Pelile Makoti (My love for you, Makoti, is finished)
- Authors: Citaumvano , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Lusikisiki f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136614 , vital:37397 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR032-11
- Description: Makoti was his wife. From what he said, the singer was devoted to her and their song was not to be taken too literally. His capotasto was placed on the fifth fret of the guitar. Love song with guitar.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Kamiyo (The story of Kamiyo)
- Authors: Mildred Ntshangase , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Lusikisiki f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136651 , vital:37401 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR032-15
- Description: This story was beautifully told. There was once a rich old man who had no wife. So he thought and thought, and then went down to the river, cut down a tree, took a piece of soft wood and made it into a woman. He gave it arms and legs, and a head. And it was a woman. Then he gave her dresses and said to her: "When you are spoken to, you must say you are the daughter of Mfulwe the stream." And she was a very beautiful woman. Now when the young men saw her, they said: "How can such an old man have such a beautiful young wife. We will take her away from him." So they took her away from him and took her her to their kraal. Now the old man had great many cattle and pigeons. And he told 2 of the pigeons to fly to the kraal and say what he told them to say. So they flew and they flew and went to the kraal and said to her: "Kamiyo, Kamiyo, give us your apron." So the people at the kraal said: "Oh, give them your apron, let them have it." So the pigeons flew back with it. Then the old man sent them back again, and they came to the kraal and sang: "Kamiyo, Kamiyo, give us your clothes." So the people at the kraal said: "Let them have your clothes and leave us in peace." So the pigeons took the clothes. But the old man sent them again, this time to take away her headdress. Then the people said: "Let them have your beads and your headcloth, it's the woman we want." The old man sent the pigeons back yet again, and this time they flew into the kraal and sang: Kamiyo, Kamiyo, give us your life. And so singing, they sat on her lap, picked out her brains and took her life. So the lovely Kamiyo crumbled away: first her arms and then her legs and then her head. And her body rolled down to the stream where she turned back into the tree again. Story.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Izibongo dalindyebo (Izibongo for Chief Dalindyebo)
- Authors: Three Mpondo Children , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Tembu (African people) , Field recordings , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Tabankulu f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139616 , vital:37757 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR050-02
- Description: Amongst other things they say: "You, Chief, are like a free woman, (a courtesan) meaning "You are beautifully dressed." "I want a beast with turned down horns." The children shrugged their shoulders down, left and right alternately to imitate the horns." Praises
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- Date Issued: 1957
Lahiwe indoda (When your husband is throwing you out of his house)
- Authors: Group of young Mpondo men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Lusikisiki f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136742 , vital:37413 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR033-10
- Description: "In the morning, I'll say one thing, at noon another, for my husband is throwing me out of the house." Party song for young people with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ukugwiya
- Authors: Group of old Hlubi men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Tembu (African people) , Field recordings , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139564 , vital:37751 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR049-02
- Description: Individual men spring out from the circle of singers and start their cries and their own song. The performance is continuous. The occasion uopn which this kind of song is sung is immediately after a circumcision ceremony. Some Hlubi call this Giya, others Gwiya. Post-initiation Giya dances with sticks.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Kauvele ubona (Appear and look)
- 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/10962/136679 , vital:37404 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR033-03
- Description: When the women clapped their hands they all chanted: "I left my lover." It appears that one woman can break in with her own song, thus taking over from another woman. Women's party song with clapping.
- 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
Ezimaqiya (A woman's headdress)
- Authors: Group of old Hlubi men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Tembu (African people) , Field recordings , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139555 , vital:37750 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR049-01
- Description: This rather mild-looking group were notable for a great variety of fur and feather headdresses, combined with porcupine quills. No particular pattern was follwed, simply the wearer's taste. The song is also sung on festive occassion. Post-initiation Giya dances with sticks.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Buzaufazi zipina inkomo (Ask the woman where the cattle are)
- Authors: Group of Mpondo men and 3 girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Lusikisiki f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136784 , vital:37421 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR033-14
- Description: The singers all lay flat on their stomachs, singing into their cupped hands, which were slightly vibrated. The leader was singing in a forced voice, which appears to be a local fashion in this kind of the song. Dance song for evening dance for young women.
- 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
Lahiwe indoda (In the morning I'll say one thing)
- Authors: Group of young Mpondo men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Lusikisiki f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136747 , vital:37415 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR033-11
- Description: The deserted wife; sung in good mood by the women when the men are drinking. Party song for young people wih clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Tikolosh (The imp)
- Authors: Group of young Mpondo girls and boys , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Lusikisiki f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136578 , vital:37393 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR032-06
- Description: This was performed by the same group of boys and girls as the previous item. The swaying bobbing movement of the dance accentuated by a double stamp on each foot alternately. All the boys carried 2 sticks. The words of the chorus were: "Tikolosh has a wife." Gubura dance for young people.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Wdoyika u-Ntusangili
- Authors: Five young Ngqika women and girls (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/10962/133512 , vital:36985 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR013-02
- Description: Party song for young people, with clapping
- 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
Namhla kungabwe sautini tina (Today it's your turn. What shall we do)
- Authors: Group of elder Mpondo men and 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/10962/136407 , vital:37373 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR030-07
- Description: This is an old fighting song. The Chief sang this with his leopard tail stick held aloft. Umrobo old fighting songs.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
U'tengisa nge misopu (You are selling the beadwork)
- Authors: Group of Mpondo men and girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Lusikisiki f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136775 , vital:37419 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR033-13
- Description: One of the young girls added the deep guttural rhythmic sounds peculiar to Xhosa singing. The singers were each of them singing into a slightly vibrating cupped hand. They were all lying on their stomachs on the grass wrapped in their blankets and looking like basking seals. Dance song for young people.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Utakata ngsandhla sako (Yo have laid me under a spell with your hands)
- Authors: Group of young Mpondo men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Lusikisiki f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136723 , vital:37410 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR033-08
- Description: The leader says: "You have laid me under a spell with your hands." To which the girls answer: "You, enhanting with your hands." Party song for young people with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Yazula inkabi endxla
- Authors: Group of 7 young men (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/10962/133569 , vital:36991 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR013-04
- Description: Group fighting song with clapping
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Khawuxheliso wakalo haha (Will you say what is wrong, ha ha)
- Authors: Group of Qwathi women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Tembu (African people) , Field recordings , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Engcobo f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139583 , vital:37753 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR049-04
- Description: In the middle of this song the headman and the owner of the hut got up, delievered a rousing speech and stepped back to his place on the left of the door, very pleased with himself. After that the woman resumed singing with renewed vigour, stood up and accompanied themselves by a double stamp instead of the single stamp usually heard further south. Topical song sung in the evening with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ikomo siyaibulaa (Let the cattle be killed)
- Authors: Group of Mpondo men and 3 girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Lusikisiki f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136789 , vital:37422 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR033-15
- Description: The girls sang in the background. Dance song for evening dance for young women.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957