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Pikoko

- Group of Sotho women (Perfomers), Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey

Sake tlo bone sekate (Sake, come and see the damage done on the lands)

- Group of Sotho women, Hugh Tracey

Salime ugamadoda

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

Sanusi

- Nkenkese Mgwejo (Performer), N. Mgwejo (Composer), Hugh Tracey

Shiya bantwana nosela ingavin (You leave the children alone whilst you go and drink 'gavin'

- Nomaswiti Citaumvano and Uvakutsiwo, Hugh Tracey

Sitimela ga puma e Rhodesia (The train comes from Rhodesia)

- Young men and boys, Hugh Tracey

Tenshin (Attention)

- Sotho men and women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Sotho men and 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/10962/151533 , vital:39139 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR064-09
  • Description: "We stand at attention whenever we see him." Meaning we respect the Chief and salute him respectfully whenever we see him. The old lady, leading the song was the mother-in-law of the Chief and therefore was not allowed to mention her son-in-law's name, according to the 'Hlonipa' custom by which a woman must speak in synonyms of her husband and his family. Agricultural and domestic work song for hoeing.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Thali ea ma tsoana (The lightening of the Chieftainess)

- Sotho men and women, Hugh Tracey

Tikolosh (The imp)

- Group of young Mpondo girls and boys, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of young Mpondo girls and 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/10962/136578 , vital:37393 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR032-06
  • Description: This was performed by the same group of boys and girls as the previous item. The swaying bobbing movement of the dance accentuated by a double stamp on each foot alternately. All the boys carried 2 sticks. The words of the chorus were: "Tikolosh has a wife." Gubura dance for young people.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Tsa eja setsi

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

  • Authors: Group of Sotho men and small Sotho boys (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Sotho , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-za
  • Language: Southern Sotho
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134196 , vital:37098 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR018-05
  • Description: The spirited re-enaction of a mouse-hunt was performed by a group of middle-aged Sotho men, who had all gone mouse-hunting in their youth as herdboys. One sat on the ground, stabbing at imaginery mice, whilst the others encouraged him with shouts and cries-indicating in which direction the mouse had gone. It got away.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Tshikona

- Eleven Venda men, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Eleven Venda men , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1957
  • 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/10962/187674 , vital:44685 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR193-01
  • Description: The drum was beaten by two men, each with one wooden beater. Each player holds one end-blown pipe and adds his single note to the ensemble as with bell ringers. They dance around the drums in an anti-clockwise circle, performing steps in unison changing the routine with different with different movements of the dance. Scale:- 632, 520, 488, 432, 380, 348, 316, 280, 248, 228, 216. Instrumental tune, pipe ensemble, heptatonic with Chikona pipe ensemble and 1 single-headed, pegged drums, closed with two wooden beaters (-14.02103-)
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Tsina (Thresh)

- Sotho men and women, Hugh Tracey

Tula moana me (Hush, mother's child)

- Sotho men and women, Hugh Tracey

Tula mutwana

- Two elderly women (Performers), Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey

Tula Tula

- Iris Mjekula, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Iris Mjekula , 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/10962/149458 , vital:38854 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR059-12
  • Description: The singer (believed to be a coloured woman) changed the tune to a European one half way through.Her baby co-operated well. This tune was sung by a woman in traditional costume... The same baby, held in its mother's arms, was too charmed by the song to cry, so had to be tickled and patted by its mother into co-operation. Lullaby.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Tula Tula (Hush, hush)

- Young girls and boys of Durban location, Hugh Tracey

U Mamtolo

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

U'tengisa nge misopu (You are selling the beadwork)

- Group of Mpondo men and girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of Mpondo men and girls , 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/10962/136775 , vital:37419 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR033-13
  • Description: One of the young girls added the deep guttural rhythmic sounds peculiar to Xhosa singing. The singers were each of them singing into a slightly vibrating cupped hand. They were all lying on their stomachs on the grass wrapped in their blankets and looking like basking seals. Dance song for young people.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Ubenga lahlinkomo (He lost the cattle)

- Group of Mpondo men and 3 girls, Hugh Tracey

Ukubula (To thrash out the affair)

- Group of Mpondo men and women led by Khotso, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of Mpondo men and women led by Khotso , 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/10962/136524 , vital:37387 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR031-10
  • Description: This was an impromptu sketch of a supposed divination, by Khotso and 2 women. It was a sprited performance of an old time custom. "We didn't know we were going to be found out." says one of the women. One question was: "Whose baboon is this?" "You had better clap your hands, he says to the people. I see them all, I'm going to catch you all. You'd better agree." The group chorused: "Kill the witches. kill the witches." He went on: "Look out, you witches and behave yourselves." He ends up saying to the Chief: "All right, they've all agreed." The witches were accused of having snakes, baboons, "tikoloshes" (gnomes)- everything. "Kali shaya" - "Speak, speak." "Siya vuma" - "We agree-we agree." "Woman, is this your snake?" "Yes, it is", etc., etc. Divibation sketch with clapping and drums.
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  • Date Issued: 1957
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