Tsa eja setsi
- Group of Sotho men and small Sotho boys (Performers), Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Group of Sotho men and small Sotho boys (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Sotho , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-za
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134196 , vital:37098 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR018-05
- Description: The spirited re-enaction of a mouse-hunt was performed by a group of middle-aged Sotho men, who had all gone mouse-hunting in their youth as herdboys. One sat on the ground, stabbing at imaginery mice, whilst the others encouraged him with shouts and cries-indicating in which direction the mouse had gone. It got away.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Group of Sotho men and small Sotho boys (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Sotho , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-za
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134196 , vital:37098 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR018-05
- Description: The spirited re-enaction of a mouse-hunt was performed by a group of middle-aged Sotho men, who had all gone mouse-hunting in their youth as herdboys. One sat on the ground, stabbing at imaginery mice, whilst the others encouraged him with shouts and cries-indicating in which direction the mouse had gone. It got away.
- 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
Ngoma ya bantwana (Song for the children)
- Women of Kalana location, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Women of Kalana 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/10962/149467 , vital:38855 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR059-13
- Description: This lullaby was sung by about 50 mothers and grandmothers and one man. "Tula Ntwana musukulila." (Be quiet child and go to sleep). Lullaby.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Women of Kalana 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/10962/149467 , vital:38855 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR059-13
- Description: This lullaby was sung by about 50 mothers and grandmothers and one man. "Tula Ntwana musukulila." (Be quiet child and go to sleep). Lullaby.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Thali ea ma tsoana (The lightening of the Chieftainess)
- Sotho men and women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Sotho men and women , 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/10962/151572 , vital:39143 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR064-12
- Description: This song is a work song for hoeing. Agricultural and domestic work song for grinding.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Sotho men and women , 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/10962/151572 , vital:39143 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR064-12
- Description: This song is a work song for hoeing. Agricultural and domestic work song for grinding.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Izibongo dalindyebo (Izibongo for Chief Dalindyebo)
- Three Mpondo Children, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Three Mpondo Children , 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 Tabankulu f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139625 , vital:37758 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR050-03
- Description: Amongst other things they say: "You, Chief, are like a free woman, (a courtesan) meaning "You are beautifully dressed." "I want a beast with turned down horns." The children shrugged their shoulders down, left and right alternately to imitate the horns." Children's verses
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Three Mpondo Children , 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 Tabankulu f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139625 , vital:37758 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR050-03
- Description: Amongst other things they say: "You, Chief, are like a free woman, (a courtesan) meaning "You are beautifully dressed." "I want a beast with turned down horns." The children shrugged their shoulders down, left and right alternately to imitate the horns." Children's verses
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Intlnganiso ya magqiha ye Isangoma (Proceddings at Herbalist's meeting)
- Led by Masamaigazi and Nowinile, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Led by Masamaigazi and Nowinile , 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/10962/139592 , vital:37756 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR050-01
- Description: Nowinile is the wife of L. S. Khontsiwe, the 'President' of the African National Herbalist Dokhtors Association. Proceedings at Herbalists's meeting, with songs, speech and refrains, with clapping, stampingand 1 bass drum. (-14.04-)
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Led by Masamaigazi and Nowinile , 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/10962/139592 , vital:37756 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR050-01
- Description: Nowinile is the wife of L. S. Khontsiwe, the 'President' of the African National Herbalist Dokhtors Association. Proceedings at Herbalists's meeting, with songs, speech and refrains, with clapping, stampingand 1 bass drum. (-14.04-)
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Sebedubedu
- 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/10962/189395 , vital:44843 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR195-17
- Description: My breatbone is painful. I went to my grandmother and told her. I was crying, I had no mother, no father. I sing about my breastbone and I feel better. Chorus: "Hlala mahlalela." Topical song with Autoharp, 2 small drums, made of tins with rubber heads and 1 rattle
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1960
- 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/10962/189395 , vital:44843 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR195-17
- Description: My breatbone is painful. I went to my grandmother and told her. I was crying, I had no mother, no father. I sing about my breastbone and I feel better. Chorus: "Hlala mahlalela." Topical song with Autoharp, 2 small drums, made of tins with rubber heads and 1 rattle
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1960
Shuru Mmamutsumi
- 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/10962/189408 , vital:44844 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR195-18
- Description: A man had two wives, one old and the other young. There was jealousy among them. "Today is your last day." Shuru the younger sings, "why do you greet him as your man?" Then Shuru and Makuwe killed the elder, cut her in two, removed her legs, head abd arms, locked the door and set fire to the house. They tried to burn the whole house with the old woman in it, but the people came and said "Fetch the police." They put Makuwe inside the house and told Shuru to sweep the yard. But she dropped the broom and ran far away. The police could not find her. She went to Mpulutsi station and put on Shangaan clothes so as not to be recognised. The police told Shuru's brother "We will kill unless you tell us where she is." So he took them to Mpulutsi and showed her to them. She claimed to have been alone in the crime and Makuwe was discharged, "Did anyone see Shuru burn the house or kill the girl?" "No." She is discharged. This is said to have taken place in Feburary 1963. Chorus: 'Aghe Mangwaku.' Yes Mangwaku (Shuru's married name). This song was composed by Ncha basing his words, he claims, upon what he alleges was a true incident that happened only four months before. Topical song with Autoharp, 2 small drums, made of tins with rubber heads and 1 rattle
