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Ndithi khawuthiye nkwenkwe ndala (Please dance, big boy)

- Young men and boys, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Young men and 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/10962/150652 , vital:38993 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR060-11
  • Description: The roaring or grunting in this dance song is a sound peculiar to the Xhosa. The Luo and Giriyama of Kenya also do it and some of the East Coast Swahili, notably in their religious songs. It is possibly a vestigial remain of Arab influence acquired during the tribe's sojourn in East Africa some 500 years ago. Mbayizelo dance song, with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Ngamibonge Amakentani (Please praise the Kentani people)

- Thombi Fegetwai and Gcaleka boys and girls, Hugh Tracey

Ngo, Ngo (Knock, knock, it is 7 o'clock)

- Young girls and boys of Durban location, Hugh Tracey

Ngoma ya bantwana (Song for the children)

- Women of Kalana location, Hugh Tracey

Ngqika (A Xhosa Chief)

- Jury Mpelho, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: 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/10962/135900 , vital:37310 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR027-03
  • Description: The song is about the cattle of Ngqika, a famous Xhosa chief, and how beautiful they were. "We, the Africans of Ngqika, we pay our lobola in cattle. Our cattle are beautiful with well-shaped spreading horns, and we drive them like this, like this. (senjenje, senjenje) to the kraal of the girl's father." Town dance with small band including a piano, saxaphone, trumpet, guitar and drum.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Nkonkonko

- Young Gcaleka boys and girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Young 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/10962/151255 , vital:39044 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR063-13
  • Description: The words of the dance are apparently meanigless except for the title. When the young herd boys returned with their cattle, sheep and goats to the village they joined in the party and sang these two songs which are typical of the present day type of dance songs used in the district. Young people's dance song and Umtshongolo dance with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

No doli wami (The doll)

- 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/10962/136006 , vital:37326 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR027-12
  • Description: Same soloist. A certain man made love to a girl, in secret, after which she jilted him. So he told her that he would now have to tell the people that is was she who had agreed and accepted his love-making. Topical song with dance band.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

No talili

- Young men of Tuku's Location, Hugh Tracey

Nokala (The crab)

- Khotso and Mpondo men and women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Khotso and Mpondo men and women , 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/10962/136515 , vital:37386 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR031-09
  • Description: The women in this group all wore green cotton dresses and green head cloths. They had strands of beads round their necks worked in stripes of green, yellow, white and blue. Khotso said he had taken this colour scheme from the Vierkleur. The men, in addition to this, wore a lavish number of strings of "lucky beans" or seeds, of a pearl-grey colour. These are exclusively worn by the Izangoma. Divination song with clapping and 5 drums.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Nombindlela (A roadmaker)

- 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/10962/151246 , vital:39043 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR063-12
  • Description: The "raodmaker" refers to a man labouring on the local roads. During this song the 16 months old child on the back of one of the singers was clapping its small hands in time to the rhythms of the song which shows how soon small Africans begin to pick up their African music. Women's dance, with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Nongangela (All the young men from Timgqimqi's location are alike)

- Sam Tyutwana, Hugh Tracey

Nongelema Mufana Obetele (Nongelema, the best young man)

- Group of Xhosa men and women, Hugh Tracey

Nonkala (The crab)

- Jury Mpelho, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: 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/10962/135934 , vital:37314 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR027-06
  • Description: The crab, being a water animal, is this case, a river crab, is being addressed as a diviner. The Xhosa believe their ancestral spirits inhabit streams. Topical song with dance band including saxaphone, double bass, guitar and drum
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Nontsokolo

- Group of young Xhosa men and boys, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of young Xhosa men and boys , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Africa South Africa Kentani f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/150698 , vital:38998 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR060-16
  • Description: We were told that this group of Xhosa lads were from Christian homes. The tune is connected to the same dance for young boys and girls between the ages of about 12-17 years. It is a typical song the group of young people use on their way to the home where the party is to take place. The dance itself takes place in a hut. Mbayizelo dance song, with harmonica.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Nonyanya

- Group of married women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of married women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Africa South Africa Kentani f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/150012 , vital:38930 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR059-17
  • Description: A diviner arrived in person but declined to sing with the women who were all sitting around on the floor of the hut, about 80 of them. The married women were more soberly dressed than the young unmarried ones and wore their headclothes in the more usual Xhosa 'pile' of cloth on the head, producing a large loose turban-like effect. Diviner's song, with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Nyakumtyela egageni (You will eat it out of doors)

- Young Gcaleka boys and girls, Hugh Tracey

Nyakumtyela egageni (You will eat it out of doors)

- Young Gcaleka boys and girls, Hugh Tracey

O' Nonqayi ndoboqana

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

O, ama Jalimani (Oh, the Germans)

- Group of young Mpondo men and women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of young Mpondo men and women , 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/10962/136731 , vital:37412 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR033-09
  • Description: Most of the women were married, wearing the beaded, tubular headring of the Mpondo married women. One young girl wore a mass of bead choker necklaces in the favourite Mpondo colours, sky-blue and white. The married women wore their hair in a mass of long fine twists or plaits, and wore a number of bead necklaces. Party song for young people with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Olihomba (A well-dressed person)

- 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/10962/136715 , vital:37409 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR033-07
  • Description: The Mpondo women of this district wear their hair in bunches of fine waxed plaits on either side of their faces, with one thickish waxed plait straight down in the middle of the fore-head, and hanging below the nose or chin. Song for the Umngcutsho dance, with clapping.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957
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