Mamsadi msadi evamakguva (A fair woman is our woman)
- Nelson Siboza and the Montanas Brothers, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Nelson Siboza and the Montanas Brothers , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Pedi (African people) , Folk music , Africa South Africa Mataffin, Nelspruit, Northern Transvaal f-sa
- Language: Northern Sotho, Pedi, Sepedi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153250 , vital:39424 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR075-10
- Description: The youngsters sho sang this song represent a growing class of semi-detribalised boys born and brought up in an urban industrialised environment. Their main musical stimulus is a few gramophone records and distributed from Johannesburg and elsewhere and their own original setting of these songs or their imitation of the style does them credit. Party song with guitar.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Nelson Siboza and the Montanas Brothers , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Pedi (African people) , Folk music , Africa South Africa Mataffin, Nelspruit, Northern Transvaal f-sa
- Language: Northern Sotho, Pedi, Sepedi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153250 , vital:39424 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR075-10
- Description: The youngsters sho sang this song represent a growing class of semi-detribalised boys born and brought up in an urban industrialised environment. Their main musical stimulus is a few gramophone records and distributed from Johannesburg and elsewhere and their own original setting of these songs or their imitation of the style does them credit. Party song with guitar.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Adiyo jaxa kxaja nkwe
- Authors: Ncha, Frank , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1960
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Pedi (African people) , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Leydsdorp f-sa
- Language: Pedi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/189417 , vital:44845 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR195-19
- Description: "If you stone a leopard, it will kill you. Who are we going to dance with? There is nobody who can stone a leopard, Everybody says so." Chorus: "Adiyo." Dance song with autoharp, 2 small rubber headed drums and a rattle
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1960
- Authors: Ncha, Frank , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1960
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Pedi (African people) , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Leydsdorp f-sa
- Language: Pedi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/189417 , vital:44845 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR195-19
- Description: "If you stone a leopard, it will kill you. Who are we going to dance with? There is nobody who can stone a leopard, Everybody says so." Chorus: "Adiyo." Dance song with autoharp, 2 small rubber headed drums and a rattle
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1960
Mahlalela
- Ncha, Frank, Three girls, Tracey, Hugh
- Authors: Ncha, Frank , Three girls , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1960
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Pedi (African people) , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Leydsdorp f-sa
- Language: Pedi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/189386 , vital:44842 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR195-16
- Description: Who are we going to dance with? Today we dance with women because Mahlelela is very fond of women, refusing to dance with the girls. When Mahlalela dances in his big "Scotch" hat his head wobbles from side to side, and people laugh "Chekula, chekula. elewee." In the 1920's the autoharp was the most popular of foreign manufactured unstruments, several hundred thousand having been sold to Africans in South Africa alone. It then suffered a sharp decline and today in 1963 very few can be found except among the Pedi where a few are still played. Topical song with Autoharp, 2 small drums, made of tins with rubber heads and 1 rattle
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1960
- Authors: Ncha, Frank , Three girls , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1960
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Pedi (African people) , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Leydsdorp f-sa
- Language: Pedi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/189386 , vital:44842 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR195-16
- Description: Who are we going to dance with? Today we dance with women because Mahlelela is very fond of women, refusing to dance with the girls. When Mahlalela dances in his big "Scotch" hat his head wobbles from side to side, and people laugh "Chekula, chekula. elewee." In the 1920's the autoharp was the most popular of foreign manufactured unstruments, several hundred thousand having been sold to Africans in South Africa alone. It then suffered a sharp decline and today in 1963 very few can be found except among the Pedi where a few are still played. Topical song with Autoharp, 2 small drums, made of tins with rubber heads and 1 rattle
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1960
Sebedubedu
- Ncha, Frank, Three girls, Tracey, Hugh
- Authors: Ncha, Frank , Three girls , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1960
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Pedi (African people) , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Leydsdorp f-sa
- Language: Pedi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/189395 , vital:44843 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR195-17
- Description: My breatbone is painful. I went to my grandmother and told her. I was crying, I had no mother, no father. I sing about my breastbone and I feel better. Chorus: "Hlala mahlalela." Topical song with Autoharp, 2 small drums, made of tins with rubber heads and 1 rattle
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1960
- Authors: Ncha, Frank , Three girls , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1960
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Pedi (African people) , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Leydsdorp f-sa
- Language: Pedi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/189395 , vital:44843 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR195-17
- Description: My breatbone is painful. I went to my grandmother and told her. I was crying, I had no mother, no father. I sing about my breastbone and I feel better. Chorus: "Hlala mahlalela." Topical song with Autoharp, 2 small drums, made of tins with rubber heads and 1 rattle
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1960
Shuru Mmamutsumi
- Ncha, Frank, Three girls, Tracey, Hugh
- Authors: Ncha, Frank , Three girls , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1960
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Pedi (African people) , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Leydsdorp f-sa
