Yizane Mbiza (Bring the pot)
- 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/10962/150660 , vital:38994 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR060-12
- 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).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- 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/10962/150660 , vital:38994 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR060-12
- 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).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Yeapinalekosi (Where does this Chief belong)
- Khotso and Mpondo men and women, Hugh Tracey
- 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/10962/136506 , vital:37385 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR031-08
- Description: "Yeapinalekosi? Yeye Lizilamapono." "Where does this Chief belong? He is of the country of the Mpondos." Khotso was in charge of this group of men and women and he is regarded as the most important of the local Izangoma, or herbalists in the Transkei. He bought them all down from Kokstad for the purpose. Divination song with clapping and 5 drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- 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/10962/136506 , vital:37385 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR031-08
- Description: "Yeapinalekosi? Yeye Lizilamapono." "Where does this Chief belong? He is of the country of the Mpondos." Khotso was in charge of this group of men and women and he is regarded as the most important of the local Izangoma, or herbalists in the Transkei. He bought them all down from Kokstad for the purpose. Divination song with clapping and 5 drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ye magwaza (To stab)
- Old Gcaleka men and women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Old Gcaleka men and 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/10962/150950 , vital:39020 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR062-03
- Description: This song was sung at an informal drinking party at a friend's hut. The singers were not informed beforehand and sang as they sat around on the ground at the party. The host's name, Nzomzoloni Mzelani. Circumcision song for Abakweta dance with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Old Gcaleka men and 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/10962/150950 , vital:39020 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR062-03
- Description: This song was sung at an informal drinking party at a friend's hut. The singers were not informed beforehand and sang as they sat around on the ground at the party. The host's name, Nzomzoloni Mzelani. Circumcision song for Abakweta dance with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Yazula inkabi endxla
- Group of 7 young men (Performers), Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Group of 7 young men (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Kingwilliamstown f-za
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133569 , vital:36991 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR013-04
- Description: Group fighting song with clapping
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Group of 7 young men (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Kingwilliamstown f-za
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133569 , vital:36991 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR013-04
- Description: Group fighting song with clapping
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Wolala (Wolala, why! Wolala, I am leaving)
- Young Xhosa men and women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Young Xhosa men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Folk music , Africa South Africa Kentani f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/150770 , vital:39004 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR061-04
- Description: Wolala is a man's name. There are few if any words in the lyric. This was sung by a group of young people, the girls and boys rather younger than the first group and not so gaily dressed. The girls clap their hands and stamp one foot alternately swinging rhythmically forward and backward. Mtshotsho dance for young men and women with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Young Xhosa men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Folk music , Africa South Africa Kentani f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/150770 , vital:39004 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR061-04
- Description: Wolala is a man's name. There are few if any words in the lyric. This was sung by a group of young people, the girls and boys rather younger than the first group and not so gaily dressed. The girls clap their hands and stamp one foot alternately swinging rhythmically forward and backward. Mtshotsho dance for young men and women with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Woho naizhi
- Group of old Hlubi men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Group of old Hlubi men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Tembu (African people) , Field recordings , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139687 , vital:37768 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR050-05
- Description: The people of this "location" are Hlubi, but they all speak Thembu, having no language of their own. Mgibo pre-initiation dance with sticks.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Group of old Hlubi men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Tembu (African people) , Field recordings , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139687 , vital:37768 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR050-05
- Description: The people of this "location" are Hlubi, but they all speak Thembu, having no language of their own. Mgibo pre-initiation dance with sticks.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Woho naizhi
- Group of old Hlubi men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Group of old Hlubi men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Tembu (African people) , Field recordings , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139678 , vital:37767 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR050-04
- Description: Some very spirited solo performances were put up by individuals who dashed out of a line to take up a new song, each replacing the last man. The first song indicated that the hero of the song had a case to bring. The second, that he should be caught. The third one that he should be held, and so on. Each of the many singers and dancers liked to come out into the ring, shout his individual cries and introduce his own song. The occassional interpolation of a horn was made by blowing through an pld rubber bulb type motor-cycle horn. Mgibo pre-initiation dance with sticks.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Group of old Hlubi men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Tembu (African people) , Field recordings , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139678 , vital:37767 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR050-04
