Yinina ke we Sponono
- Authors: Daughter of Chief Mhlolutini and other girls (Performers) , 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/10962/133006 , vital:36919 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR010-01
- Description: Four slef-delectative songs with Makhweyana bow
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1955
Lithoko
- Authors: Composer not specified , Sam Mosheshwe and another (Performers) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Speeches, addresses, etc., African , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-za
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133993 , vital:37058 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR016-07
- Description: 2 Lithoko praises
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ngazula ezintabeni
- 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/10962/133156 , vital:36941 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR010-16
- Description: Four self-delectative songs with Makhweyana bow
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1955
Intlanganiso ya magqiha ye Izangoma (Herbalists' meeting
- Authors: Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Herbalists , Africa South Africa Umtata f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134821 , vital:37209 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0022-01
- Description: Extracts from the proceedings at the first conference of Izangoma Diviners, to be held in Umtata, Transkei. The speech and songs were entirely impromptu and demonstrate the type of speech employed by such herbalists and their supporting singers or assistants. Herbalists' meeting, with songs, speech, with clapping, stamping and 1 bass drum.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Tula mutwana
- Authors: Two elderly women (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/10962/133660 , vital:37001 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR013-13
- Description: Lullaby with clapping
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Hiho
- Authors: Group of Sotho men and small Sotho boys (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Sotho , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-za
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134205 , vital:37099 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR018-06
- Description: This time the mouse-hunting somg was performed by the young hunters themselves. It appears they hunt 2 types of field mouse, one plain, the other stripped. The first song "Hiho" was for the plain rats, the second "Khoana" says: "We are driving the striped rats along the banks towards our friends who are waiting for them."
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Lithoko
- Authors: Composer not specified , Sam Mosheshwe and another (Performers) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Speeches, addresses, etc., African , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-za
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133988 , vital:37057 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR016-06
- Description: 2 Lithoko praises
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Inkulu into ezakwenzeka
- 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/10962/133587 , vital:36993 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR013-06
- Description: Self-delactative song with Hadi bow, unbraced, open string and resonated
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Emalomeni
- Authors: Cwaizile Shandu and Nomatheku Zungu (Performers) , 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/10962/133057 , vital:36930 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR010-06
- Description: Four love songs with Makhweyana musical bow
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1955
Sawubona
- Authors: Son of Chief Mhlolutini, Nganzakwenye Shandu (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/10962/133098 , vital:36935 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR010-11
- Description: Two self-delectative songs with Makhweyana bow
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1955
Wemka unlungu nelizwe
- Authors: Group of Xhosa women (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/10962/133641 , vital:36999 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR013-11
- Description: Lament with clapping
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ea ema nthodona matsetsela
- 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/10962/134250 , vital:37107 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR018-11
- Description: This Izangoma and his wife were both dressed in scarlet, with skirts lavishly sewn with beads and many bead and "lucky seed" necklaces and bangles and leggings. Bead bands and strands on the head. The learner-izangomaare distinguished by a string of white beads round their heads.The Izangoma were supposed to be finding and throwing a "spirit" out of someone who had ben 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 performers were actually Sotho.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Lengae
- Authors: Composer not specified , Group of Sotho men (Performers) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Sotho , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-za
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134010 , vital:37059 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR016-08
- Description: Post-circumcision song
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Langa lashona
- Authors: Son of Chief Mhlolutini, Nganzakwenye Shandu (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/10962/133112 , vital:36936 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR010-12
- Description: self-delectative song with Makhweyana musical bow
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1955
Haopala pitsi
- Authors: Group of Sotho men (Perfomers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Sotho , Work songs , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-za
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134127 , vital:37076 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR018-01
- Description: The song compares the striped colourings of a certain caterpillar with those of a zebra.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ibekele kangera
- Authors: Cwaizile Shandu and Nomatheku Zungu (Performers) , 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/10962/133075 , vital:36932 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR010-08
- Description: Four love songs with Makhweyana musical bow
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1955
Umgaq' uphum' entabeni
- 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 Kingwilliamstown f-za
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133497 , vital:36983 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR012-12
- Description: Song sung when a wizard or witch is to be put to death
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
He re bamang
- Authors: Group of Sotho men and Khotso Lepheana (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Sotho , Praise , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-za
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134232 , vital:37103 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR018-09
- Description: These were praises to the Bahlakoana men who were fighting against the Zulu of Mzilikazi-the one who eventually went north from the Ndebele people of Rhodesia.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Lithoko tsa Morena Neo Sibi
- Authors: Group of Sotho men and Khotso Lepheana (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Sotho , Praise , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-za
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134241 , vital:37104 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR018-10
- Description: The praises spoken in the intervals of the song are in honour of the fighters of the tribe. (Knotso means 'Peace'.) The hero of this praise verse is the Chief of the Sibi location, a region north of Matatiele lying along the Qacha's Nek Road, adjoining the eastern border of Basutoland.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
O' Nonqayi ndoboqana
- 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/10962/133615 , vital:36997 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR013-09
- Description: Self-delactative song with Hadi bow, unbraced, open string and resonated
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957