- Language: Pedi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/189408 , vital:44844 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR195-18
- Description: A man had two wives, one old and the other young. There was jealousy among them. "Today is your last day." Shuru the younger sings, "why do you greet him as your man?" Then Shuru and Makuwe killed the elder, cut her in two, removed her legs, head abd arms, locked the door and set fire to the house. They tried to burn the whole house with the old woman in it, but the people came and said "Fetch the police." They put Makuwe inside the house and told Shuru to sweep the yard. But she dropped the broom and ran far away. The police could not find her. She went to Mpulutsi station and put on Shangaan clothes so as not to be recognised. The police told Shuru's brother "We will kill unless you tell us where she is." So he took them to Mpulutsi and showed her to them. She claimed to have been alone in the crime and Makuwe was discharged, "Did anyone see Shuru burn the house or kill the girl?" "No." She is discharged. This is said to have taken place in Feburary 1963. Chorus: 'Aghe Mangwaku.' Yes Mangwaku (Shuru's married name). This song was composed by Ncha basing his words, he claims, upon what he alleges was a true incident that happened only four months before. Topical song with Autoharp, 2 small drums, made of tins with rubber heads and 1 rattle
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1960
- Authors: Ncha, Frank , Three girls , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1960
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Pedi (African people) , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Leydsdorp f-sa
- Language: Pedi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/189408 , vital:44844 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR195-18
- Description: A man had two wives, one old and the other young. There was jealousy among them. "Today is your last day." Shuru the younger sings, "why do you greet him as your man?" Then Shuru and Makuwe killed the elder, cut her in two, removed her legs, head abd arms, locked the door and set fire to the house. They tried to burn the whole house with the old woman in it, but the people came and said "Fetch the police." They put Makuwe inside the house and told Shuru to sweep the yard. But she dropped the broom and ran far away. The police could not find her. She went to Mpulutsi station and put on Shangaan clothes so as not to be recognised. The police told Shuru's brother "We will kill unless you tell us where she is." So he took them to Mpulutsi and showed her to them. She claimed to have been alone in the crime and Makuwe was discharged, "Did anyone see Shuru burn the house or kill the girl?" "No." She is discharged. This is said to have taken place in Feburary 1963. Chorus: 'Aghe Mangwaku.' Yes Mangwaku (Shuru's married name). This song was composed by Ncha basing his words, he claims, upon what he alleges was a true incident that happened only four months before. Topical song with Autoharp, 2 small drums, made of tins with rubber heads and 1 rattle
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1960
Adya moreyana
- Group of 8 Pedi women and 2 men, Four Pedi women, Tracey, Hugh
- Authors: Group of 8 Pedi women and 2 men , Four Pedi women , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Pedi (African people) , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Bushbuck Ridge f-sa
- Language: Pedi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/189213 , vital:44827 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR195-10
- Description: They could not explain the significance of this statement and whether the drink or the song might have killed a weaker man! "A piglet lives on mud. Sing that I may dance. Thabakgolo is a great chief. He lived through this song." Drinking song with 2 drums and a rattle
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
- Authors: Group of 8 Pedi women and 2 men , Four Pedi women , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Pedi (African people) , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Bushbuck Ridge f-sa
- Language: Pedi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/189213 , vital:44827 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR195-10
- Description: They could not explain the significance of this statement and whether the drink or the song might have killed a weaker man! "A piglet lives on mud. Sing that I may dance. Thabakgolo is a great chief. He lived through this song." Drinking song with 2 drums and a rattle
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
E kenia matsolo
- Group of 10 young Pedi initiates (girls), Four Pedi women, Tracey, Hugh
- Authors: Group of 10 young Pedi initiates (girls) , Four Pedi women , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Pedi (African people) , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Bushbuck Ridge f-sa
- Language: Pedi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/189149 , vital:44821 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR195-07
- Description: Sung by the girls after the initiation ceremonies are over. They dress up in skins and wear small mirrors and go about among the houses and people, dancing and asking for presents. The initiation school lasts for two months and follows much the same lines as those of the Tswana. Many young Africans from Kenya southwards use metal whistles for their dances, blowing them continously as in this item; the result is deafening to the audience but apparently most enjoyable to the young who seem to be impervious to the noise. Three girls post-initiation song with 2 drums, leg rattles and whistles
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
- Authors: Group of 10 young Pedi initiates (girls) , Four Pedi women , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Pedi (African people) , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Bushbuck Ridge f-sa
- Language: Pedi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/189149 , vital:44821 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR195-07
- Description: Sung by the girls after the initiation ceremonies are over. They dress up in skins and wear small mirrors and go about among the houses and people, dancing and asking for presents. The initiation school lasts for two months and follows much the same lines as those of the Tswana. Many young Africans from Kenya southwards use metal whistles for their dances, blowing them continously as in this item; the result is deafening to the audience but apparently most enjoyable to the young who seem to be impervious to the noise. Three girls post-initiation song with 2 drums, leg rattles and whistles
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
E lesang goloya
- Group of 10 young Pedi initiates (girls), Four Pedi women, Tracey, Hugh
- Authors: Group of 10 young Pedi initiates (girls) , Four Pedi women , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Pedi (African people) , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Bushbuck Ridge f-sa
