Ha-a, twanana
- Makanana, Daine Mutombeni, Shangaan women, Tracey, Hugh
- Authors: Makanana, Daine Mutombeni , 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/10962/187781 , vital:44696 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR193-08
- Description: The name of this singer Makanana means 'Jump for joy'. These Shangan or Tsonga people of the Transvaal are related to the Shangaans of Mozambique many of them having come up onto the highlands during the war of pacification between Gungunyana and the Portuguese at the turn of the century. "When we were still in love, in Johannesburg, it was fine." Love song
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
- Authors: Makanana, Daine Mutombeni , 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/10962/187781 , vital:44696 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR193-08
- Description: The name of this singer Makanana means 'Jump for joy'. These Shangan or Tsonga people of the Transvaal are related to the Shangaans of Mozambique many of them having come up onto the highlands during the war of pacification between Gungunyana and the Portuguese at the turn of the century. "When we were still in love, in Johannesburg, it was fine." Love song
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
Homolela ngwanaka
- Four Pedi women and a baby, Four Pedi women, Tracey, Hugh
- Authors: Four Pedi women and a baby , Four Pedi 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/10962/189265 , vital:44832 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR195-13
- Description: It is hard to decide whether lullabies such as this are meant to put the baby to sleep or merely to drown its crying with an even louder noise. "Keep my child. We shall go to Sabie. We shall eat bread, food for the whites. Keep quiet my child." (A different town is mentioned in each verse). Lullaby
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
- Authors: Four Pedi women and a baby , Four Pedi 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/10962/189265 , vital:44832 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR195-13
- Description: It is hard to decide whether lullabies such as this are meant to put the baby to sleep or merely to drown its crying with an even louder noise. "Keep my child. We shall go to Sabie. We shall eat bread, food for the whites. Keep quiet my child." (A different town is mentioned in each verse). Lullaby
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- 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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
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