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Intombi zipelile (The girls are finished)

  • Authors: Group of young Mpondo men and girls , 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/10962/136362 , vital:37368 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR030-02
  • Description: The young men were mostly wearing pale blue blankets and carrying sticks; the girls were beautifully beaded. They wore their hair in many fine plaits hanging on either side of the face. Over this was worn the tubular bead headring or headband, (if the girl was unmarried) mostly in pale blue and white beads, many strands of sky blue and white beads wound about their necks to form choker collars. Song for Indlam' dance, with clapping of sticks.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Heehee ndithe gebelele

  • Authors: Group of Qwathi women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Herbalists , Africa South Africa Engcobo f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134841 , vital:37211 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0022-02
  • Description: In the course of this divination song, they broke off for a woman to call out after the fashion of the diviners, to which everyone clapped their hands replying "siya vuma", "we agree". Song for diviner's ceremony with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

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

  • 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

Ndinga Ngonyoko (I am old as your mother and I know everything)

Yinina ke we Sponono

Hayitsho Nongongobala

  • Authors: Young 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/10962/151264 , vital:39045 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR063-14
  • Description: The words of the dance are apparently meanigless except for the title. When the young herd boys returned with their cattle, sheep and goats to the village they joined in the party and sang these two songs which are typical of the present day type of dance songs used in the district. Young people's dance song and Umtshongolo dance with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Ha setimela se tsamaea (While the train goes)

  • Authors: Lesholu Molai , 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/10962/151601 , vital:39146 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR064-15
  • Description: The player said he had made his Sitolotolo only that day, so it had not had time to dry out and resonate the sound properly. Consequently the overtones resonated in the month were relatively weak. Self-delectative song with Sitolotolo mouth bow. (Tube with 2 end sections of bow-braced).
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Ngamibonge Amakentani (Please praise the Kentani people)

Tshikona

  • Authors: Eleven Venda men , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Venda (African people) , Tsonga (African people) , Folk songs, Tsonga , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Sibasa f-sa
  • Language: Venda , Tsonga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/187674 , vital:44685 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR193-01
  • Description: The drum was beaten by two men, each with one wooden beater. Each player holds one end-blown pipe and adds his single note to the ensemble as with bell ringers. They dance around the drums in an anti-clockwise circle, performing steps in unison changing the routine with different with different movements of the dance. Scale:- 632, 520, 488, 432, 380, 348, 316, 280, 248, 228, 216. Instrumental tune, pipe ensemble, heptatonic with Chikona pipe ensemble and 1 single-headed, pegged drums, closed with two wooden beaters (-14.02103-)
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Lithoko

Ngazula ezintabeni

Mama (Mother)

  • 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/10962/136533 , vital:37388 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR032-01
  • Description: The singers were dancing in a circle in closely packed formation and each singing into a cupped hand which was slightly vibrated to and fro, to produce a vibrato effect. Gubura dance for young men.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Intlanganiso ya magqiha ye Izangoma (Herbalists' meeting

  • Authors: Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Herbalists , Africa South Africa Umtata f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134821 , vital:37209 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0022-01
  • Description: Extracts from the proceedings at the first conference of Izangoma Diviners, to be held in Umtata, Transkei. The speech and songs were entirely impromptu and demonstrate the type of speech employed by such herbalists and their supporting singers or assistants. Herbalists' meeting, with songs, speech, with clapping, stamping and 1 bass drum.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Ndinike inkomo zolobole (Give back mu dowry)

  • 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/10962/136383 , vital:37371 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR030-05
  • 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

Nyakumtyela egageni (You will eat it out of doors)

Maga kumaziyanziya

Nokala (The crab)

  • Authors: Khotso and 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/10962/136515 , vital:37386 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR031-09
  • Description: The women in this group all wore green cotton dresses and green head cloths. They had strands of beads round their necks worked in stripes of green, yellow, white and blue. Khotso said he had taken this colour scheme from the Vierkleur. The men, in addition to this, wore a lavish number of strings of "lucky beans" or seeds, of a pearl-grey colour. These are exclusively worn by the Izangoma. Divination song with clapping and 5 drums.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Ahe likalakati

Umbala (Colour)

  • 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

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