- Description: Some very spirited solo performances were put up by individuals who dashed out of a line to take up a new song, each replacing the last man. The first song indicated that the hero of the song had a case to bring. The second, that he should be caught. The third one that he should be held, and so on. Each of the many singers and dancers liked to come out into the ring, shout his individual cries and introduce his own song. The occassional interpolation of a horn was made by blowing through an pld rubber bulb type motor-cycle horn. Mgibo pre-initiation dance with sticks.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
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
- 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
Wemka unlungu nelizwe
- Group of Xhosa women (Performers), Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Group of Xhosa women (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Kingwilliamstown f-za
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133641 , vital:36999 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR013-11
- Description: Lament with clapping
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Group of Xhosa women (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Kingwilliamstown f-za
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133641 , vital:36999 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR013-11
- Description: Lament with clapping
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Wdoyika u-Ntusangili
- Five young Ngqika women and girls (Performers), Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Five young Ngqika women and girls (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Kingwilliamstown f-za
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133512 , vital:36985 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR013-02
- Description: Party song for young people, with clapping
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Five young Ngqika women and girls (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Kingwilliamstown f-za
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133512 , vital:36985 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR013-02
- Description: Party song for young people, with clapping
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- 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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Wanyongoba (The worry)
- Women and children of Dabi's location, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Women and children of Dabi's location , 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/10962/150032 , vital:38932 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR059-19
- Description: "This worry that nags at me all the time." Threshing song, with sticks beaten on the ground.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Women and children of Dabi's location , 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/10962/150032 , vital:38932 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR059-19
- Description: "This worry that nags at me all the time." Threshing song, with sticks beaten on the ground.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Uxam (The Iguana)
- 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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- 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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- 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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Undebulisele ku Lungwengwe (Give my best wishes to Lungwengwe, also to your mother)
- 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/10962/136697 , vital:37406 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR033-05
- Description: Towards the end another woman took over the lead and then all the singers broke down laughing. Party song for women.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- 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/10962/136697 , vital:37406 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR033-05
- Description: Towards the end another woman took over the lead and then all the singers broke down laughing. Party song for women.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Umtsha wam' uyayizulisa ingqondoyam (My lover sends me out of my mind)
- Group of young Mpondo married woman, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Group of young Mpondo married woman , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Folk music , Africa South Africa Tabankulu f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/150817 , vital:39009 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR061-08
- Description: This group of young women wore pale blue and white blankets. There was only one married woman's bead heading but the rest wore either black cloths or pale blue towels, swathed or placed on the head like crowns, in place of the headring. Many had beautiful and diginified faces. One wore her snuff spoon in her crown. Love song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Group of young Mpondo married woman , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Folk music , Africa South Africa Tabankulu f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/150817 , vital:39009 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR061-08
- Description: This group of young women wore pale blue and white blankets. There was only one married woman's bead heading but the rest wore either black cloths or pale blue towels, swathed or placed on the head like crowns, in place of the headring. Many had beautiful and diginified faces. One wore her snuff spoon in her crown. Love song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- 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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Umgaq' uphum' entabeni
- Group of Baca Men (Performers), Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Group of Baca Men (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Zulu , Africa South Africa Kingwilliamstown f-za
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133497 , vital:36983 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR012-12
- Description: Song sung when a wizard or witch is to be put to death
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Group of Baca Men (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Zulu , Africa South Africa Kingwilliamstown f-za
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133497 , vital:36983 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR012-12
- Description: Song sung when a wizard or witch is to be put to death
- Full Text: false
- 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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- 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.
- Full Text: false
- 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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- 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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957