Babe lidzela nyoni (Father neglects the bird)
- Authors: Four married girls, one unmarried and men of 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/10962/152258 , vital:39239 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR068-10
- Description: The song is sung by the bride's party at a Swati wedding. The singers could not explain the context of their song. Wedding song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Kuyashisa kunemikhobo laphekhaya (It is hot here at home)
- Authors: Four married girls, one unmarried and men of 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/10962/152249 , vital:39238 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR068-09
- Description: Song sung by a royal bride's party. The implication of the words is that the bride must accept her new way of life with all its trials "for better or for worse." Wedding song with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Kuyashisa kunemikhobo laphekhaya
- Authors: Four married girls, one unmarried and men 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/10962/247309 , vital:51568 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT551-M3 , Research no. M2A7
- Description: Wedding song with clapping accompaniment sung by a Royal bride's party.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958-03-25
Kuyashisa kunemikhobo laphekhaya = It is hot here at home
- Authors: Four married girls, one unmarried and men of the Queen mother's village , 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/10962/406565 , vital:70285 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DDC106a-09
- Description: A song sung by the Royal bride's party advising her to accept her new way of life whether good or bad.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1980
Intombi zegoli zilalemagenwane
- Authors: Four married women and one young girl and men of the Queen's Mother 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/10962/247304 , vital:51567 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT551-M3 , Research no. M2A6
- Description: Unaccompanied Mhlanga ceremonial song for the reed ceremony.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958-03-25
Intombi zegoli zilalemagenwane (The girls of Johannesburg are immoral)
- Authors: Four married women and one young girl, and men of the Queen'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/10962/152321 , vital:39246 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR068-17
- Description: Sung for the "reed" ceremonies or Mhlanga. Mhlanga reed ceremony song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Swahele (Winnowing)
- Authors: Gagaza Mavimbela and group of Swazi men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Eswatini Usutu Forest, Mbabane f-sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152575 , vital:39311 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR070-08
- Description: Winnowing song
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Yethi Nkhosikati
- Authors: Group Composition , Dlamini, Adelia , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1982-09-26
- Subjects: Choral music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Eswatini Mzimpofu f-sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/275309 , vital:55030 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DD054-06
- Description: Indigenous music.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1982-09-26
Yethi, Maria make wesive
- Authors: Group Composition , Performer not specified , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1982-09-26
- Subjects: Choral music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Eswatini Mzimpofu f-sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/275373 , vital:55037 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DD054-10
- Description: Indigenous music.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1982-09-26
Yethi Maria
- Authors: Group Composition , Dlamini, Adelia , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1982-09-26
- Subjects: Choral music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Eswatini Mzimpofu f-sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/275304 , vital:55029 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DD054-05
- Description: Indigenous music.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1982-09-26
Yethi Maria
- Authors: Group Composition , Dlamini, Adelia , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1982-09-26
- Subjects: Choral music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Eswatini Mzimpofu f-sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/275299 , vital:55028 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DD054-04
- Description: Indigenous music.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1982-09-26
Magnificat
- Authors: Group Composition , Dlamini, Adelia , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1982-09-26
- Subjects: Choral music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Eswatini Mzimpofu f-sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/275326 , vital:55031 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DD054-07
- Description: Indigenous music.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1982-09-26
Nkhosi bheka sive semaSwati
- Authors: Group Composition , Performer not specified , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1982-09-26
- Subjects: Choral music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Eswatini Mzimpofu f-sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/275336 , vital:55032 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DD054-08
- Description: Indigenous music.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1982-09-26
Silent Night
- Authors: Group Composition , McAlister, James , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1982-09-26
- Subjects: Choral music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Eswatini Mzimpofu f-sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/275390 , vital:55038 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DD054-11
- Description: Indigenous music.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1982-09-26
Ngibanjwe sigebengu sentombanzana swazini
- Authors: Group of 10 Swazi men , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1958-03-26
- 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/10962/248566 , vital:51699 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT558-M10 , Research no. M2C2
- Description: A song for the ndhlamu dance unaccompanied.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958-03-26
Ngibanjwe sigebengu sentombazana swazini (I made love to a girl who already had a lover)
- Authors: Group of 10 young Swazi men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Eswatini Pigg's Peak f-sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153064 , vital:39378 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR073-15
- Description: "I made love to a girl who already had a lover. The case was brought against me by the policeman of the 'Ngonine' Estates. I would be a free man were it not for the Ngonine Estates." Ndlamu dance.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Bungalile utshuala (Drinking is not good for me)
- Authors: Group of 10 young Swazi men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Eswatini Havelock Mine, Endhlagene District f-sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153028 , vital:39374 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR073-11
- Description: "Drinking doesn't agree with me, when I'm drunk I can't stop talking. I tell everything." The impeccable sentiments expressed in this song seem to be universal. Each of the singers held a pair of hardwood clappers. The drum was a bass drum type common to the present day Nguni. Dance for young people. Ibaca with drum amd wooden clappers.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Iyahlomi dlovu
- Authors: Group of 8 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/10962/247434 , vital:51581 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT554-M6 , Research no. M2A18
- Description: Traditional Umgubo regimental song with stamping accompaniment.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958-03-25
Bengiyo shela
- Authors: Group of 8 young Swazi men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Eswatini Emkhuzweni, Northern District f-sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153042 , vital:39376 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR073-13
- Description: The singers, who were sitting on the ground, all bent their heads on their folded arms while singing this song. It is the first opening movement of this dance before actully dancing. The dance itself is a variation of the Ndlamu stamping dance found all through Zululand and as far south as Thabankulu in the Transkei. "Bengiyo shela. Bengiyo shela ka lo bamba. Ngiyoshele malangena." Youn men's dance. Isibacha.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Wena wamakhos' ezizwe
- Authors: Group of 8 young Swazi men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Eswatini Emkhuzweni, Northern District f-sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153037 , vital:39375 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR073-12
- Description: The singers, who were sitting on the ground, all bent their heads on their folded arms while singing this song. It is the first opening movement of this dance before actully dancing. The dance itself is a variation of the Ndlamu stamping dance found all through Zululand and as far south as Thabankulu in the Transkei. "Nawe Mawati nyi Nkosi ka Hhohho. Youn men's dance. Ugunkwaya.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958