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Izibongo Dalindyebo

- Group of Mpondo women, Composer unknown, Tracey, Hugh

Ibhaca litwele ibaketi

- Group of Mpondo women, Composer unknown, Tracey, Hugh

IIphi ingubo yam? Isehla thini

- Group of Mpondo women, Composer unknown, Tracey, Hugh

Ndinike inkomo zolobolo

- Group of Mpondo women, Composer unknown, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Group of Mpondo women , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1957-05-23
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Tabankulu f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/228438 , vital:49558 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT427-L48 , Research no. L1U9
  • Description: A girls' initiation song, accompanied by clapping, demanding the lobola back from someone who has it, .
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957-05-23

Ndipuze phi?

- Group of Mpondo women, Composer unknown, Tracey, Hugh

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

Ndipeze phi? (Where should I drink?)

- 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/10962/136378 , vital:37370 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR030-04
  • 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

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
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