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Londida ("A butterfly", the flighty girl)

- Lamkhwanase Tsemba, 4 girls and group of men from the Queen mother's village, Hugh Tracey

Magumbo Mano Mhlaba (The four points of the compass)

- Tinote Dlamini and the try singers, Hugh Tracey

Mantentemezana (Herd boys' rain song)

- Group of small boys, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of small boys , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Ewatini Lobamba, Mbabane f-sq
  • Language: Swati
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152184 , vital:39231 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR068-02
  • Description: This song is a well known and recited by herd boys on seeing small clouds appear in the sky calling the clouds to collect and drop their rain for the cattle they are herding. Alternately for the clouds to spread out and allow the sun to shine again. Herd boy's rain song
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Mashdosholwane

- Mfihlelwa Magagula, Hugh Tracey

Maye Maye Inesizema (Maye maye this is really hard work)

- Justina Shabangu and group of Swazi girls and 4 men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Justina Shabangu and group of Swazi girls and 4 men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Eswatini Usutu Forest, Mbabane f-sq
  • Language: Swati
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152564 , vital:39310 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR070-07
  • Description: This group of singers are planters from block A. 5, Usutu Forest. This is said to be one of the largest man made forests in the world. About 90,000 acres. "Maye, maye, inesizema sizema sendeni. Hamba juba bokhuluta pambili." O-ho everyone, my husband is sick. Fly on little dove, you will be plucked further on. Hoeing song.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Mayeyelele mina kazula (I am lonely - I am an orphan)

- Josefa Malindisa, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Josefa Malindisa , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Eswatini Bremersdorp f-sq
  • Language: Swati
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152786 , vital:39342 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR072-07
  • Description: "The Zionists laughed at me because my mother died." There are many such laments as this composed by African men and women who help to resolve their personal tragedies by singing about them in public. Personal lament with concertina.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Mlembe special (Havelock compound special)

- The Star Brothers, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: The Star Brothers , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Eswatini Havelock mine f-sq
  • Language: Swati
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152751 , vital:39338 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR072-03
  • Description: This "gnome-like"" music, so easily played and accompanied has swept into popularity since 1956. It has an immediate effect upon young Africans, especially those under twenty and perhaps even more so upon the under ten year olds. Mlembe is a native Swati name for this Havelock asbestos mine. Every tune on the whistle-flutes or penny whistles enjoys the mane of "special: a trick learnt from gramophone record titles. They all imitate other tunes in an urban/folk manner until there is no telling which tune came first, which is the original, and which is the imitation. Town dance with 2 guitars (-10.58-), 2 penny whistle-flutes.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Munto olapo

- Mushumbo Dlamini, the Star Brothers, composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Muntu olapo (You there, you men, what are you saying?)

- Mushumbo Dlamini and the Star Brothers, Hugh Tracey

Myekelenahlome Kalakubeka (Let the Chief attack when staying at his mother's house)

- Large group of Swazi men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Large group of Swazi men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Ewatini Entonjeni, Pigg's Peak f-sq
  • Language: Swati
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152475 , vital:39282 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR069-08
  • Description: "Mye kelenahlome kahakubeka! Sihlangu Sengu enyama Sinyamalele! Lwandle lukhukhumu ke Lwashi'simizi yadoda. Lwashisa sigodlo. "Leave the Paramount Chief to attack whilst staying in his mother's house. The shield of the Paramount Chief has disappeared. The sea has risen and destroyed the houses of men and the king's palace. Umgubo regimental song (or group song).
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Nabaya banjibya ekhhaya (There they are, and they are calling me)

- Ntsandvose Mucina, five Swazi women and 5 men, Hugh Tracey

Nakhona Singianga Giba I

- Group of young Swazi men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of young Swazi men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Eswatini Lobamba, Mbabane f-sq
  • Language: Swati
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152965 , vital:39367 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR073-04
  • Description: A song for running and for walking. The same song is done in two styles. A young men do this style of chanting when loping from one village to another. Their songs change each year, they say, but the style of performance remains. It is part of the young men's set of dances also. "We are as many as those of Giba. We (the people of Sobhuza). Chant for running and walking.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Nakhona Singianga Giba II

- Group of young Swazi men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of young Swazi men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Eswatini Lobamba, Mbabane f-sq
  • Language: Swati
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152970 , vital:39368 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR073-05
  • Description: A song for running and for walking. The same song is done in two styles. A young men do this style of chanting when loping from one village to another. Their songs change each year, they say, but the style of performance remains. It is part of the young men's set of dances also. "We are as many as those of Giba. We (the people of Sobhuza). Chant for running and walking.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Nasi indoda ingishaya (My husband beats me)

- Five young women and group of men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Five young women and group of men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Eswatini Lobamba, Mbabane f-sq
  • Language: Swati
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153010 , vital:39372 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR073-09
  • Description: The women perform this dance after work or after bringing back the reeds to repair the village palings. These palings are well made with four horizontal strips tied with a woven grass cord (Lutinzi). Ukutsamba, with clapping and ankle rattles.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Ngibanjwe sigebengu sentombazana swazini (I made love to a girl who already had a lover)

- Group of 10 young Swazi men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of 10 young Swazi men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Eswatini Pigg's Peak f-sq
  • Language: Swati
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153064 , vital:39378 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR073-15
  • Description: "I made love to a girl who already had a lover. The case was brought against me by the policeman of the 'Ngonine' Estates. I would be a free man were it not for the Ngonine Estates." Ndlamu dance.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Nginyengwe luyengwe babe (I have been decived by a deceiver)

- Lompahlo Dlamini (women of about 28 years), Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Lompahlo Dlamini (women of about 28 years) , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Eswatini Emkhuzweni, Northern District f-sq
  • Language: Swati
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152807 , vital:39344 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR072-09
  • Description: "Intombi izonile kaNgwane. Ubongiyehla babe Ngubani lontshitshinpondo, Ayinihe emashangane?" "A girl has spoiled herself in KaNgwane. Father, you should leave me alone. You, who changes a pound note and gives it to the Shangaans?" In this song the performer creates a buzzing effect by holding the beater grass against the vibrating string of the bow. It is an interesting melody. Topical song with Makweyana musical bow, stressed and gourd resonated.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Ngitowucelinkhoto nahojaba (I have come to ask for admission from thr groom's mother)

- Lomadlozi Dlamini and group of Swazi women, Hugh Tracey

Ngoneni ngoneni bakithi (What have I done in Mataffin?)

- Roselina Ndohle and Juana Nkosi, Hugh Tracey

Ngwenyama usenta lunya kuze (The Paramount Chief has not done right)

- Group of Swazi men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of Swazi men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Ewatini Pigg's Peak f-sq
  • Language: Swati
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152385 , vital:39272 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR069-01
  • Description: "Ihubo", the song of the Mahindani Regiment. The Paramount Chief Sibuya has not done right in allowing the Europeans to create the Ngonini Estates of Mbhanbadane. The story giving rise to the song is that certain African employees of the "Ngonini" estates seduced the wives of other men of neighbouring villages, who then declared that the paramount chief had done wrong in allowing the "Ngonini Estates" to settle there at Mbhambadane. Umgubo regimental song.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Nyajabula Violet (Happy is violet)

- Tsembani Kunene, Hugh Tracey

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