Yela Mabala = Hello Mabala
- Authors: Lomadlozi Dlamini and group of Swazi women , Composer not specified , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1980
- Subjects: Folk music , Sacred music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Eswatini Pigg's Peak sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/406639 , vital:70295 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DDC106a-12
- Description: A wedding song asking for leave to be accepted into the family.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1980
Yekhwela sekhwele (Get on, let us get on the bus)
- Authors: Tsembani Kunene , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Eswatini Entonjeni, Pigg's Peak f-sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152851 , vital:39349 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR072-12
- Description: This song is said to be sung by the Swaziz recurited for the mines on their way to join. The bow was stressed, the two segments being 35" and 39" long, the longer, more bass, note being held uppermost. Self delectative song with Makweyana bow, stressed and gourd resonated.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Yehova nga a nendwe
- Authors: Munyayi, Philemon , Group of Church Singers , Composer Not Specified , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1988
- Subjects: Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Thohoyandou f-sa
- Language: Tshivenḓa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/312288 , vital:59362 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DD127-18
- Description: Religious song with Tshihwana mouth bow and drums accompaniment.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1988
Yehla moyo oyingcwele
- Authors: Music workshop participants , Martina, OSB., Sister , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1977
- Subjects: Folk music , Sacred music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Redacres sa
- Language: IsiZulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/354929 , vital:64433 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DDC040a-07
- Description: Zulu church music workshop performance, accompanied by the drum and rattle
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1977
Yehla moyo oyingcwele
- Authors: Music workshop participants , Martina, OSB., Sister , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1977
- Subjects: Folk music , Sacred music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Redacres sa
- Language: IsiZulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/355394 , vital:64496 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DDC041a-07
- Description: Zulu church music workshop performance, accompanied by the drum and rattle
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1977
Yehla moya oyingcwele
- Authors: Music workshop participants , Martina., Sister , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1977
- Subjects: Folk music , Sacred music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Redacres sa
- Language: IsiZulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/355823 , vital:64544 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DDC041a-07
- Description: Music workshop performance, accompanied by the drum and rattle
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1977
Yehla Moya Oyincwele
- Authors: Church music workshop participants , Martina., Sister , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1977
- Subjects: Folk music , Sacred music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa KwaZulu Natal sa
- Language: isiZulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/330782 , vital:61487 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DDC318-07
- Description: Church music accompanied by drum and rattle
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1977
Year of famine
- Authors: Shibu, Veronika , Music Workshop Group , Composer Not Specified , Ganes, Annamarta , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1988
- Subjects: Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Namibia Gobabis f-sx
- Language: Khoekhoegowab
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/308533 , vital:58929 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DD117-09
- Description: Bushman healing song with step backward dance performance accompanied by clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1988
Ye yo oho ye ndinomva ndedwa halala
- Authors: Xhosa Choir Group , Composer Not Specified , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1980
- Subjects: Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Lumko sa
- Language: isiXhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/323039 , vital:60627 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DD163B-19
- Description: Traditional song, accompanied by clapping
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1980
Ye Muka Ingwababa Fute Unina (My wife is just like her mother)
- Authors: Yelanjani Matula , 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/10962/152653 , vital:39328 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR071-06
- Description: "When my wife left me she did not ever say goodbye to my father and mother. She was just like her mother." Topical song with concertina.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Ye Mandela
- Authors: Ngqoko Xhosa ensemble participants , Composer not specified , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1996
- Subjects: Folk music , Sacred music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Alice sa
- Language: IsiXhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/341058 , vital:62725 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DDC338a-01
- Description: Ngqoko music ensemble accompanied by clapping and whistle
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1996
Ye Makhotl' omncane
- Authors: Preformer not specified , Composer not specified , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1979
- Subjects: Folk music , Sacred music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Esikwankqeni sa
- Language: isiXhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/346157 , vital:63357 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DDC352a-10
- Description: Xhosa music recordings
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1979
Ye magwaza (To stab)
- Authors: Old 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/10962/150950 , vital:39020 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR062-03
- Description: This song was sung at an informal drinking party at a friend's hut. The singers were not informed beforehand and sang as they sat around on the ground at the party. The host's name, Nzomzoloni Mzelani. Circumcision song for Abakweta dance with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ye chikoro (Of the school)
- Authors: Stephen Runeso Gumbo , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Karanga (African people) , Folk songs, Shona , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Fort Victoria, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
- Language: Shona, Karanga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154265 , vital:39641 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR081-02
- Description: A tune after the style of the 'Makolwa' (converts to christianity) with all the simplicity of melody, lack od sublety and false (iambic) accent. It is a clever skit on the style of performance introduced by the readers into most African schools. Humorous song with Kalimba (mbira).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Yazisa Uyihlo Nonyoko
- Authors: Sacred Music Festival Participants , Composer Not Specified , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1989
- Subjects: Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Ga-Rankuwa f-sa
- Language: Setswana
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/315005 , vital:59667 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DD136-37
- Description: Unaccompanied Music Festival Performance.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1989
Yaya ulu kumwaka nalabla msenga
- Authors: Kabadiko Lugembe with Sukuma men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Nyamwezi (African people) , Sukuma (African people) , Folk songs, Sukuma , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Ilemera f-tz
- Language: Nyamwezi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173369 , vital:42363 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR150-12
- Description: "No, no, this man only a messenger and is not to be blamed." The Sukuma are given to forming groups or socities with definite objectives. Some are solely for dancing, others for hunting while others again like the Buchwezi group believe they can create protective spells against attack by crocodiles from Lake Victoria and the river. Buchwezi protective spell, with gourd rattles.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Yawora nangba eni gumbo dai kukise
- Authors: Ngbanda Mandefu and Kumbazingi Louis , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk songs, Mangbetu , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Buta f-cg
- Language: Ngbandi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/167016 , vital:41429 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0121-15
- Description: "Chief Yawora, you do not need to listen to those who nerely want something of you." The tuning of the Isanzo was pentatonic, the scale being 624, 536, 448, 392, 328, 292, 268, 224, 196, 164 vs. The player said he was not able to sing and play at the same time. Tune played on Isanzo likembe (Mbira) of 10 notes.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Yawiyanga, ya kulumbata nyama
- Authors: Three Chokwe men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Chokwe (African people) , Folk music , Angola , Congo (Democratic Republic) , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Sandoa f-cg
- Language: Luvale/Chokwe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137060 , vital:37484 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR036-04
- Description: The song is sung to celebrate the arrival of a hunter bringing back his booty. Song after hunting with 3 goblet drums, open, pinned, weighted, hand beaten.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Yave- yave (Kafoya greetings)
- Authors: Group of 9 Lunda men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Southern Lunda (African people) , Folk music , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Katanga f-cg
- Language: Lunda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139367 , vital:37731 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR048-01
- Description: The drummer used his heels to alter the pitch of the drum on which he sat. The drum was made of a rectangular box 21" x 10". Ceremonial farewell song with 1 box drum, hand beaten, 2 Litswakaie basket rattles and 1 bottle.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Yasuka yalila kwa oko inkuku
- Authors: Xhosa festival workshop participants , Mpotulo, Lambert , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1977
- Subjects: Folk music , Sacred music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Alice sa
- Language: isiXhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/332916 , vital:61721 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DDC322b-06
- Description: Xhosa festival workshop performance accompanied by drum
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1977