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Inkosi ya Mponda

  • Authors: Women of Kalana location , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Africa South Africa King Williams Town f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/149476 , vital:38856 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR059-14
  • Description: A diviner arrived in person but declined to sing with the women who were all sitting around on the floor of the hut, about 80 of them. The married women were more soberly dressed than the young unmarried ones and wore their headclothes in the more usual Xhosa 'pile' of cloth on the head, producing a large loose turban-like effect. Diviner's song, with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Inkulu into ezakwenzeka

Inkuntse

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.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Intlnganiso ya magqiha ye Isangoma (Proceddings at Herbalist's meeting)

Intlnganiso ya magqiha ye Isangoma (Proceedings at Herbalist's meeting)

Intonjane

Intsimbi ka Ntiskana (Ntsikana's bells and Ntsikana's song)

  • Authors: Iqela Labavumi bakwa Zwelitsha (Zwelitsha Choral Society) , Bokwe, S. T. , Bekwe, J. K. , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Music--Religious aspects , Africa South Africa King Williams Town f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135727 , vital:37293 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR026-01
  • Description: Ntsikana was the first Christian convert of the Xhosa tribes. "The song was chanted by Ntsikana regularly at dawn of day, standing at his hut door, summoning the people to morning prayer. As people gathered they joined in the strains, adding different parts. Extracts taken from the songbook "Amaculo ase Lovedale.", published by the Lovedale Press.- It is notable that Ntsikana had never heard a church bell. The tune is of African origin. Religious descriptive chant and song.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Intsizwa zombango bekinduka pantsi (Quarrelling youths, put down your sticks)

Inxubaba ayiwelwa (The Fish River is not crossed)

  • Authors: Women of Tuku's Location , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Wedding music , Africa South Africa Peddie f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135803 , vital:37300 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR026-07
  • Description: The song is sung during a wedding by either party, the bride's or groom's. Two men performed a step-dance, clicking their heels. This group of Mfengu at Tuku's Location belongs to the Radebe clan. Wedding song
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Isele (The rapacious frog)

  • Authors: Nosayini , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Storytelling , Africa South Africa Willowvale f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136179 , vital:37346 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR028-13
  • Description: Recorded in a Gcaleka hut. Most huts have one small window, about the size of a ship's porthole, but this had none. There was once a frog who swallowed a baby and took it down to the river.- It gave the baby to another frog, who in turn swallowed it. The second frog took the baby back to its village. It met some boys on the way to whom it explained what it was going to do. So it gave back the baby and the people gave it a cow. The next morning it went back and asked for another cow which the people gave. But when it asked for a third cow on the following morning the people grew hungry and killed it. The name of the headman at whose kraal we recorded was KRIKRI ZWELILLUNGILE HLOKOMILE. Although the story-teller sang a song during the course of the story, the others did not sing a refrain, which is commonly the African practice. A story.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Isele (The rapacious frog)

  • Authors: Nosayini , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Storytelling , Africa South Africa Willowvale f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136170 , vital:37345 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR028-13
  • Description: Recorded in a Gcaleka hut. Most huts have one small window, about the size of a ship's porthole, but this had none. There was once a frog who swallowed a baby and took it down to the river.- It gave the baby to another frog, who in turn swallowed it. The second frog took the baby back to its village. It met some boys on the way to whom it explained what it was going to do. So it gave back the baby and the people gave it a cow. The next morning it went back and asked for another cow which the people gave. But when it asked for a third cow on the following morning the people grew hungry and killed it. The name of the headman at whose kraal we recorded was KRIKRI ZWELILLUNGILE HLOKOMILE. Although the story-teller sang a song during the course of the story, the others did not sing a refrain, which is commonly the African practice. A story.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Isicathula (Boots)

  • Authors: Jury Mpelho , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Grahamstown f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135880 , vital:37307 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR027-01
  • Description: A very lively gay little number. The performers danced their own version of a gumboot dance. Town dance with drum and electric guitar.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Ithaca litwele ibaketi (A Baca is carrying a bucket)

Itileni

  • Authors: Group of Xhosa "amakwenkwe" young men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Africa South Africa Kentani f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/149134 , vital:38807 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR059-01
  • Description: "You can look down on the train that goes from Mazeppa to Natal." Sung by boys on their way to the Mtshosho dance. The lilt is very infectious. "Amakwenkwe", young men, are under the approximate age 18-20 years. They are so called before they have been initiated and achieved full manhood. A walking song.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Izibongo dalindyebo (Izibongo for Chief Dalindyebo)

Izibongo dalindyebo (Izibongo for Chief Dalindyebo)

Jomjom (A pot full of beer)

  • Authors: Group of Xhosa women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Willowvale f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136160 , vital:37344 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR028-12
  • Description: The singers also said:- "Gallop away quickly, horse of Sochongane." Whether from or to the party where the pot was full of beer, was not clear.- Sochongane was one of the men living nearby.- JOMJOM also means, they explained, the galloping of a horse. Drinking song with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Jomjom ndaliwa yindoda ngenxa yako (Jomjom, I have been divorced by my husband on your account)

  • Authors: Nozikencele and Gcaleka girls , 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/10962/150960 , vital:39022 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR062-05
  • Description: Jomjom is a familiar name for the local drink, millet beer. It is on account of her love of beer that she lost her husband, so the song goes, in time honoured fashion the world over. The song is an excellent round with each girl singing her own variations. Drinking song with Ikinki mouth resonated musical bow.
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  • 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.
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  • Date Issued: 1957
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