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Salani mwana manani

Segoko mmawelele we!

Sheweni wa pumba

Shibudu. 7th Movement

Shibudu. 9th Movement

Shiwana Mpetasi

  • Authors: Mtungwa, Elias , 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/10962/189367 , vital:44841 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR195-15
  • Description: "Tu shalala" is the expression of delight when someone looks in through the door and sees a pot full of good food cookign and anticipates the meal. The singer of these two songs, with his bow, is well known in the district as an entertainer and beggar. He remarks the end of the second tune that he was too tired to go on. His Chitende bow is virtually the same as the Zulu Makweyana. Here in Pedi country it is played by men while in Zululand it is played only by women, and occasionally by young herd boys. Minstrel song with Chitende braced bow, resonated.
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  • Date Issued: 1963

Siavuma

  • Authors: Ndlovu, Nhongeni , 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/10962/188463 , vital:44756 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR194-11
  • Description: An add collection of old bones was picked up off the ground nearby to use for this sketch. The man taking the part of the diviner is a Shangaan man of the Gungunyana group many of whom cam from Mozambique to live among the Mapulana Pedi at the begining of the century. They still retain their Tsonga language but for many years both Pedi and Tsonga have become bilingual, understanding each others language without difficulty. Fortune telling sketch with bones
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  • Date Issued: 1963

Sibewu

  • Authors: Mapulana men and women (Madika initiated young men and 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/10962/188002 , vital:44716 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR194-02
  • Description: All the people moving anti-clockwise around the three drums. The opening of the Sibewa movement illustrates the method of starting a pipe dance and the difficulty they experience in the initial fitting in of the various pipe parts. Once the third player came in, in between the other two, the music came alive and all joined in with a will. "Up there where we were born, the mealies are finished so we will eat wheat. Up there where we carry baskets the mealies are finished and we will eat corn." Initiation song and pipe dance, with 4 metal pipes and 3 drums Moropa o muyana and Moropa o mkula, 1 bushbuck horn and 1 kudu horn
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  • Date Issued: 1963

Tabarireve woende

Tata wawu osi wana

The Ngodo of Regulo Mavila

Title 1. Mogobo Title 2. Segata mosabani

  • Authors: Mapulana men and 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/10962/188011 , vital:44717 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR194-03
  • Description: The change over from Mogobo to Segata mosabani takes place at approximately 2m 19s from the start of the dance. The impression of general jollification, noise making, shouts and whistles is well caught in this recording. The Mapulana clan of the Pedi consider themselves a distinctive group and have occupied the territories below the Drankensburg Mountain, in the vicinity of Bushbuck Ridge for several generations. A few people of Tsonga (Shangaan) orign have settled among them. "Come and dance on the sand. We dance on the sand with praises." Two initiation dances with beaten sticks, Bushbuck horn (-11.01-), Kudu horn (-11.01-), 3 drums (-14.01101-) and whistle
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  • Date Issued: 1963

Tlisa kgopa

Tsa lla molapong

  • Authors: Mashego, Barney (Chief) , 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/10962/188704 , vital:44778 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR195-04
  • Description: This district is plagued, they say, by men who come home from employment eleswhere, eat the food of their relatives until it is all finished without doing a stroke of work to help, and then disappear from pastures new, leaving their families starving. The fourth woman stood by and added cries of encouragement. "They cry, they cry at the river. They hear legaletlwa (a tree)." The thorn tree has twisted boughs which are inclined to rub against each other amd emit occassional creaking sounds. Pounding song with mortar and three pestles
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  • Date Issued: 1963

Tsepe mpolaye

Tu shalala

  • Authors: Mtungwa, Elias , 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/10962/189362 , vital:44840 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR195-14
  • Description: "Tu shalala" is the expression of delight when someone looks in through the door and sees a pot full of good food cookign and anticipates the meal. The singer of these two songs, with his bow, is well known in the district as an entertainer and beggar. He remarks the end of the second tune that he was too tired to go on. His Chitende bow is virtually the same as the Zulu Makweyana. Here in Pedi country it is played by men while in Zululand it is played only by women, and occasionally by young herd boys. Minstrel song with Chitende braced bow, resonated.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1963

Tune I on Chibvelani Friction Bow

Tune II on Chibvelani Friction Bow

Wangu mwama wome

Wi-wi-wi-wi mirongo

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