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1960
- 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/10962/189408 , vital:44844 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR195-18
- Description: A man had two wives, one old and the other young. There was jealousy among them. "Today is your last day." Shuru the younger sings, "why do you greet him as your man?" Then Shuru and Makuwe killed the elder, cut her in two, removed her legs, head abd arms, locked the door and set fire to the house. They tried to burn the whole house with the old woman in it, but the people came and said "Fetch the police." They put Makuwe inside the house and told Shuru to sweep the yard. But she dropped the broom and ran far away. The police could not find her. She went to Mpulutsi station and put on Shangaan clothes so as not to be recognised. The police told Shuru's brother "We will kill unless you tell us where she is." So he took them to Mpulutsi and showed her to them. She claimed to have been alone in the crime and Makuwe was discharged, "Did anyone see Shuru burn the house or kill the girl?" "No." She is discharged. This is said to have taken place in Feburary 1963. Chorus: 'Aghe Mangwaku.' Yes Mangwaku (Shuru's married name). This song was composed by Ncha basing his words, he claims, upon what he alleges was a true incident that happened only four months before. Topical song with Autoharp, 2 small drums, made of tins with rubber heads and 1 rattle
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1960
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
Intsizwa zombango bekinduka pantsi (Quarrelling youths, put down your sticks)
- Group of Mpondo men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Group of Mpondo men , 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/10962/150841 , vital:39011 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR061-10
- Description: The group started off during the rehasal by singing: "We won't be beaten by women." This was received by much raillery and laughter on the part of the women. Umhogo old fighting song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Group of Mpondo men , 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/10962/150841 , vital:39011 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR061-10
- Description: The group started off during the rehasal by singing: "We won't be beaten by women." This was received by much raillery and laughter on the part of the women. Umhogo old fighting song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Khanya Kude
- Mwamitwa, Fanisa, Shangaan women, Tracey, Hugh
- Authors: Mwamitwa, Fanisa , Shangaan women , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- 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 Tzaneen f-sa
- Language: Venda , Tsonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/187885 , vital:44706 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR193-13
- Description: Fanisa Mwamitwa is the 'Sati waHosi', the wife of the Chief. The connection between the meaning of the words of the song and its description as a praise song is not clear. "Bright light (from afar) they mean you, Mindawaze, worrysome. Keep cool, you Mindawaze, the child is crying." Praise song - (in praise of herself)
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
- Authors: Mwamitwa, Fanisa , Shangaan women , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- 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 Tzaneen f-sa
- Language: Venda , Tsonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/187885 , vital:44706 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR193-13
- Description: Fanisa Mwamitwa is the 'Sati waHosi', the wife of the Chief. The connection between the meaning of the words of the song and its description as a praise song is not clear. "Bright light (from afar) they mean you, Mindawaze, worrysome. Keep cool, you Mindawaze, the child is crying." Praise song - (in praise of herself)
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
Injeke, injeke, he (Like this, like this)
- Group of young Mpondo boys, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Group of young Mpondo 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/10962/136560 , vital:37391 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR032-04
- Description: The leader sang in a forced, guttural voice. 3 Gubura dances for young men.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Group of young Mpondo 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/10962/136560 , vital:37391 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR032-04
- Description: The leader sang in a forced, guttural voice. 3 Gubura dances for young men.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ngimthanda nje muhle
- Constance Magogo (Performer), C. Magogo (Composer), Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Constance Magogo (Performer) , C. Magogo (Composer) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1955
- Subjects: Music--South Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Zulu , Africa South Africa Mahlabatini f-sa
- Language: Zulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133122 , vital:36937 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR010-13
- Description: Love song with Ugubu bow, vertical, single string, unbraced
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1955
- Authors: Constance Magogo (Performer) , C. Magogo (Composer) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1955
- Subjects: Music--South Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Zulu , Africa South Africa Mahlabatini f-sa
- Language: Zulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133122 , vital:36937 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR010-13
- Description: Love song with Ugubu bow, vertical, single string, unbraced
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1955
Nongangela (All the young men from Timgqimqi's location are alike)
- Authors: Sam Tyutwana , 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/10962/150779 , vital:39005 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR061-05
- Description: The old men Tyutwana asked specially to sing his own dance song with his friends. The song he said, was for a dance called Nongangela which they dance when they are all very happy. Dance song for Nongangela dance.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Sam Tyutwana , 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/10962/150779 , vital:39005 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR061-05
- Description: The old men Tyutwana asked specially to sing his own dance song with his friends. The song he said, was for a dance called Nongangela which they dance when they are all very happy. Dance song for Nongangela dance.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Kwanukimpi (The smell of war)
- Group of elder Mpondo men and women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Group of elder Mpondo men and 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/10962/136398 , vital:37372 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR030-06
