Intombi zipelile (The girls are finished)
- Group of young Mpondo men and girls, Hugh Tracey
- 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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- 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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Heehee ndithe gebelele
- Group of Qwathi women, Hugh Tracey
- 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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- 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.
- Full Text: false
- 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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- 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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Mama (Mother)
- Group of Mpondo men and 3 girls, Hugh Tracey
- 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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- 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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Intlanganiso ya magqiha ye Izangoma (Herbalists' meeting
- Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey
- 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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- 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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ndinike inkomo zolobole (Give back mu dowry)
- 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/10962/136383 , 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.
- 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/10962/136383 , 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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Nokala (The crab)
- 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/10962/136515 , 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.
- 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/10962/136515 , 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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Tula mutwana
- Two elderly women (Performers), Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Two elderly 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/10962/133660 , vital:37001 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR013-13
- Description: Lullaby with clapping
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Two elderly 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/10962/133660 , vital:37001 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR013-13
- Description: Lullaby with clapping
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Intlnganiso ya magqiha ye Isangoma (Proceedings at Herbalist's meeting)
- Led by the 'President' L. S. Khontsiwe and men and woman herbalists, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Led by the 'President' L. S. Khontsiwe and men and woman herbalists , 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 Umtata f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139574 , vital:37752 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR049-03
- Description: The 'President'. L. S. Khontsiwe comes from the Qumbu district about 40 miles north of Umtata. His headquaters are in the Ngqai location, Kat Kop, Maclear, Transkei. He is the founder of a Herbalist Society, which has the recognition of the South African Government under licence. Proceedings by herbalists, with songs, speech and refrains, with clapping and stamping and 1 bass drum (-14.04-).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Led by the 'President' L. S. Khontsiwe and men and woman herbalists , 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 Umtata f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139574 , vital:37752 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR049-03
- Description: The 'President'. L. S. Khontsiwe comes from the Qumbu district about 40 miles north of Umtata. His headquaters are in the Ngqai location, Kat Kop, Maclear, Transkei. He is the founder of a Herbalist Society, which has the recognition of the South African Government under licence. Proceedings by herbalists, with songs, speech and refrains, with clapping and stamping and 1 bass drum (-14.04-).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ukubula (To thrash out the affair)
- Group of Mpondo men and women led by Khotso, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Group of Mpondo men and women led by Khotso , 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/10962/136524 , vital:37387 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR031-10
- Description: This was an impromptu sketch of a supposed divination, by Khotso and 2 women. It was a sprited performance of an old time custom. "We didn't know we were going to be found out." says one of the women. One question was: "Whose baboon is this?" "You had better clap your hands, he says to the people. I see them all, I'm going to catch you all. You'd better agree." The group chorused: "Kill the witches. kill the witches." He went on: "Look out, you witches and behave yourselves." He ends up saying to the Chief: "All right, they've all agreed." The witches were accused of having snakes, baboons, "tikoloshes" (gnomes)- everything. "Kali shaya" - "Speak, speak." "Siya vuma" - "We agree-we agree." "Woman, is this your snake?" "Yes, it is", etc., etc. Divibation sketch with clapping and drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Group of Mpondo men and women led by Khotso , 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/10962/136524 , vital:37387 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR031-10
- Description: This was an impromptu sketch of a supposed divination, by Khotso and 2 women. It was a sprited performance of an old time custom. "We didn't know we were going to be found out." says one of the women. One question was: "Whose baboon is this?" "You had better clap your hands, he says to the people. I see them all, I'm going to catch you all. You'd better agree." The group chorused: "Kill the witches. kill the witches." He went on: "Look out, you witches and behave yourselves." He ends up saying to the Chief: "All right, they've all agreed." The witches were accused of having snakes, baboons, "tikoloshes" (gnomes)- everything. "Kali shaya" - "Speak, speak." "Siya vuma" - "We agree-we agree." "Woman, is this your snake?" "Yes, it is", etc., etc. Divibation sketch with clapping and drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ubenga lahlinkomo (He lost the cattle)
- Group of Mpondo men and 3 girls, Hugh Tracey
- 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/10962/136542 , vital:37389 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR032-02
- Description: The three girls, very gaily beaded, were there simply to add a high shrill descant to the main chorus. Gubura dance for young men.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- 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/10962/136542 , vital:37389 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR032-02
- Description: The three girls, very gaily beaded, were there simply to add a high shrill descant to the main chorus. Gubura dance for young men.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Inkulu into ezakwenzeka
