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Abatandani ngumasingili

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

Asazi kambe (We don't know what will happen)

- Men of Tuku's of Tuku Location, Hugh Tracey

Babalasi (The hangover)

- Irene Buyiswa Ndumo, Jury Mpelho, Jury Mpelho, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Irene Buyiswa Ndumo, Jury Mpelho , Jury Mpelho , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Grahamstown f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135957 , vital:37318 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR027-08
  • Description: This is about a certain coloured man who suffered from such a permanent hangover (babalasi) that he couldn't eat. He got so thin that his trousers were flapping around him. Topical song with dance band.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Bawo nilele na? (Fathers, are you sleeping)

- Fingo and Mfengu women of Tuku Location, Hugh Tracey

Bayeza kusasa (They are coming tomorrow)

- Group of Xhosa women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of Xhosa women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Willowvale f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136122 , vital:37340 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR028-08
  • Description: Thsi was sung by a group of about 50 Gcaleka women all dressed in their traditional costumes with shawls and skirts made of "Kaffir sheeting" coloured with yellow or russet red ochre. Divination song with clapping,
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Benoni

- Olive Alexander, Russel Planga, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Olive Alexander , Russel Planga , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Grahamstown f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135992 , vital:37324 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR027-11
  • Description: The soloist was Olive Alexander, the girl says:- "My mother doesn't like me, my father only cares for the cattle he will get for my lobola, my brother never brings me any clothes. So I will go to Benoni and stay with the Sotho and Zulu, I'll make friends there and life will be much gayer." Topical song with dance band.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Ezimaqiya (A woman's headdress)

- Group of old Hlubi men, Hugh Tracey

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.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Hlakanyana (The wonderful child)

- Nolokoza, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Nolokoza , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Willowvale f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136091 , vital:37336 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR028-07
  • Description: At the begining of the story, a hen which had been walking about between and over the closely packed women in the hut (who were all sitting on the ground) rushed out again, cackling. The story teller can be heard cracking her fingers, snapping them,clapping her hands and so on. Her gestures were very expressive. The story is about a wonderful child. The very day he was born, he said: "Give me my trousers, I'm off to the mines." On the way he met a white man who was looking for 40 boys. "All right, my boss, here I am." - So he was given 40 sickles and in a trice he had reaped all the corn and came back for more work. He did otehr wonderful things and his employer then began to realise he would have to pay him 40 salaries! So he employer laid various traps for him, like digging a hole for him to fall into so that he should be buried alive, but he evaded them all. And in the end he was paid in full. - "a lump sum" and went off home with just reward. A story.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Hlungulwana (A small hawk)

- Group of Xhosa women and Notembile and Nopenrose, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of Xhosa women and Notembile and Nopenrose , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Willowvale f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136069 , vital:37334 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR028-04
  • Description: The words are simple and repetitive, the 'magic' of these quite songs for the Xhosa lies in thier repetitive and drowsy charm,conducing to dreaming, either waking or asleep. Self-delectative song with Hadi musical bow, unbraced, open and resonated.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Ikona into ezakwenzeka

- Group of 7 young men (Performers), Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey

Imfakadolo (Little bird)

- Iqela Labavumi bakwa Zwelitsha (Zwelitsha Choral Society), Hugh Tracey

Impazamo (A mistake)

- Irene Buyswa Ndumo, Raymond Sipo Botha, Andries Maesilo Moyake, Fezile Faete Mbelekane, Kenneth Phindile Mgole, Jury Mpelho, Hugh Tracey

Ingeji yam = My engagement ring

- Iqela Labavumi bakwa Zwelitsha (Zwelitsha Choral Society), Hugh Tracey

Ingeji yam = My engagement ring

- Iqela Labavumi bakwa Zwelitsha (Zwelitsha Choral Society), Hugh Tracey

Inkulu into ezakwenzeka

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

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.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Intlnganiso ya magqiha ye Isangoma (Proceddings at Herbalist's meeting)

- Led by Masamaigazi and Nowinile, Hugh Tracey

Intlnganiso ya magqiha ye Isangoma (Proceedings at Herbalist's meeting)

- Led by the 'President' L. S. Khontsiwe and men and woman herbalists, Hugh Tracey

Intsimbi ka Ntiskana (Ntsikana's bells and Ntsikana's song)

- Iqela Labavumi bakwa Zwelitsha (Zwelitsha Choral Society), Bokwe, S. T., Bekwe, J. K., Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Iqela Labavumi bakwa Zwelitsha (Zwelitsha Choral Society) , Bokwe, S. T. , Bekwe, J. K. , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Music--Religious aspects , Africa South Africa King Williams Town f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135727 , vital:37293 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR026-01
  • Description: Ntsikana was the first Christian convert of the Xhosa tribes. "The song was chanted by Ntsikana regularly at dawn of day, standing at his hut door, summoning the people to morning prayer. As people gathered they joined in the strains, adding different parts. Extracts taken from the songbook "Amaculo ase Lovedale.", published by the Lovedale Press.- It is notable that Ntsikana had never heard a church bell. The tune is of African origin. Religious descriptive chant and song.
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  • Date Issued: 1957
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