Sim'thi wakla
- Authors: Chief Buthelezi and his Tribesmen and Women (Performers) , N. Mpungose (Composer) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1955
- 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/10962/133407 , vital:36973 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR012-02
- Description: Isigekle wedding songs with stamping, clapping
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1955
Singa Mahhemu-hhemu
- Authors: Tribesmen and women of Chief Buthelezi (Performers) , Tshanibezwa (Composer) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1955
- Subjects: Music--South Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Zulu , Africa South Africa Buthelezi, Mahlabatini f-sa
- Language: Zulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/132924 , vital:36909 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR009-11
- Description: Three ceremonial songs, unaccompanied
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1955
Thambo le nyoka
- Authors: Constance Magogo and tribesman and women of Chief Buthelezi (Performers) , Mnyamana (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/10962/133131 , vital:36938 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR010-14
- Description: Historic song with Ugubu bow, vertical, single string, unbraced
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1955
Umankankalaza
- Authors: Chief Buthelezi and his Tribesmen and Women (Performers) , Mnyamana (Composer) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1955
- 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/10962/133443 , vital:36977 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR012-06
- Description: Drinking song with dancing and stamping of feet
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1955
Umfazi ohlupingane
- 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/10962/133193 , vital:36945 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR010-20
- Description: Self-delectative tunes without words, wiith Igekle flute
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1955
Unesikhwele
- 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/10962/133084 , vital:36933 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR010-09
- Description: Four love songs with Makhweyana musical bow
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1955
Ungungunyana
- 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/10962/133089 , vital:36934 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR010-10
- Description: Two self-delectative songs with Makhweyana bow
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1955
Usegugil' ubaba
- Authors: Chief Buthelezi and his Tribesmen and Women (Performers) , N. Mpungose (Composer) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1955
- 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/10962/133398 , vital:36972 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR012-01
- Description: Isigekle wedding songs with stamping, clapping
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1955
Uyi'ndlwane' mbana
- Authors: Amabutu of the Buthelezi clan (Performers) , M. Nge'ngelele (Composer) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1955
- Subjects: Music--South Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Zulu , Africa South Africa Buthelezi, Mahlabatini f-sa
- Language: Zulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/132933 , vital:36910 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR009-12
- Description: Regimental song, unaccompanied
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1955
Wawuyo kwenzani
- 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/10962/133030 , vital:36924 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR010-03
- Description: Four slef-delectative songs with Makhweyana bow
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1955
Yini we ngane Kabaka
- 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/10962/133019 , vital:36923 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR010-02
- Description: Four slef-delectative songs with Makhweyana bow
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1955
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
"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
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
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