Thali ea ma tsoana (The lightening of the Chieftainess)
- 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/10962/151572 , vital:39143 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR064-12
- Description: This song is a work song for hoeing. Agricultural and domestic work song for grinding.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Umbala (Colour)
- 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/10962/150412 , vital:38973 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR060-03
- 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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957