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You must be joking

- Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani, Tracey, Andrew T N

She is my girl

- Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani, Tracey, Andrew T N

Angidlali nawe

- Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani, Tracey, Andrew T N

Magwala ndini

- Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani, Tracey, Andrew T N

Johannesburg

- Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani, Tracey, Andrew T N

Deep in love

- Monwabisi Gladstone Saban, Andrew Tracey, Mzwandile, Fatyi and Nkosinati, Tracey, Andrew T N

A few silver coins is what they need

- Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani, Tracey, Andrew T N

Kwanukimpi (The smell of war)

- Group of elder Mpondo men and women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of elder Mpondo men and women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136398 , vital:37372
  • Description: The Mpondo groups of dancers move in a very tightly packed formation, holding their sticks aloft in the right hand. The men in the front rank performed Badumisa, or praise of the chief, advancing up to him and performing great leaps. Umrobo old fighting songs.
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Ulo tixo omkhulu (God Almighty - The High God)

- Women of Tuku's Location, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Women of Tuku's Location , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Wedding music
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135790 , vital:37299
  • Description: There is some doubt about the origin of this song. The singers claimed that it was a country song before Ntsikana used it as a hymn by the early part of the last century. Others affirm that Ntsikana himself composed it. In the 1700s Ntsikana prphesised that people would be coming from the North (the Fingos) and that the Whites would be coming with the Bible. The song was Ntsikana's own song and Rev. John Knox Bokwe set it in its present form, (information by his son J. T. Bokwe). During the song a man of about 35, danced a stamping dance. He was beautifully dressed in blanket edged with pale blue beads, wearing it like a train. He was also wearing several pounds worth of beads around his neck and torso. This song is sung at the weddings of the "Red Blanket" people. The dancer's beads were mostly in necklaces composed of strands of solid colour. He also wore double-stranded bracelets of pale blue and green beads. He carried a beautiful beaded animal skin, part of which had been sewn up to form a bag with a bead tasselled ornament. The blanket had rows and ornaments of pearl buttons sewn on it and was coloured with red ochre. Wedding song
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Makube njalo

- Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani, Tracey, Andrew T N

Nai puma kuma kuba ngii ndoda

- Nqwane Mbontyi, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Nqwane Mbontyi , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136633 , vital:37398
  • Description: The performer was quite a humorist in his way, and had a most infectious gaiety, much appreciated by the crown. His name Nqwane Mbonity means "Just like a bean".- He wore a characteristically Mpondo hairdo, the hair cropped close except for the forelock which was allowed to grow long, then plaited into several strings, which were all beeswaxed together into one lock, plastered to the forehead, or reaching down like a small horn to the level of the eyebrows. Tune on the harmonica.
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Living in ghetto

- Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani, Tracey, Andrew T N

Silindile

- Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani, Tracey, Andrew T N

Title not specified

- Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani, Tracey, Andrew T N

Where is my brother

- Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani, Tracey, Andrew T N

Umgquzo (Where is my blanket? It is in the forest)

- Group of Mpondo women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of Mpondo women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136370 , vital:37369
  • 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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Yazula inkabi endxla

- Group of 7 young men (Performers), Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey

Ndikhokhela uJehova

- Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani, Tracey, Andrew T N

Baleka Bonyongo

- Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani, Tracey, Andrew T N

Lihlala lingibuza lele gama lami

- Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani, Tracey, Andrew T N

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