- Nontwintwi and Annie Macholweni (Performers), Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Nontwintwi and Annie Macholweni (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/10962/133587 , vital:36993 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR013-06
- Description: Self-delactative song with Hadi bow, unbraced, open string and resonated
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Nontwintwi and Annie Macholweni (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/10962/133587 , vital:36993 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR013-06
- Description: Self-delactative song with Hadi bow, unbraced, open string and resonated
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
O, ama Jalimani (Oh, the Germans)
- 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/10962/136731 , vital:37412 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR033-09
- Description: Most of the women were married, wearing the beaded, tubular headring of the Mpondo married women. One young girl wore a mass of bead choker necklaces in the favourite Mpondo colours, sky-blue and white. The married women wore their hair in a mass of long fine twists or plaits, and wore a number of bead necklaces. 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/10962/136731 , vital:37412 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR033-09
- Description: Most of the women were married, wearing the beaded, tubular headring of the Mpondo married women. One young girl wore a mass of bead choker necklaces in the favourite Mpondo colours, sky-blue and white. The married women wore their hair in a mass of long fine twists or plaits, and wore a number of bead necklaces. Party song for young people with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Lamnandi ugolohlang (That has fetched this person)
- 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/10962/136596 , vital:37395 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR032-08
- Description: Citaumvano, the singer, praises Mis Gertie Carter's store. Miss Carter is a well-known and much respected figure in the district, her father having established the store about 1870, about 25 years before the annexation of Pondoland. Praise song with guitar.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- 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/10962/136596 , vital:37395 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR032-08
- Description: Citaumvano, the singer, praises Mis Gertie Carter's store. Miss Carter is a well-known and much respected figure in the district, her father having established the store about 1870, about 25 years before the annexation of Pondoland. Praise song with guitar.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ihobe liyataka (Dove, don't run away, don't hop about)
- 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 Lusikisiki f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136660 , vital:37402 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR033-01
- Description: The clapping was done by striking the open palm of the right hand on the fist of the left, or cupped fingers of the left hand. This is called Umngcutsho. Part song with clapping.
- 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 Lusikisiki f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136660 , vital:37402 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR033-01
- Description: The clapping was done by striking the open palm of the right hand on the fist of the left, or cupped fingers of the left hand. This is called Umngcutsho. Part 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
Masihambe bawo silele emzini (We slept at a certain kraal, let us go early)
- 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/10962/136702 , vital:37407 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR033-06
- Description: This performance was begun by one woman and then taken over by another. It appears as if they may go on doing this as long as they wish. The women twine cotton woll in with the long fine plaits of hair at the back of their head. 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/10962/136702 , vital:37407 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR033-06
- Description: This performance was begun by one woman and then taken over by another. It appears as if they may go on doing this as long as they wish. The women twine cotton woll in with the long fine plaits of hair at the back of their head. Party song for women.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Miss Mababo
- Group of Mpondo men and girls, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Group of Mpondo men and 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/10962/136764 , vital:37416 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR033-12
- Description: One of the young girls added the deep guttural rhythmic sounds peculiar to Xhosa singing. The singers were each of them singing into a slightly vibrating cupped hand. They were all lying on their stomachs on the grass wrapped in their blankets and looking like basking seals. Dance song for young people.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Group of Mpondo men and 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/10962/136764 , vital:37416 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR033-12
- Description: One of the young girls added the deep guttural rhythmic sounds peculiar to Xhosa singing. The singers were each of them singing into a slightly vibrating cupped hand. They were all lying on their stomachs on the grass wrapped in their blankets and looking like basking seals. Dance song for young people.
- 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
Nai puma kuma kuba ngii ndoda
- Authors: Nqwane Mbontyi , 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/10962/136633 , vital:37398 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR032-13
- Description: The performer was quite a humorist in his way, and had a most infectious gaiety, much appreciated by the crown. His name Nqwane Mbonity means "Just like a bean".- He wore a characteristically Mpondo hairdo, the hair cropped close except for the forelock which was allowed to grow long, then plaited into several strings, which were all beeswaxed together into one lock, plastered to the forehead, or reaching down like a small horn to the level of the eyebrows. Tune on the harmonica.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Nqwane Mbontyi , 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/10962/136633 , vital:37398 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR032-13
- Description: The performer was quite a humorist in his way, and had a most infectious gaiety, much appreciated by the crown. His name Nqwane Mbonity means "Just like a bean".- He wore a characteristically Mpondo hairdo, the hair cropped close except for the forelock which was allowed to grow long, then plaited into several strings, which were all beeswaxed together into one lock, plastered to the forehead, or reaching down like a small horn to the level of the eyebrows. Tune on the harmonica.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957