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Folk music--South Africa

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Bidera

- Mudzanani, Baranganani, Tracey, Hugh

Authors: Mudzanani, Baranganani , Tracey, Hugh
Date: 1959
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 Sibasa f-sa
Language: Venda , Tsonga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/187714 , vital:44689 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR193-03
Description: "To eat beef is to eat blood, I will see the daylight at Sibasa. Matasalutombo and Mwambale. Do not come with Mashawi (souls). I will see the daylight at Sibasa. And climb the trees at Chibasa. To eat beef is to eat blood. Self delectative song, with Mbira - 24 notes
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Date Issued: 1959

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Marambeli waTiwafuni

- Mudzanani, Baranganani, Tracey, Hugh

Authors: Mudzanani, Baranganani , Tracey, Hugh
Date: 1959
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 Sibasa f-sa
Language: Venda , Tsonga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/187743 , vital:44692 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR193-05
Description: The prefixes Vho-X, Vho-Y refer to married folk. Marambele and Thirhafuni are either two young folk, male and female respectively. I doubt if they are children of John and Vele. Vele is usually a woman's name. John! John and Vele, Marambele and Thirhafuni. And Thirhafuni in the hut. What are they doing inside? Jona and Vele have eloped, At Tsilate. John (at) Tshilate. I saw Marambele and Vele. Inside the hut. What are they doing inside? Chigombera dance for girls with Mbira - 24 notes
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Date Issued: 1959

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Mohodo

- Mudzanani, Baranganani, 2 friends, Tracey, Hugh

Authors: Mudzanani, Baranganani , 2 friends , Tracey, Hugh
Date: 1959
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 Sibasa f-sa
Language: Venda , Tsonga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/187752 , vital:44693 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR193-06
Description: "Wamalidha confuses me, An order of ten shillings! We are crying about it. Womalichi adds to their worries by asking for credit for ten shillings when no one has any such money to play with. There are two names among the Venda for this instrument, the Mbira or the Mbira Deza. (Mbira Mutondo is the Venda Xylophone). Drinking song with Mbira, 23 notes
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Date Issued: 1959

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Pungo yoya

- Mudzanani, Baranganani, Tracey, Hugh

Authors: Mudzanani, Baranganani , Tracey, Hugh
Date: 1959
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 Sibasa f-sa
Language: Venda , Tsonga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/187761 , vital:44694 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR193-07
Description: "How did the chief fall down? How did he fall Chief Mbegenihe? How are the girls dancing. Because there are no boys there? The boys are away at work. The best singer of them is in the country. I am happy when I am at Duthuni. When I feel hungry I cry." There are two names among the Venda for this instrument, the Mbira Deza. (Mbira Mutondo is the Venda xylophone). Drinking songs with Mbira, 24 notes.
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Date Issued: 1959

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"Lefatse le tletse meea e mebe." (Take this letter home.)

- Two diviners (Izangoma) and a group of pupils (Performers), Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Two diviners (Izangoma) and a group of pupils (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Sotho , Divination , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-za
Language: Southern Sotho
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134259 , vital:37108 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR018-12
Description: This song is sung when the initiates are coming back from their three months' initiation period in the mountains.
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Date Issued: 1957

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"Lefatse le tletse meea e mebe." (The country is full of evil spirits)

- Two diviners (Izangoma) and a group of pupils (Performers), Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Two diviners (Izangoma) and a group of pupils (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Sotho , Divination , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-za
Language: Southern Sotho
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134268 , vital:37109 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR018-12
Description: The Izangoma were supposed to be finding and throwing a "spirit" out of someone who had been bewitched. At the end of the recording, one member of the audience remarked:- "There is no tokolosh (imp) here." Much laughter. The words were partly in Zulu, although the perfomers were actually Sotho.
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Date Issued: 1957

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"Litsebe nka lengolo y ec hae." (Take this letter home)

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

Authors: Group of Sotho men (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Sotho , Circumcision , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-za
Language: Southern Sotho
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134277 , vital:37111 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR018-13
Description: This song is sung when the initiates are coming back from their three month's initiation period in the mountains.
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Date Issued: 1957

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Abafazi bemka (The women are leaving-they have already gone)

- 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/10962/136669 , vital:37403 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR033-02
Description: This charming song was evidently a great favourite and every one began to sway to the lilt of it. The men then demanded why they couldn't sing too--why just the women. This song is more compicated than at first appears and in some ways is reminiscent of a Hebridean song. Part song.
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Date Issued: 1957

