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Lalange ngudokwa (The diviners' children sleep on a goat's skin)

- Group of Xhosa women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of Xhosa 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/10962/136127 , vital:37341 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR028-09
  • Description: This was sung by a group of about 50 Gcaleka women all dressed in their traditional costumes with shawls and skirts made of "Kaffir sheeting" coloured with yellow or russet red ochre. Divination song with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Intsimbi ka Ntiskana (Ntsikana's bells and Ntsikana's song)

- Iqela Labavumi bakwa Zwelitsha (Zwelitsha Choral Society), Bokwe, S. T., Bekwe, J. K., Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Iqela Labavumi bakwa Zwelitsha (Zwelitsha Choral Society) , Bokwe, S. T. , Bekwe, J. K. , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Music--Religious aspects , Africa South Africa King Williams Town f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135727 , vital:37293 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR026-01
  • Description: Ntsikana was the first Christian convert of the Xhosa tribes. "The song was chanted by Ntsikana regularly at dawn of day, standing at his hut door, summoning the people to morning prayer. As people gathered they joined in the strains, adding different parts. Extracts taken from the songbook "Amaculo ase Lovedale.", published by the Lovedale Press.- It is notable that Ntsikana had never heard a church bell. The tune is of African origin. Religious descriptive chant and song.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Woho naizhi

- Group of old Hlubi men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of old Hlubi men , 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 Matatiele f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139678 , vital:37767 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR050-04
  • Description: Some very spirited solo performances were put up by individuals who dashed out of a line to take up a new song, each replacing the last man. The first song indicated that the hero of the song had a case to bring. The second, that he should be caught. The third one that he should be held, and so on. Each of the many singers and dancers liked to come out into the ring, shout his individual cries and introduce his own song. The occassional interpolation of a horn was made by blowing through an pld rubber bulb type motor-cycle horn. Mgibo pre-initiation dance with sticks.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Nodwa

- Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani, Tracey, Andrew T N

Title not specified

- Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani, Tracey, Andrew T N

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

- Group of young Mpondo boys, Hugh Tracey

Kwanukimpi (The smell of war)

- Group of elder Mpondo men and women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of elder Mpondo men and 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/10962/136398 , vital:37372 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR030-06
  • Description: The Mpondo groups of dancers move in a very tightly packed formation, holding their sticks aloft in the right hand. The men in the front rank performed Badumisa, or praise of the chief, advancing up to him and performing great leaps. Umrobo old fighting songs.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Siyahamba (We are going)

- Midnight stars, Alfred Tafeni, Hugh Tracey

Irobhane

- Mbizweni, Nowayilethi, Lungisa, Nofirsti, Composer Not Specified, Dargie, Dave, Kape, Maggie

Siyakholwa

- Performer not specified, Composer Not Specified, Dargie, Dave

Ithande iNkosi uThixo wakho ngenhliziyo yakho yonke

- Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani, Tracey, Andrew T N

Imali yami nothando lwami

- Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani, Tracey, Andrew T N

Asazi kambe (We don't know what will happen)

- Men of Tuku's of Tuku Location, Hugh Tracey

Umfazi uyabalega (His wife has run away)

- 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/10962/136587 , vital:37394 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR032-07
  • Description: Clapping accampanied by a rapping on the drums greeted Chief Botha whenever he appeared. Each dance song began with the boys kneeling, singing each into his cupped hand, bobbing and swaying to the rhythm whilst the girls stood nearby, exactly like in the previous item. At a given signal the boys rose and went on dancing standing up. The word "Gubura" is pronounced "GHUBUKHA" (Kh as in loch). The peculiar leopard like snarl, or cough or grunt which the Xhosa make in their throats is noticeable throughout these songs. They are very fond of making it out of context, just as an exclamation. Gubura dance for young people.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Umanyano ngamandla

- Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani, Tracey, Andrew T N

Inxanxadi

- Mbizweni, Nowayilethi, Lungisa, Nofirsti, Scherk, Marwiga, Sister, Composer Not Specified, Dargie, Dave, Kape, Maggie

We umzalwane

- Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani, Tracey, Andrew T N

Zonke izinto phezu komhlaba ziyaphela

- Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani, Tracey, Andrew T N

She is my girl

- Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani, Tracey, Andrew T N

Hamba bhekile

- Dywili, Nofinishi, Composer Not Specified, Dargie, Dave

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