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Intombi zipelile (The girls are finished)

- Group of young Mpondo men and girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of young Mpondo men and girls , 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/10962/136362 , vital:37368 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR030-02
  • Description: The young men were mostly wearing pale blue blankets and carrying sticks; the girls were beautifully beaded. They wore their hair in many fine plaits hanging on either side of the face. Over this was worn the tubular bead headring or headband, (if the girl was unmarried) mostly in pale blue and white beads, many strands of sky blue and white beads wound about their necks to form choker collars. Song for Indlam' dance, with clapping of sticks.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Kwanukimpi

- Group of Mpondo elder men and women, Composer unknown, Tracey, Hugh

Api amatole makw edini (Hullo, you boys, where are the calves?)

- John Lila, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: John Lila , 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/10962/136638 , vital:37400 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR032-14
  • Description: The verse is about some herdboys and what they did. Old verse.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Ndinike inkomo zolobole (Give back mu dowry)

- Group of Mpondo women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of Mpondo 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/10962/136383 , vital:37371 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR030-05
  • Description: This dance was performed by the married women standing in a circle. In the second part of the song they say: "The person who grinds the corn for the beer has a lot to say."- Some of the women had painted their faces with pale yellow ochre.- They wore pale blue blankets, were lavishly decorated with beads, mostly in sky blue and white, wore calf length beaded skirts, and a great many brass wire bracelets. In some cases, the typical headring was made of a leather strap (a dog's collar) studded with brass studs, edged and fringed with sky blue and white beads. Umgouzo girl's initiation dance.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Undibuliseli ku Lungwengwe

- Group of young Mpondo married women, Composer unknown, Tracey, Hugh

Kauvele ubona

- Group of young Mpondo married women, Composer unknown, Tracey, Hugh

Intombi ziphelile

- Group of Mpondo men and girls, Composer unknown, Tracey, Hugh

Masihambe bawo silele emzini (We slept at a certain kraal, let us go early)

- Group of young Mpondo married women, Hugh Tracey

  • 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/10962/136702 , vital:37407 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR033-06
  • Description: This performance was begun by one woman and then taken over by another. It appears as if they may go on doing this as long as they wish. The women twine cotton woll in with the long fine plaits of hair at the back of their head. Party song for women.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Undebulisele ku Lungwengwe (Give my best wishes to Lungwengwe, also to your mother)

- Group of young Mpondo married women, Hugh Tracey

Olihomba

- Group of young Mpondo married women, Composer unknown, Tracey, Hugh

Ndinike inkomo zolobolo

- Group of Mpondo women, Composer unknown, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Group of Mpondo women , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1957-05-23
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Tabankulu f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/228438 , vital:49558 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT427-L48 , Research no. L1U9
  • Description: A girls' initiation song, accompanied by clapping, demanding the lobola back from someone who has it, .
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957-05-23

Api amatole makwedini

- Lila, John, Composer unknown, Tracey, Hugh

Namhla kungabwe sautini tina

- Tantsi, Madlanga, Mpondo men, Composer unknown, Tracey, Hugh

Izibongo dalindyebo (Izibongo for Chief Dalindyebo)

- Three Mpondo Children, Hugh Tracey

Ithaca litwele ibaketi (A Baca is carrying a bucket)

- Group of young Mpondo men, Hugh Tracey

Ihobe liyataka

- Group of young Mpondo married women, Composer unknown, Tracey, Hugh

Kauvele ubona (Appear and look)

- Group of young Mpondo married women, Hugh Tracey

  • 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

Abafazi bemka

- Group of young Mpondo married women, Composer unknown, Tracey, Hugh

IIphi ingubo yam? Isehla thini

- Group of Mpondo women, Composer unknown, Tracey, Hugh

Ibali

- Three Mpondo children, Composer unknown, Tracey, Hugh

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