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Ikona into ezakwenzeka

- Group of 7 young men (Performers), Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey

Ikositina (The Concertina)

- Group of young Xhosa girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of young Xhosa girls , 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/10962/150466 , vital:38979 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR060-09
  • Description: The girls who sang this song belonged to a group in the community half way between the sophisticated christians who have been to school and broken away from their background, and the so-called "Red blanket people", those who retain their African religion and customs including the red ochre coloured blankets, cosmetics and beads. They have been to school for a short while, wear European style clothes as far as possible and while falling short of the standards of the better educated consider themselves above and apart from the 'reds' who although 'un-schooled' are elegant in their traditional dress and beadwork. Party song with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Imfakadolo

- Iqela Labavumi bakwa Zwelithsa, Zwelitsha choral society, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Imfakadolo (Little bird)

- Iqela Labavumi bakwa Zwelitsha (Zwelitsha Choral Society), Hugh Tracey

Impazamo (A mistake)

- Irene Buyswa Ndumo, Raymond Sipo Botha, Andries Maesilo Moyake, Fezile Faete Mbelekane, Kenneth Phindile Mgole, Jury Mpelho, Hugh Tracey

Inakiya Isele

- Group of Xhosa men and women, Hugh Tracey

Indodemnyama (The dark man)

- Group of young Xhosa men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of young Xhosa men , 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/10962/150403 , vital:38972 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR060-02
  • Description: This group of "Amakwenkwe" (young unitiated men) all wrapped in red blankets, carrying sticks and wearing bead leggings, sang very well with gravity and intersity. They were all under 18 years of age. In the interval between the songs, they went off to fetch their sticks and struck them together during the song to mark the rhythm. Three group fighting song, with sticks and whistles.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Ingeji yam

- Iqela Labavumi bakwa Zwelithsa, Zwelitsha choral society, composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Ingeji yam (My engagement ring)

- Iqela Labavumi bakwa Zwelitsha (Zwelitsha Choral Society), Hugh Tracey

Ingeji yam (My engagement ring)

- Iqela Labavumi bakwa Zwelitsha (Zwelitsha Choral Society), Hugh Tracey

Ingoboyama boke (Two children must sleep under 1 goat skin)

- Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Xhosa , Herbalists , Africa South Africa Lusikisiki f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134965 , vital:37222 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0022-06
  • Description: These recordings were made at the "Great Place", of Chief Botha, Paramount Chief of the Mpondo. This large group of Izangoma followers both men and women, was composed of a mixture of Sotho and Mpondo, led by Khotso Sethuntsa. Chief Botha Marzolwandle Sigcau Paku is his full name. "The Great Place" is the name given throughout the Xhosa territories to the chief's headquarters. Khotso-Sethuntsa, name of the chief Sangoma, a man who comes from Kokstad and is a Sotho himself. He is a notable character, reputed to be extremely wealthy, and has much influence in the neighbourhood. Divination song sung at night, with clapping and 5 drums
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Injeke, injeke, he (Like this, like this)

- Group of young Mpondo boys, Hugh Tracey

Inkosi ya Mponda

- Women of Kalana location, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Women of Kalana location , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Africa South Africa King Williams Town f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/149476 , vital:38856 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR059-14
  • 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

Inkulu into ezakwenzeka

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

Inkulu into ezakwenzeka

- Nontwintwi, performer not specified, composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Inkuntse

- Group of young boys and girls, Hugh Tracey

Intetho ye Inkosi

- Paramount Chief of the Mpondo, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Paramount Chief of the Mpondo , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Speeches, addresses, etc., African , Africa South Africa Lusikisiki f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136416 , vital:37374 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR031-01
  • Description: There was singing going on in the distance from a group of young Mpondo men at the time. The tapping of the drums and clapping at parts of the Chief's speech indicate applause. Speech by cheif Botha Marzolwandle Sigcau Faku.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Intetho ye Inkosi

- Chief Madlanya Tantsi, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Chief Madlanya Tantsi , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Speeches, addresses, etc., African , Africa South Africa Tabankulu f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136344 , vital:37364 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR030-01
  • Description: This Chief Madlanya Tantsi was a man of great personality and charm. His "Great Place" was situated in a cup of the hills not far from Tabankulu. The speech was delivered to a gathering of his people men and women, seated on the short grass, with their ponies grazing peacefully in the background and the hot afternoon sunshine shining on the wide expanse of hills and grassy slopes beyond. In the course of the speech he made great play with his stick, which was covered with a leopard's tail.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Intlanganiso ya magqiha ye Izangoma (Herbalists' meeting

- Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Herbalists , Africa South Africa Umtata f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134821 , vital:37209 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0022-01
  • Description: Extracts from the proceedings at the first conference of Izangoma Diviners, to be held in Umtata, Transkei. The speech and songs were entirely impromptu and demonstrate the type of speech employed by such herbalists and their supporting singers or assistants. Herbalists' meeting, with songs, speech, with clapping, stamping and 1 bass drum.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Intlanganiso ya magqika ye Izangoma (Herbalist's meeting)

- Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Xhosa , Herbalists , Africa South Africa Umtata f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134945 , vital:37220 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0022-05
  • Description: Led by Dangazela and by Nowinjile Sincabo his wife. Dangazela is the son of Chief Bota the paramount chief of Lusikisiki. This recording demonstrates the procedure adopted by herbalists and diviners at their meetings and healing ceremonies.- the music and speeches helping to create an atmosphere of serious contemplation and thereby assisting in the cure of the patient. Proceedings for herbalists, with songs and speech, with clapping, stamping and 1 bass drum.
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  • Date Issued: 1957
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