- Description: The Mpondo groups of dancers move in a very tightly packed formation, holding their sticks aloft in the right hand. The men in the front rank performed Badumisa, or praise of the chief, advancing up to him and performing great leaps. Umrobo old fighting songs.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Group of elder Mpondo men and 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/10962/136398 , vital:37372 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR030-06
- Description: The Mpondo groups of dancers move in a very tightly packed formation, holding their sticks aloft in the right hand. The men in the front rank performed Badumisa, or praise of the chief, advancing up to him and performing great leaps. Umrobo old fighting songs.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ndibolekeni ibayi ndembathe madoda (Please, lend me a blanket to cover myself)
- Gcaleka women and girls, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Gcaleka women 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/10962/150970 , vital:39024 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR062-07
- Description: Drinking songs are sung with great abandon, the women holding their hands above their heads to clap them. Drinking song with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Gcaleka women 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/10962/150970 , vital:39024 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR062-07
- Description: Drinking songs are sung with great abandon, the women holding their hands above their heads to clap them. Drinking song with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Dlalani (Name of a man)
- 5 young Xhosa men and women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: 5 young Xhosa men and women , 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/10962/150741 , vital:39001 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR061-01
- Description: The song is in praise of a man who has many lovers. This song and the following one were sung by a group of very beautifully dressed young people, the men dancers elegantly blanketed and beaded, the girls wearing pale ochre skirts with many rows of indigo blue braid and their headcloths of indingo blie wool were folded about their heads to form a tall tubular headdress rather like that of Queen Nefertiti. Before the recording started, but whilst the singers were "warming up" there was rather a curious little ceremony which forms part of the dance. One of the girls went around removing the men dancers's headcloths revealing their head bead ornaments. She put their headcloths on her own head, then returned to the line of girls and gave each girl her own young mans' headcloth, which was then tied round the girl's head. A stick specially decorated for dancing is called "Libunguza." Intolombe dance for young people with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: 5 young Xhosa men and women , 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/10962/150741 , vital:39001 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR061-01
- Description: The song is in praise of a man who has many lovers. This song and the following one were sung by a group of very beautifully dressed young people, the men dancers elegantly blanketed and beaded, the girls wearing pale ochre skirts with many rows of indigo blue braid and their headcloths of indingo blie wool were folded about their heads to form a tall tubular headdress rather like that of Queen Nefertiti. Before the recording started, but whilst the singers were "warming up" there was rather a curious little ceremony which forms part of the dance. One of the girls went around removing the men dancers's headcloths revealing their head bead ornaments. She put their headcloths on her own head, then returned to the line of girls and gave each girl her own young mans' headcloth, which was then tied round the girl's head. A stick specially decorated for dancing is called "Libunguza." Intolombe dance for young people with clapping.
- 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
Makwidi
- Mapulana men and women, Tracey, Hugh
- Authors: Mapulana men and women , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Pedi (African people) , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Bushbuck Ridge f-sa
- Language: Pedi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/188104 , vital:44723 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR194-06
- Description: There is a song first, then a declamation by Williamu Lebyane at 2m 30s with he Siyavuma responses followed by a short song again at 5m 10s. The shricking and general noise all contributes to the pleasureable hysteria associated with this kind of activity. "Makwidi (Bulbul) perch on the bird lime so I can catch you." Bird lime is made from the fruit of a certain tree parasite which is usually found on the marula tree. It is first rolled and masticated in the month and then rolled onto a twig. The Bulbul referred to is the one numbered R-544 in the Roberts 'Birds of South Africa' and is widely distributed throughout Southern Africa. Divination - Siyavuma - game with 3 drums, open, pegged, single head
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
- Authors: Mapulana men and women , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Pedi (African people) , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Bushbuck Ridge f-sa
- Language: Pedi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/188104 , vital:44723 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR194-06
- Description: There is a song first, then a declamation by Williamu Lebyane at 2m 30s with he Siyavuma responses followed by a short song again at 5m 10s. The shricking and general noise all contributes to the pleasureable hysteria associated with this kind of activity. "Makwidi (Bulbul) perch on the bird lime so I can catch you." Bird lime is made from the fruit of a certain tree parasite which is usually found on the marula tree. It is first rolled and masticated in the month and then rolled onto a twig. The Bulbul referred to is the one numbered R-544 in the Roberts 'Birds of South Africa' and is widely distributed throughout Southern Africa. Divination - Siyavuma - game with 3 drums, open, pegged, single head
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
Khokong
- Group of Sotho men (Perfomers), Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Group of Sotho men (Perfomers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Sotho , Work songs , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-za
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134132 , vital:37077 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR018-02
- Description: They said that the breast skin of the buffalo is the hardest of all to bray and takes much time and labour.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Group of Sotho men (Perfomers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Sotho , Work songs , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-za
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134132 , vital:37077 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR018-02
- Description: They said that the breast skin of the buffalo is the hardest of all to bray and takes much time and labour.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957