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Nal' usindiso

- Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani, Tracey, Andrew T N

Sanana lwam

- Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani, Tracey, Andrew T N

Siwakhe ngothando

- Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani, Tracey, Andrew T N

Ubomi besikolo

- Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani, Tracey, Andrew T N

Whe mzhlawana

- Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani, Tracey, Andrew T N

Masithi Amen

- St Bedi's Church Choir, Composer not specified, Dargie, Dave

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

Hla unakwahamba (Who gave you that food?)

- Group of young Mpondo boys, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of young Mpondo boys , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Lusikisiki f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136569 , vital:37392 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR032-05
  • Description: The performers were all about 18 or thereabouts. This group wore red blankets with rows of white braid on the girls' skirts. The girls wore very attractive circlets of beads on the head, passing over the forehead and bead chin straps, also a head band passing over the top of the head and round the base of the skull. The sexes were divided dancing at right angles to each other and the girls kept up a shrill high descant. The men danced in a circle as tightly packed sardines. The main feature of the boys' costume were the immense number of strands of beads wound about the hips to a depth of 18 or more. The edges of the blankets were also beaded. The girls also wore three swathings of beads around the hips. 3 Gubura dances for young men.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Jomjom (A pot full of beer)

- 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/10962/136160 , vital:37344 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR028-12
  • Description: The singers also said:- "Gallop away quickly, horse of Sochongane." Whether from or to the party where the pot was full of beer, was not clear.- Sochongane was one of the men living nearby.- JOMJOM also means, they explained, the galloping of a horse. Drinking song with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1957
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