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

  • 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

Bayeza kusasa (They are coming tomorrow)

  • Authors: Group of Xhosa women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Willowvale f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136122 , vital:37340 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR028-08
  • Description: Thsi was sung by a group of about 50 Gcaleka women all dressed in their traditional costumes with shawls and skirts made of "Kaffir sheeting" coloured with yellow or russet red ochre. Divination song with clapping,
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Hlakanyana (The wonderful child)

  • Authors: Nolokoza , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Willowvale f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136091 , vital:37336 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR028-07
  • Description: At the begining of the story, a hen which had been walking about between and over the closely packed women in the hut (who were all sitting on the ground) rushed out again, cackling. The story teller can be heard cracking her fingers, snapping them,clapping her hands and so on. Her gestures were very expressive. The story is about a wonderful child. The very day he was born, he said: "Give me my trousers, I'm off to the mines." On the way he met a white man who was looking for 40 boys. "All right, my boss, here I am." - So he was given 40 sickles and in a trice he had reaped all the corn and came back for more work. He did otehr wonderful things and his employer then began to realise he would have to pay him 40 salaries! So he employer laid various traps for him, like digging a hole for him to fall into so that he should be buried alive, but he evaded them all. And in the end he was paid in full. - "a lump sum" and went off home with just reward. A story.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Hlungulwana (A small hawk)

  • Authors: Group of Xhosa women and Notembile and Nopenrose , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Willowvale f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136069 , vital:37334 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR028-04
  • Description: The words are simple and repetitive, the 'magic' of these quite songs for the Xhosa lies in thier repetitive and drowsy charm,conducing to dreaming, either waking or asleep. Self-delectative song with Hadi musical bow, unbraced, open and resonated.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Isele (The rapacious frog)

  • Authors: Nosayini , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Storytelling , Africa South Africa Willowvale f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136179 , vital:37346 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR028-13
  • Description: Recorded in a Gcaleka hut. Most huts have one small window, about the size of a ship's porthole, but this had none. There was once a frog who swallowed a baby and took it down to the river.- It gave the baby to another frog, who in turn swallowed it. The second frog took the baby back to its village. It met some boys on the way to whom it explained what it was going to do. So it gave back the baby and the people gave it a cow. The next morning it went back and asked for another cow which the people gave. But when it asked for a third cow on the following morning the people grew hungry and killed it. The name of the headman at whose kraal we recorded was KRIKRI ZWELILLUNGILE HLOKOMILE. Although the story-teller sang a song during the course of the story, the others did not sing a refrain, which is commonly the African practice. A story.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Isele (The rapacious frog)

  • Authors: Nosayini , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Storytelling , Africa South Africa Willowvale f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136170 , vital:37345 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR028-13
  • Description: Recorded in a Gcaleka hut. Most huts have one small window, about the size of a ship's porthole, but this had none. There was once a frog who swallowed a baby and took it down to the river.- It gave the baby to another frog, who in turn swallowed it. The second frog took the baby back to its village. It met some boys on the way to whom it explained what it was going to do. So it gave back the baby and the people gave it a cow. The next morning it went back and asked for another cow which the people gave. But when it asked for a third cow on the following morning the people grew hungry and killed it. The name of the headman at whose kraal we recorded was KRIKRI ZWELILLUNGILE HLOKOMILE. Although the story-teller sang a song during the course of the story, the others did not sing a refrain, which is commonly the African practice. A story.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Jomjom (A pot full of beer)

  • Authors: Group of Xhosa women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Willowvale f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136160 , vital:37344 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR028-12
  • Description: The singers also said:- "Gallop away quickly, horse of Sochongane." Whether from or to the party where the pot was full of beer, was not clear.- Sochongane was one of the men living nearby.- JOMJOM also means, they explained, the galloping of a horse. Drinking song with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Lalange ngudokwa (The diviners' children sleep on a goat's skin)

  • Authors: Group of Xhosa women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Willowvale f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136127 , vital:37341 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR028-09
  • Description: This was sung by a group of about 50 Gcaleka women all dressed in their traditional costumes with shawls and skirts made of "Kaffir sheeting" coloured with yellow or russet red ochre. Divination song with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Mahobahobo (The weaver-bird)

Mahobahobo (The weaver-bird)

  • Authors: Group of Xhosa women and Notembile and Nopenrose , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Willowvale f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136082 , vital:37335 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR028-05
  • Description: The women listened very intently to the playback of their song and laughed when the baby's voice was heard in the recording. Self-delectative song with Hadi musical bow, unbraced, open and resonated.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Mhala

  • Authors: Group of old Xhosa men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Willowvale f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136055 , vital:37332 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR028-02
  • Description: This song has no words, but anyone may put in interjections if he wishes. At one point a man praises the composer of this song. and later there are cries of encouragement- "Go on" - "Sing well" - "Make it a good song", and so on.- They were very pleased on hearing the closing shouts of approval when it was played back to them. Old people's song with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Mhlahlo (Greetings)

  • Authors: Group of old Xhosa me , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Willowvale f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136015 , vital:37327 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR028-01
  • Description: This song may be sung on any occasion by the older folk. It was explained that every ceremony or "occasion" , is opened by the singing of a "Mhlahlo" , which really means a 'begining' or opening song. Old people's greeting song with clapping
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Mtshawzo (To dance)

  • Authors: Group of Xhosa/Gcaleka women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Willowvale f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136142 , vital:37342 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR028-10
  • Description: The women of the Xhosa have special dances of their own, rather static, as might be expected of a people who live in a climate which can be very cold and wet, where most dancing must be done inside the huts to avoid the constant winds from the sea which drive over the downs. (Women dance for dancing at night inside the hut, with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Nombindlela (A roadmaker)

  • 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/10962/151246 , vital:39043 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR063-12
  • Description: The "raodmaker" refers to a man labouring on the local roads. During this song the 16 months old child on the back of one of the singers was clapping its small hands in time to the rhythms of the song which shows how soon small Africans begin to pick up their African music. Women's dance, with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Tsholoza

  • Authors: Group of Xhosa/Gcaleka women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Willowvale f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136151 , vital:37343 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR028-11
  • Description: This song is sung, they said, by the women for the boys to dance at night. Women's dance for clapping at night iside the hut, with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Ukutyiwa zezilo (I am enchanted by magic)

  • Authors: Group of Xhosa women and Notembile and Nopenrose , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Willowvale f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136064 , vital:37333 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR028-03
  • Description: This item was recorded inside a hut. We were told that this music (performed only by women) is only played at night, inside the huts. Those in the hut who are listening, must listen in silence, perhaps lie down and close their eyes and then "they must think of places far away, where they have never been, or of places where their sons or husbands are working." 2 Self-delectative songs with Hadi musical bow, unbraced, open and resonated.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957

Yavela i motokari (Here comes the motor car)

  • Authors: Group of Xhosa women and Notembile and Nopenrose , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Willowvale f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136100 , vital:37338 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR028-05
  • Description: The women listened very intently to the playback of their song and laughed when the baby's voice was heard in the recording. Self-delectative song with Hadi musical bow, unbraced, open and resonated.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957
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