands have got them beat)

- Citaumvano, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Citaumvano , 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/10962/136605 , vital:37396 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR032-09
  • Description: "Sila" is literary :to grind", i.e. the woman who grinds the grain for the beer. Topical song with guitar.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Umama litshipa (Mother is an absconder)

- Gcaleka boys and girls, Hugh Tracey

Umbala (Colour)

- 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/10962/150412 , vital:38973 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR060-03
  • 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

Umdudo (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/10962/150940 , vital:39019 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR062-02
  • Description: This song was sung on a bright sunny afternoon by 20 Gcaleka women all dressed in their ochre coloured blankets or shawls, sitting on the ground near the cattle kraal. The great open downs of the Transkei rolling away on every side to the mountains in the West and blue Indian ocean to the east. Circumcision song for the Abakweta dance with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Umfazi uyabalega (His wife has run away)

- Group of young Mpondo girls and boys, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of young Mpondo girls and boys , 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/10962/136587 , vital:37394 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR032-07
  • Description: Clapping accampanied by a rapping on the drums greeted Chief Botha whenever he appeared. Each dance song began with the boys kneeling, singing each into his cupped hand, bobbing and swaying to the rhythm whilst the girls stood nearby, exactly like in the previous item. At a given signal the boys rose and went on dancing standing up. The word "Gubura" is pronounced "GHUBUKHA" (Kh as in loch). The peculiar leopard like snarl, or cough or grunt which the Xhosa make in their throats is noticeable throughout these songs. They are very fond of making it out of context, just as an exclamation. Gubura dance for young people.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Umgaq' uphum' entabeni

- Group of Baca Men (Performers), Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey

Umgquzo (Where is my blanket? It is in the forest)

- Group of Mpondo women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of Mpondo 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/10962/136370 , vital:37369 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR030-03
  • Description: This dance was performed by the married women standing in a circle. In the second part of the song they say: "The person who grinds the corn for the beer has a lot to say."- Some of the women had painted their faces with pale yellow ochre.- They wore pale blue blankets, were lavishly decorated with beads, mostly in sky blue and white, wore calf length beaded skirts, and a great many brass wire bracelets. In some cases, the typical headring was made of a leather strap (a dog's collar) studded with brass studs, edged and fringed with sky blue and white beads. Umgouzo girl's initiation dance.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Umtsha wam' uyayizulisa ingqondoyam (My lover sends me out of my mind)

- Group of young Mpondo married woman, Hugh Tracey

Undebulisele ku Lungwengwe (Give my best wishes to Lungwengwe, also to your mother)

- Group of young Mpondo married women, Hugh Tracey

Ungewu

- Group of Baca Men (Performers), Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey

Utakata ngsandhla sako (Yo have laid me under a spell with your hands)

- Group of young Mpondo men and women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of young Mpondo men and women , 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/10962/136723 , vital:37410 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR033-08
  • Description: The leader says: "You have laid me under a spell with your hands." To which the girls answer: "You, enhanting with your hands." Party song for young people with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Uxam (The Iguana)

- Young men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Young men , 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/10962/150448 , vital:38977 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR060-07
  • Description: The singers were a very cheerful group of young Xhosas in ordinary shirts and trousers with occasionally a touch of gaiety in the form of a beaded cap, a gay knitted wollen girdle in stripes of pink and dark blue, with many large wollen tassels depending from it and rosettes of pearl buttons attached here and there. One boy had a shirt with Xhosa words printed on it. They all wore many gay plastic bangles on their wrists. A spectator standing by, dressed in a rather shabby old shirt and trousers had turned up his trousers at the bottoms to display a solid mass of dozens of strands of beads wound about his ankles-yellow, scarlet, blue (dark) and turquoise and apple green. A group fighting song, with sticks struck together.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Uyabaleka wemungoma hmu (The diviner runs away)

- Group of young Hlangwini men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of young Hlangwini men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-sa
  • Language: Southern Sotho
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151484 , vital:39134 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR064-06
  • Description: This group of young men had evidently been to the gold mines for they were all wearing the full mine trousers decorated with blue patches. One of them "Shortie" was the cause of much gaiety to the women spectators, who called out (in Baca) "try standing a bit higher, Sho'tie". His trousers were so long and billowing that even when they were hitched up round the knee, they fell in full and graceful folds like a skirt. Ndhlamu dance song with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Wanyongoba (The worry)

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

Wayisebenzela Ijoyini (He worked for the 'contract')

- Nozi Kencele (14 years) and Gcaleka girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Nozi Kencele (14 years) 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/10962/151076 , vital:39027 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR063-02
  • Description: The girl playing the mouth bow was left-handed. Her friends standing beside her sang the refrain and also did the roaring sounds in the throat which are so typical of the Xhosa people. The word Ijoyini, from the English word 'join', refers to the contract to work on the gold mines, their major source of employment. Mtshotsho dance for young boys and girls, with Ikinki musical bow.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Wdoyika u-Ntusangili

- Five young Ngqika women and girls (Performers), Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey

Wemb' ingcwaba

- Group of Baca Men (Performers), Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey

Wemka unlungu nelizwe

- Group of Xhosa women (Performers), Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey

Wena Bawondi Wela

- 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/10962/149199 , vital:38814 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR059-06
  • Description: The words of this song make no sense. The woman leading this song was pleased at the long final note of the song being recorded and said "This thing (i.e. the loud speaker) kept up with me the whole way. 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.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957
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