"Lefatse le tletse meea e mebe." (Take this letter home.)
- Authors: Two diviners (Izangoma) and a group of pupils (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Sotho , Divination , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-za
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134259 , vital:37108 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR018-12
- Description: This song is sung when the initiates are coming back from their three months' initiation period in the mountains.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
"Lefatse le tletse meea e mebe." (The country is full of evil spirits)
- Authors: Two diviners (Izangoma) and a group of pupils (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Sotho , Divination , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-za
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134268 , vital:37109 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR018-12
- Description: The Izangoma were supposed to be finding and throwing a "spirit" out of someone who had been bewitched. At the end of the recording, one member of the audience remarked:- "There is no tokolosh (imp) here." Much laughter. The words were partly in Zulu, although the perfomers were actually Sotho.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
"Litsebe nka lengolo y ec hae." (Take this letter home)
- Authors: Group of Sotho men (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Sotho , Circumcision , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-za
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134277 , vital:37111 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR018-13
- Description: This song is sung when the initiates are coming back from their three month's initiation period in the mountains.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Abafazi bemka (The women are leaving-they have already gone)
- 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
Abafazi pandle (Women should go outside the hut)
- Authors: Group of Gcaleka men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Folk music , Africa South Africa Idutywa f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/150955 , vital:39021 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR062-04
- Description: Drinking parties in this region are usually held inside the huts as there is plenty of wind over the open downs, especially near the sea. The song calls on the women to leave the hut to the men, as they pass the beer around and sing their drinking songs. Drinking song with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Abatandani ngumasingili
- Authors: Nontwintwi and Annie Macholweni (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Kingwilliamstown f-za
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133632 , vital:36998 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR013-10
- Description: Self-delactative song with Hadi bow, unbraced, open string and resonated
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Adiyo jaxa kxaja nkwe
- Authors: Ncha, Frank , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1960
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Pedi (African people) , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Leydsdorp f-sa
- Language: Pedi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/189417 , vital:44845 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR195-19
- Description: "If you stone a leopard, it will kill you. Who are we going to dance with? There is nobody who can stone a leopard, Everybody says so." Chorus: "Adiyo." Dance song with autoharp, 2 small rubber headed drums and a rattle
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1960
Adya moreyana
- Authors: Group of 8 Pedi women and 2 men , Four Pedi women , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Pedi (African people) , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Bushbuck Ridge f-sa
- Language: Pedi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/189213 , vital:44827 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR195-10
- Description: They could not explain the significance of this statement and whether the drink or the song might have killed a weaker man! "A piglet lives on mud. Sing that I may dance. Thabakgolo is a great chief. He lived through this song." Drinking song with 2 drums and a rattle
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
Ahe likalakati
- Authors: Group of Sotho 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/10962/151581 , vital:39144 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR064-13
- Description: The four leading women sang this song on their knees, and the principal singer also mimed the torso, hip and arm movements of the dance whilst she sang. Mokihibo dance for women (knee dance) with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Akasa ngi baleli
- Authors: One of the girls of Chief Mhlolutini (Performer) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1955
- Subjects: Music--South Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Zulu , Africa South Africa Mahlabatini f-sa
- Language: Zulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133048 , vital:36927 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR010-05
- Description: Two love songs with Makhweyana musical bow
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1955
Amadoda e lenge
- Authors: L. Shandu (Performer) , L. Shandu (Composer) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1955
- Subjects: Music--South Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Zulu , Africa South Africa Mahlabatini f-sa
- Language: Zulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133198 , vital:36946 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR010-21
- Description: Self-delectative tunes without words, wiith Igekle flute
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1955
Amapoyisa ahlal' esangweni
- Authors: Group of Baca Men (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Zulu , Africa South Africa Mahlabatini f-za
- Language: Zulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133452 , vital:36978 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR012-07
- Description: Wedding song with sticks
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Amaseyibokwe athengwa ngemali eninzi (For a certain type of socks you pay dearly)
- Authors: Gcaleka boys and girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Folk music , Africa South Africa Idutywa f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151135 , vital:39033 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR063-07
- Description: The harmonica or mouth organ is a cheap and useful instrument to the Gcaleka who manage to produce a number of very simple repetitive tunes for accompanying their dances by this means. Mtstosho dance song, with harmonica.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Api amatole makw edini (Hullo, you boys, where are the calves?)
- 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
Asiyoyetha, lengoma yeye Badala (This song is not ours, it is Badala's)
- Authors: Young girls and boys of Durban location , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Africa South Africa Peddie f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/149208 , vital:38815 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR059-07
- Description: Circumcision song
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Aunakuva unafoko upendukile (Can't you understand your mother has changed her mind)
- 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
Babelwa bodwa
- Authors: Performer not specified , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1955
- Subjects: Music--South Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Zulu , Africa South Africa Mahlabatini f-sa
- Language: Zulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133144 , vital:36940 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR010-15
- Description: Four self-delectative songs with Makhweyana bow
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1955
Badazi Bomthandazo (Christian women)
- Authors: Young boys , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Africa South Africa Peddie f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/150668 , vital:38995 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR060-13
- Description: This Mbayizelo or Impezu dance is not performed for any special occasion but just for fun. One young boy plays the repeated melody or the mouth organ, while the others do a kind of prancing dance while making a rhythmic roaring noise in their throats. Mbayizelo dance song, with mouth organ (harmonica).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Bam! Mfana kabanina undenzenzima (Bam! Whose son has made me pregnant)
- Authors: Group of Gcaleka women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Folk music , Africa South Africa Willowvale f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151237 , vital:39042 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR063-11
- Description: This song, sung without a trace of shyness, rather indicated a social state of affairs which was an accepted fact. It was not possible to obtain the true history behind the words and quite likely they contain an allusion of some local romance rather than to a local tragedy. Women's dance, with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Bathi abafana ndisandindazana ((Young men call me a beauty)
- Authors: Gcaleka women and girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Folk music , Africa South Africa Idutywa f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/150965 , vital:39023 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR062-06
- Description: The whole crowd of about 60 women and girls swayed from foot to foot as they sang with great enthusiasm.It is clearly a well known and much loved tune in this region. Drinking song with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957