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Abafazi bemka

- Group of young Mpondo married women, Composer unknown, Tracey, Hugh

Authors: Group of young Mpondo married women , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
Date: 1957-05-24
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Tabankulu f-sa
Language: Xhosa
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/228532 , vital:49568 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT428-L49 , Research no. L1V5
Description: A folk song lamenting the fact that the women are leaving.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957-05-24

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Abafazi bemka (The women are leaving-they have already gone)

- 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/10962/136669 , vital:37403 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR033-02
Description: This charming song was evidently a great favourite and every one began to sway to the lilt of it. The men then demanded why they couldn't sing too--why just the women. This song is more compicated than at first appears and in some ways is reminiscent of a Hebridean song. Part song.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Api amatole makw edini (Hullo, you boys, where are the calves?)

- John Lila, Hugh Tracey

Authors: John Lila , 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/10962/136638 , vital:37400 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR032-14
Description: The verse is about some herdboys and what they did. Old verse.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Api amatole makwedini

- Lila, John, Composer unknown, Tracey, Hugh

Authors: Lila, John , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
Date: 1957-05-23
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Tabankulu f-sa
Language: Xhosa
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/228420 , vital:49556 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT427-L48 , Research no. L1U7
Description: A folk song asking young boys where the calves are.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957-05-23

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Aunakuva unafoko upendukile (Can't you understand your mother has changed her mind)

- 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/10962/136688 , vital:37405 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR033-04
Description: The leader stood up and danced during the song. Women's party song with clapping and stamping.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Aunakuva unyoko upendukile

- Group of young Mpondo married women, Composer unknown, Tracey, Hugh

Authors: Group of young Mpondo married women , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
Date: 1957-05-24
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Tabankulu f-sa
Language: Xhosa
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/228575 , vital:49573 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT429-L50 , Research no. L1V8
Description: A folk song, accompanied by clapping and stamping, about a mother who has changed her mind.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957-05-24

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Ibali

- Three Mpondo children, Composer unknown, Tracey, Hugh

Authors: Three Mpondo children , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
Date: 1957-05-24
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Tabankulu f-sa
Language: Xhosa
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/228465 , vital:49561 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT427-L48 , Research no. L1V1b
Description: A Children's verse in praise of Chief Dalindyebo.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957-05-24

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Ibhaca litwele ibaketi

- Group of Mpondo women, Composer unknown, Tracey, Hugh

Authors: Group of Mpondo women , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
Date: 1957-05-23
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Tabankulu f-sa
Language: Xhosa
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/228411 , vital:49555 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT427-L48 , Research no. L1U6
Description: A folk song about a Baca carrying a bucket sung by young Mpondo men.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957-05-23

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Ihobe liyataka

- Group of young Mpondo married women, Composer unknown, Tracey, Hugh

Authors: Group of young Mpondo married women , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
Date: 1957-05-24
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Tabankulu f-sa
Language: Xhosa
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/228509 , vital:49566 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT428-L49 , Research no. L1V4
Description: A folk song, accompanied by clapping, asking a dove not to run away or hop about.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957-05-24

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IIphi ingubo yam? Isehla thini

- Group of Mpondo women, Composer unknown, Tracey, Hugh

Authors: Group of Mpondo women , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
Date: 1957-05-23
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Tabankulu f-sa
Language: Xhosa
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/228383 , vital:49552 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT426-L47 , Research no. L1U3
Description: A girls' initiation song asking where someones blanket is and hearing that it is in the forest..
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957-05-23

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Intetho ye Inkosi

- Tantsi, Madlanga, Composer unknown, Tracey, Hugh

Authors: Tantsi, Madlanga , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
Date: 1957-05-23
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Tabankulu f-sa
Language: Xhosa
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/228392 , vital:49553 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT426-L47 , Research no. L1U4
Description: The Chief's speech to the Mpondo people.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957-05-23

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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.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Intombi zipelile (The girls are finished)

- Group of young Mpondo men and girls, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Group of young Mpondo men and girls , 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/10962/136362 , vital:37368 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR030-02
Description: The young men were mostly wearing pale blue blankets and carrying sticks; the girls were beautifully beaded. They wore their hair in many fine plaits hanging on either side of the face. Over this was worn the tubular bead headring or headband, (if the girl was unmarried) mostly in pale blue and white beads, many strands of sky blue and white beads wound about their necks to form choker collars. Song for Indlam' dance, with clapping of sticks.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Intombi zipelile (The girls are finished)

- Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Composer not specified , 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/10962/136353 , vital:37367 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR030-02
Description: Song for Indlam' dance, with clapping of sticks.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Intombi ziphelile

- Group of Mpondo men and girls, Composer unknown, Tracey, Hugh

Authors: Group of Mpondo men and girls , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
Date: 1957-05-23
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Tabankulu f-sa
Language: Xhosa
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/228374 , vital:49551 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT425-L46 , Research no. L1U2
Description: An indigenous song about the girls being finished.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957-05-23

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Intsizwa zambango bekinduka pantsi

- Group of Mpondo men, Composer unknown, Tracey, Hugh

Authors: Group of Mpondo men , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
Date: 1957-05-24
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Tabankulu f-sa
Language: Xhosa
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/228537 , vital:49569 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT428-L49 , Research no. L1V6
Description: A folk song asking quarelling youths to put down their sticks.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957-05-24

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Intsizwa zombango bekinduka pantsi (Quarrelling youths, put down your sticks)

- Group of Mpondo men, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Group of Mpondo men , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Folk music , Africa South Africa Tabankulu f-sa
Language: Xhosa
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/150841 , vital:39011 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR061-10
Description: The group started off during the rehasal by singing: "We won't be beaten by women." This was received by much raillery and laughter on the part of the women. Umhogo old fighting song.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Ithaca litwele ibaketi (A Baca is carrying a bucket)

- Group of young Mpondo men, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Group of young Mpondo men , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Folk music , Africa South Africa Tabankulu f-sa
Language: Xhosa
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/150861 , vital:39013 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR061-12
Description: The singers sang this crouching down on the ground. Song sung for the Indlamu dance, with clapping of sticks.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Izibongo Dalindyebo

- Group of Mpondo women, Composer unknown, Tracey, Hugh

Authors: Group of Mpondo women , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
Date: 1957-05-24
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Tabankulu f-sa
Language: Xhosa
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/228444 , vital:49559 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT427-L48 , Research no. L1V1a
Description: A praise song for Chief Dalindyebo sung by three Mpondo children.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957-05-24

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Izibongo dalindyebo (Izibongo for Chief Dalindyebo)

- Three Mpondo Children, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Three Mpondo Children , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Tembu (African people) , Field recordings , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Tabankulu f-sa
Language: Xhosa
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139616 , vital:37757 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR050-02
Description: Amongst other things they say: "You, Chief, are like a free woman, (a courtesan) meaning "You are beautifully dressed." "I want a beast with turned down horns." The children shrugged their shoulders down, left and right alternately to imitate the horns." Praises
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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