Imale yami idliwa yingwababane (My money has been eaten up by courtesans)
- Authors: Five young girls and group of women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Eswatini Lobamba, Mbabane f-sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153019 , vital:39373 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR073-10
- Description: One of the young women performed a dance during this recording. She had rattles made from the dry cocoons of a kind of bag worm found on trees, strapped on her ankles ("Magano" Umsinsi). Ukutsamba, with clapping and ankle rattles.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Imali yam
- Authors: Manzini Church congregation , Composer not specified , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1980
- Subjects: Folk music , Sacred music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Eswatini Manzini sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/404803 , vital:70110 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DDC103-03
- Description: Traditional Siswati song, accompanied by the whistle.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1980
Imali yami idliwa yingwababane
- Authors: Five young girls and group of women , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1958-03-25
- 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/10962/247343 , vital:51571 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT552-M4 , Research no. M2A10
- Description: Women's dance song, Ukutsamba with clapping and Umsinsi ankle rattles accompaniment.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958-03-25
Imbube ingonyama
- Authors: Five girls of the Queen Mother's village , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1958-03-25
- 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/10962/247278 , vital:51564 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT550-M2 , Research no. M2A4
- Description: Unaccompanied wedding song sung by the bride's party, when the King's daughter is going to be married.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958-03-25
Imbube Ingonyama (You are the lion)
- Authors: Five girls from 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/10962/152240 , vital:39237 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR068-08
- Description: The song goes on:- "You are growing up to eat man and kill people." The song is sung by the brides' party when the king's daughter is going to be married. The song is addressed to the bridegroom. Lamkhwanse Tsemba was the leader. The prefix "la" indicates she is married. Four of these girls were married and wore their hair in the "Swati dome", the other had her hair painted and combed to form a circular cap. Wedding song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Imbube ingonyama = You are the lion
- Authors: Five girls from the Queen Mother's village , Tsemba, Lamkhwanase , Composer not specified , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1980
- Subjects: Folk music , Sacred music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Eswatini Mbabane sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/406513 , vital:70281 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DDC106a-08
- Description: A wedding song sung by the bride's party to the bridegroom when the King's daughter is going to be married.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1980
Imiziyabola kaNgwane
- Authors: Large group of Swazi men , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1958-03-28
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Eswatini Pigg's Peak f-sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/248623 , vital:51706 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT560-M12 , Research no. M2D3
- Description: A group song refering to a faction fight when the houses of the soldiers up north were burnt while they were away.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958-03-28
Imiziyabola kaNgwane (Kraals are being destroyed)
- Authors: Large group of Swazi 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/10962/152455 , vital:39280 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR069-07
- Description: "Imiziyabola kangwane ngendzaba yempi Uyexa jaha wasalele kuyichitisi miti nasise nyakathwo." "Kraals are being destroyed in the country of the Ngwane (Swaziland), because of the war. You understand, you young men, you who stayed behind to destroy our villages while we were up north." (This seems to refer to a faction fight when the houses of the soilders up north were burnt while they were away). Umgubo group song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Incaba kancofula
- Authors: Group of Swazi men , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1958-03-25
- 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/10962/247487 , vital:51587 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT555-M7 , Research no. M2A24
- Description: Unaccompanied traditional Umgubo regimental song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958-03-25
Incaba kancofula
- Authors: Group of girls and men from Queen Mother's vilage , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1958-03-25
- 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/10962/247353 , vital:51573 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT552-M4 , Research no. M2A12
- Description: Unaccompanied traditional Umgubo regimental song which is the Swazi national anthem song and is their great song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958-03-25
Incaba kancofula
- Authors: Group of young Swazi men and girls , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1958-03-26
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Eswatini Labamba f-sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/248510 , vital:51693 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT557-M9 , Research no. M2B5
- Description: A regimental song sung inside the Swazi hut unaccompanied.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958-03-26
Incaba KaNcofula (We capyured the fortress of Ncofula)
- Authors: Group of young Swazi men and girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Swazi (African people) , Folk music , Africa Eswatini Labamba, Mbabane f-sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153169 , vital:39415 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR075-01
- Description: This version of the famous Swati song was sung quietly by a small group of young men and women inside a 12 foot Swazi beehive hut in order to demonstrate the structure and harmonies involved. Regimental song, Umgubo.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Incaba no Ncofula
- Authors: Large group of Swazi men , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1958-03-28
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Eswatini Pigg's Peak f-sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/248641 , vital:51708 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT560-M12 , Research no. M2D5
- Description: A regimental song about an ancient quarrel between the Queen Mother and the Paramount Chief.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958-03-28
Incaba no Ncofula (Come out of your cave Ncofula)
- Authors: Large group of Swazi men , 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/10962/152537 , vital:39307 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR070-04
- Description: "Inkuzi yethu ye wukasilo yewukanduba nonsincaba ka ncofula." "Come down you, Chief Ncofula from your small cave to our large one!" Umgubo group song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Indlaliso
- Authors: Swazi men of the Lindimbi age group , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1958-03-28
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Eswatini Pigg's Peak f-sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/248668 , vital:51712 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT561-M13 , Research no. M2D7
- Description: This chant is performed in the barracks when dancing is over.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958-03-28
Indlaliso (Games)
- Authors: Swazi men of the "Lindimbi" age group. , 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/10962/152509 , vital:39303 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR070-01
- Description: The singers belonged to the Lindimbi group or regiment. The chant is one of these performed in their barracks when dancing is over. It seems each regiment has many such chants. They accompany the military exercises or drill by which the young men used to keep themselves in fighting trim. The chant with its frequent changes of rhythms which mark the change to a different movement. This performance was very well done. The men were all between the ages of 18 and 30, and belonged to the age group Lindimbi. They perform a number of movements, leaping forward and backward, tuning into file, marching around in a circle and many other actions. It is a most attractive dance drill. ENTONJENI is the old royal kraal. The hill nearby is still used as a burial ground for some members of the royal lineage. Tiga chant to accompany military games or drill.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Ineba no neofula
- Authors: Siswati Group , 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/10962/407252 , vital:70351 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DDC106b-01
- Description: Traditional Siswati group song, unaccompanied.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1980
Inganile intombi yami Nokuzula
- Authors: Matula, Yelanyani , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1958-04-01
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Eswatini Havelock f-sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/249910 , vital:51881 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT571-M23 , Research no. M2H2
- Description: A topical song about disappointment accompanied by concertina.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958-04-01
Inganile Intombi Yami Nokuzula (My girl Nokuzula has left me)
- 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/10962/152666 , vital:39329 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR071-07
- Description: A phrase in this song refers to the custom of reserving a portion of an animal, the heart or chops for the younger people. So comparing this to the loss of the girl, he says, waiting in anticipation of his share of the chops, he is disappointed. Topical song with concertina.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Inkonjana emnyama
- Authors: Mazia, Obed , Hlope, Jameson , Macabo, Wilton , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1958-03-25
- 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/10962/247448 , vital:51583 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT554-M6 , Research no. M2A20
- Description: Dance song with 2 penny whistles and guitar accompaniment.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958-03-25