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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

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

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.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Pelile Makoti (My love for you, Makoti, is finished)

- Citaumvano, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Citaumvano , 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/10962/136614 , vital:37397 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR032-11
  • Description: Makoti was his wife. From what he said, the singer was devoted to her and their song was not to be taken too literally. His capotasto was placed on the fifth fret of the guitar. Love song with guitar.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Puma endlini yam = Get out of my house

- Irene Buyiswa Ndumo, Jury Mpelho, Jury Mpelho, Hugh Tracey

Salime ugamadoda

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

Sanusi

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

Siyahamba (We are going)

- Midnight stars, Alfred Tafeni, Hugh Tracey

Themb'sie (Name of a girl)

- 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/10962/135925 , vital:37313 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR027-05
  • Description: "Themb'sie come, I have been calling you. Come in, Themb'sie, come in, I've been calling you. Topical song with dance band including saxaphone, double bass, guitar and drum.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Thula ndivile (Be quiet, I have heard)

- Midnight stars, Alfred Tafeni, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Midnight stars , Alfred Tafeni , 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/10962/135970 , vital:37321 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR027-09
  • Description: "We are here, we young men, and every one must come and listen, as we are here to give a lively time." Many of the words do not make sense, but are just put in to help out the rhythm. Town dance with dance band.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

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

Tsholoza

- Group of Xhosa/Gcaleka women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of Xhosa/Gcaleka 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/10962/136151 , vital:37343 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR028-11
  • Description: This song is sung, they said, by the women for the boys to dance at night. Women's dance for clapping at night iside the hut, with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Tula mtwana (Hush, baby)

- Group of Qwathi wome, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of Qwathi wome , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Xhosa , Lullabies, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Engcobo f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134936 , vital:37219 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0022-04
  • Description: Several mothers sitting in the hut with their babies took part in this lullaby.-The voice of one of the babies can be heard. The tune is said to be traditional to the whole country. Lullaby.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Tula mutwana

- Two elderly women (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

Ukugwiya

- Group of old Hlubi men, Hugh Tracey

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