A la la mama
- Authors: Madonsela, Mpunyuka , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1958-04-01
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Eswatini Bremersdorp f-sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/249915 , vital:51883 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT571-M23 , Research no. M2H3
- Description: A topical song about women accompanied by concertina.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958-04-01
Ah la la Mama
- Authors: Mpunyuka Madonsela , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Eswatini Bremersdorp District f-sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152686 , vital:39331 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR071-09
- Description: "No woman is any better than any other woman. The only difference is whether you love them or not." This piece of homely philosophy no doubt reflects far more than a merely personal opinion. Topical song with concertina.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Asikayiboni inyamazane
- Authors: Group of Swazi men , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1958-03-30
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Eswatini Entonjeni f-sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/249680 , vital:51853 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT566-M18 , Research no. M2F4
- Description: A song for the hunting ceremony .
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958-03-30
Baba wethu ose Zulwini
- Authors: Choir , Huwiler, Kurt , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1980-05-24
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Eswatini Manzini f-sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/256295 , vital:52704 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DD014-08
- Description: Indigenous music, Choral music.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1980-05-24
Babe kasenankomo
- Authors: Masitsela and 2 boys and 3 girls , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1958-03-26
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Eswatini Lobamba f-sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/247532 , vital:51592 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT557-M9 , Research no. M2B2
- Description: A ceremony song about a father whose cattle have been attacked, unaccompanied.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958-03-26
Babe kasenankomo (Father has no cattle left)
- Authors: Masitela with 2 boys and 3 girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Ewatini Lobamba, Mbabane f-sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152330 , vital:39247 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR068-18
- Description: A "reed ceremony" song, sung for the Mhlanga or reed ceremony. The words of the song imply that father has gone to court over various cases so often that all his cattle have been attacked. The reed ceremony is carried out when the girls of the tribe all go together to the reed beds to cut reeds for the palings of the villages which are a feature of the Swazi Kraals. Mhlanga song for the reed ceremony.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Babe lidzela nyoni
- Authors: Masitsela and 2 boys and 3 girls , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1958-03-26
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Eswatini Usutu Forest f-sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/247527 , vital:51591 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT557-M9 , Research no. M2B1
- Description: A wedding song sung by the bride's party unaccompanied.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958-03-26
Babe lidzela nyoni (Father neglects the bird)
- Authors: Four married girls, one unmarried and men of the Queen mother's village , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Ewatini Lobamba, Mbabane f-sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152258 , vital:39239 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR068-10
- Description: The song is sung by the bride's party at a Swati wedding. The singers could not explain the context of their song. Wedding song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Barberton Special
- Authors: The Star Brothers , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Eswatini Havelock mine f-sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152756 , vital:39339 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR072-04
- Description: This "gnome-like"" music, so easily played and accompanied has swept into popularity since 1956. It has an immediate effect upon young Africans, especially those under twenty and perhaps even more so upon the under ten year olds. Every tune on the whistle-flutes or penny whistles enjoys the mane of "special: a trick learnt from gramophone record titles. They all imitate other tunes in an urban/folk manner until there is no telling which tune came first, which is the original, and which is the imitation. Town dance with 2 guitars (-10.58-), 2 penny whistle-flutes.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Belebe la yee-lo!
- Authors: Dlamini, Cushane , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1958-03-29
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Eswatini Emkhuzweni f-sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/248829 , vital:51730 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT564-M16 , Research no. M2E3
- Description: A lament for a man who abandoned a women accompanied by the makweyana bow.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958-03-29
Belebe la yee-lo! (He is far, far away)
- Authors: Cushane Dlamini (woman of about 24 years) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Eswatini Emkhuzweni, Northern District f-sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152823 , vital:39346 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR072-10
- Description: The fingering was done by stopping the lower segment (the higher fundamental) with the back of the first and second fingers together. The song is a lament for the man who has abondoned her. Lament with Makweyana musical bow.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Belebe la yee-lo! (He is far, far away)
- Authors: Cushane Dlamini (woman of about 24 years) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Eswatini Emkhuzweni, Northern District f-sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152818 , vital:39345 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR072-10
- Description: The fingering was done by stopping the lower segment (the higher fundamental) with the back of the first and second fingers together. The song is a lament for the man who has abondoned her. Lament with Makweyana musical bow.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Bengiyo shela
- Authors: Group of 8 young Swazi men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Eswatini Emkhuzweni, Northern District f-sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153042 , vital:39376 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR073-13
- Description: The singers, who were sitting on the ground, all bent their heads on their folded arms while singing this song. It is the first opening movement of this dance before actully dancing. The dance itself is a variation of the Ndlamu stamping dance found all through Zululand and as far south as Thabankulu in the Transkei. "Bengiyo shela. Bengiyo shela ka lo bamba. Ngiyoshele malangena." Youn men's dance. Isibacha.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Bengiyo shela
- Authors: Group of 8 young Swazi men , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1958-03-29
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Eswatini Emkhuzweni f-sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/249639 , vital:51848 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT565-M17 , Research no. M2E9a
- Description: A young men dance song for the first opening movement of this dance before the actual dancing unaccompanied.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958-03-29
Bungalile utshuala
- Authors: Group of young Swazi men , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1958-03-31
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Eswatini Havelock mine f-sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/249780 , vital:51867 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT569-M21 , Research no. M2G8
- Description: A dance song for young people about drinking accompanied by ibaca drum and wooden clappers.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958-03-31
Bungalile utshuala (Drinking is not good for me)
- Authors: Group of 10 young Swazi men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Eswatini Havelock Mine, Endhlagene District f-sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153028 , vital:39374 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR073-11
- Description: "Drinking doesn't agree with me, when I'm drunk I can't stop talking. I tell everything." The impeccable sentiments expressed in this song seem to be universal. Each of the singers held a pair of hardwood clappers. The drum was a bass drum type common to the present day Nguni. Dance for young people. Ibaca with drum amd wooden clappers.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Demelabantu ungangezwe (Attack, for you are as great as the world)
- Authors: Ntsandvose Mucina, with 5 women and 5 men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Ewatini Entonjeni, Pigg's Peak f-sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152292 , vital:39243 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR068-14
- Description: The sangoma wore a fur hat and feathers. The word, no doubt, in this case was contained by the hills and a few miles outside. Divination song
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Dumelabantu ungangezwe
- Authors: Mucina, Ntsandvose , Five Swazi men and women , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1958-03-28
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Eswatini Entonjeni f-sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/248677 , vital:51713 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT562-M14 , Research no. M2D10
- Description: A divination song unaccompanied.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958-03-28
Haleluya
- Authors: Choir , Huwiler, Kurt , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1980-05-24
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Eswatini Manzini f-sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/256251 , vital:52700 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DD014-04
- Description: Indigenous music, Choral music.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1980-05-24
Haleluya
- Authors: Choir , Huwiler, Kurt , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1980-05-24
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Eswatini Manzini f-sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/256268 , vital:52701 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DD014-04
- Description: Indigenous music, Choral music.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1980-05-24