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Salani mwana manani

- Mwamitwa, Juinu Thlongo, Tracey, Hugh

Krubo

- Group of Hlangwini men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of 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/10962/151300 , vital:39049 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR064-02
  • Description: "When we were going to Swendlana, the watchers said: 'attach', and the whole world burst." The translation of this item, as given on the spot, is far from clear and needs further elucidation. The song was sung, they say, during the last century when the Hlangwini people came down from Zululand and ousted the Sotho. Ihubo old fighting song.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957

Mahlalela

- Ncha, Frank, Three girls, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Ncha, Frank , Three girls , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1960
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Pedi (African people) , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Leydsdorp f-sa
  • Language: Pedi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/189386 , vital:44842 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR195-16
  • Description: Who are we going to dance with? Today we dance with women because Mahlelela is very fond of women, refusing to dance with the girls. When Mahlalela dances in his big "Scotch" hat his head wobbles from side to side, and people laugh "Chekula, chekula. elewee." In the 1920's the autoharp was the most popular of foreign manufactured unstruments, several hundred thousand having been sold to Africans in South Africa alone. It then suffered a sharp decline and today in 1963 very few can be found except among the Pedi where a few are still played. Topical song with Autoharp, 2 small drums, made of tins with rubber heads and 1 rattle
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1960

Umama litshipa (Mother is an absconder)

- Gcaleka boys and girls, Hugh Tracey

Umgaq' uphum' entabeni

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

He re bamang

- Group of Sotho men and Khotso Lepheana (Performers), Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey

Mdlankomo (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/10962/150921 , vital:39017 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR062-01
  • Description: This particular group was very simple. The reaction to hearing the loudspeaker was immediately to join in, and it appeared to take them some little time to realize that they were in fact hearing themselves, and not just listening to some other Gcaleka singing. Circumcision song for the Abakweta dance with clapping.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957

Lithoko tsa Morena Neo Sibi

- Group of Sotho men and Khotso Lepheana (Performers), Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey

Lahiwe indoda (When your husband is throwing you out of his house)

- Group of young Mpondo men and women, Hugh Tracey

Kwanukimpi (The smell of war)

- Group of elderly Mpondo men, Hugh Tracey

Hiwawanaru emabazini - e

- Mutombeni, Daine, Shangaan girls, Tracey, Hugh

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

Ukugwiya

- Group of old Hlubi men, Hugh Tracey

Kauvele ubona (Appear and look)

- 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/10962/136679 , vital:37404 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR033-03
  • Description: When the women clapped their hands they all chanted: "I left my lover." It appears that one woman can break in with her own song, thus taking over from another woman. Women's party song with clapping.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957

O' Nonqayi ndoboqana

- Nontwintwi and Annie Macholweni (Performers), Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey

Tula Tula

- Iris Mjekula, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Iris Mjekula , 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/10962/149458 , vital:38854 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR059-12
  • Description: The singer (believed to be a coloured woman) changed the tune to a European one half way through.Her baby co-operated well. This tune was sung by a woman in traditional costume... The same baby, held in its mother's arms, was too charmed by the song to cry, so had to be tickled and patted by its mother into co-operation. Lullaby.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957

Ibande lokusibopha

- Performer not specified, Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey

Iduma lya gebuza (The gash-the cut)

- Boys of Kalana Location, Hugh Tracey

Ezimaqiya (A woman's headdress)

- Group of old Hlubi men, Hugh Tracey

Sitimela ga puma e Rhodesia (The train comes from Rhodesia)

- Young men and boys, Hugh Tracey

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