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Abafazi pandle (Women should go outside the hut)

- Group of Gcaleka men and women, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Group of Gcaleka 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 Idutywa f-sa
Language: Xhosa
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/150955 , vital:39021 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR062-04
Description: Drinking parties in this region are usually held inside the huts as there is plenty of wind over the open downs, especially near the sea. The song calls on the women to leave the hut to the men, as they pass the beer around and sing their drinking songs. Drinking song with clapping.
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Date Issued: 1957

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Abatandani ngumasingili

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

Authors: Nontwintwi and Annie Macholweni (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Kingwilliamstown f-za
Language: Xhosa
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133632 , vital:36998 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR013-10
Description: Self-delactative song with Hadi bow, unbraced, open string and resonated
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Ahe likalakati

- Group of Sotho women, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Group of Sotho 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/10962/151581 , vital:39144 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR064-13
Description: The four leading women sang this song on their knees, and the principal singer also mimed the torso, hip and arm movements of the dance whilst she sang. Mokihibo dance for women (knee dance) with clapping.
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Date Issued: 1957

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Amapoyisa ahlal' esangweni

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

Authors: Group of Baca Men (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Zulu , Africa South Africa Mahlabatini f-za
Language: Zulu
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133452 , vital:36978 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR012-07
Description: Wedding song with sticks
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Date Issued: 1957

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Amaseyibokwe athengwa ngemali eninzi (For a certain type of socks you pay dearly)

- Gcaleka boys and girls, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Gcaleka boys 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/10962/151135 , vital:39033 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR063-07
Description: The harmonica or mouth organ is a cheap and useful instrument to the Gcaleka who manage to produce a number of very simple repetitive tunes for accompanying their dances by this means. Mtstosho dance song, with harmonica.
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Date Issued: 1957

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Api amatole makw edini (Hullo, you boys, where are the calves?)

- John Lila, Hugh Tracey

Authors: John Lila , 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/10962/136638 , vital:37400 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR032-14
Description: The verse is about some herdboys and what they did. Old verse.
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Date Issued: 1957

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Asiyoyetha, lengoma yeye Badala (This song is not ours, it is Badala's)

- Young girls and boys of Durban location, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Young girls and boys of Durban 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/10962/149208 , vital:38815 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR059-07
Description: Circumcision song
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Date Issued: 1957

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Aunakuva unafoko upendukile (Can't you understand your mother has changed her mind)

- 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/10962/136688 , vital:37405 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR033-04
Description: The leader stood up and danced during the song. Women's party song with clapping and stamping.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Badazi Bomthandazo (Christian women)

- Young boys, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Young boys , 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/10962/150668 , vital:38995 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR060-13
Description: This Mbayizelo or Impezu dance is not performed for any special occasion but just for fun. One young boy plays the repeated melody or the mouth organ, while the others do a kind of prancing dance while making a rhythmic roaring noise in their throats. Mbayizelo dance song, with mouth organ (harmonica).
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Date Issued: 1957

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Bam! Mfana kabanina undenzenzima (Bam! Whose son has made me pregnant)

- 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 Willowvale f-sa
Language: Xhosa
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151237 , vital:39042 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR063-11
Description: This song, sung without a trace of shyness, rather indicated a social state of affairs which was an accepted fact. It was not possible to obtain the true history behind the words and quite likely they contain an allusion of some local romance rather than to a local tragedy. Women's dance, with clapping.
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Date Issued: 1957

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Bathi abafana ndisandindazana ((Young men call me a beauty)

- 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/10962/150965 , vital:39023 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR062-06
Description: The whole crowd of about 60 women and girls swayed from foot to foot as they sang with great enthusiasm.It is clearly a well known and much loved tune in this region. Drinking song with clapping.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Bayathetha abantwana ndinendaba (Children are speaking because I have news)

- Gcaleka boys and girls, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Gcaleka boys 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/10962/151224 , vital:39041 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR063-10
Description: The girl playing this mouth bow whistles out of the side of her mouth as well as resonating the notes in the usual manner. She used the open string and a stopped note, stopping it with her thumbnail and first finger. The use of this indigenious instrument and its style of music explains the ease with which Gcaleka people take to the small concertina. The harmonies produced in the mouth being on the true harmonic series makes the transition to the concertina a simple matter for simple tunes. Notes of the bow, 292 and 260. Mtshotsho dance for boys and girls with Ikinki mouth resonated musical bow.
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Date Issued: 1957

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