- Language: Pedi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/189141 , vital:44820 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR195-06
- Description: Sung by the girls after the initiation ceremonies are over. They dress up in skins and wear small mirrors and go about among the houses and people, dancing and asking for presents. The initiation school lasts for two months and follows much the same lines as those of the Tswana. Many young Africans from Kenya southwards use metal whistles for their dances, blowing them continously as in this item; the result is deafening to the audience but apparently most enjoyable to the young who seem to be impervious to the noise. "Stop bewitching people. Kerishe is gone." Kerishe is the name of a man who was driven away from Thabakgolo because it was thought that he disturbed (bewitched) people. Three girls post-initiation song with 2 drums, leg rattles and whistles
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
- Authors: Group of 10 young Pedi initiates (girls) , Four Pedi women , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Pedi (African people) , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Bushbuck Ridge f-sa
- Language: Pedi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/189141 , vital:44820 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR195-06
- Description: Sung by the girls after the initiation ceremonies are over. They dress up in skins and wear small mirrors and go about among the houses and people, dancing and asking for presents. The initiation school lasts for two months and follows much the same lines as those of the Tswana. Many young Africans from Kenya southwards use metal whistles for their dances, blowing them continously as in this item; the result is deafening to the audience but apparently most enjoyable to the young who seem to be impervious to the noise. "Stop bewitching people. Kerishe is gone." Kerishe is the name of a man who was driven away from Thabakgolo because it was thought that he disturbed (bewitched) people. Three girls post-initiation song with 2 drums, leg rattles and whistles
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
Elele Pelepele uile luatle
- Mapulana small boys and girls (under 12 years), Tracey, Hugh
- Authors: Mapulana small boys and girls (under 12 years) , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Pedi (African people) , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Bushbuck Ridge f-sa
- Language: Pedi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/188443 , vital:44754 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR194-09
- Description: Simple songs sung in the evening after food. Children's song with 2 drums and clapping
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
- Authors: Mapulana small boys and girls (under 12 years) , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Pedi (African people) , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Bushbuck Ridge f-sa
- Language: Pedi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/188443 , vital:44754 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR194-09
- Description: Simple songs sung in the evening after food. Children's song with 2 drums and clapping
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
Eya - eya, mani Boi
- Mapulana small boys and girls (under 12 years), Tracey, Hugh
- Authors: Mapulana small boys and girls (under 12 years) , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Pedi (African people) , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Bushbuck Ridge f-sa
- Language: Pedi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/188434 , vital:44753 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR194-08
- Description: Simple songs sung in the evening after food. The pitch rises throughout the song, a common phenomenon in many African songs. Children's song with 2 drums and clapping
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
- Authors: Mapulana small boys and girls (under 12 years) , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Pedi (African people) , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Bushbuck Ridge f-sa
- Language: Pedi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/188434 , vital:44753 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR194-08
- Description: Simple songs sung in the evening after food. The pitch rises throughout the song, a common phenomenon in many African songs. Children's song with 2 drums and clapping
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
Homolela ngeka
- Four Pedi women and a baby, Four Pedi women, Tracey, Hugh
- Authors: Four Pedi women and a baby , Four Pedi women , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Pedi (African people) , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Bushbuck Ridge f-sa
- Language: Pedi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/189244 , vital:44830 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR195-12
- Description: It is hard to decide whether lullabies such as this are meant to put the baby to sleep or merely to drown its crying with an even louder noise. "Keep quiet my girl. Your mother will soon return. She is gone to plant sweet potatoes. Keep quiet my girl, keep quiet." Lullaby
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
- Authors: Four Pedi women and a baby , Four Pedi women , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Pedi (African people) , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Bushbuck Ridge f-sa
- Language: Pedi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/189244 , vital:44830 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR195-12
- Description: It is hard to decide whether lullabies such as this are meant to put the baby to sleep or merely to drown its crying with an even louder noise. "Keep quiet my girl. Your mother will soon return. She is gone to plant sweet potatoes. Keep quiet my girl, keep quiet." Lullaby
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
Homolela ngwanaka
- Four Pedi women and a baby, Four Pedi women, Tracey, Hugh
- Authors: Four Pedi women and a baby , Four Pedi women , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Pedi (African people) , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Bushbuck Ridge f-sa
- Language: Pedi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/189265 , vital:44832 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR195-13
- Description: It is hard to decide whether lullabies such as this are meant to put the baby to sleep or merely to drown its crying with an even louder noise. "Keep my child. We shall go to Sabie. We shall eat bread, food for the whites. Keep quiet my child." (A different town is mentioned in each verse). Lullaby
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
- Authors: Four Pedi women and a baby , Four Pedi women , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Pedi (African people) , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Bushbuck Ridge f-sa
- Language: Pedi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/189265 , vital:44832 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR195-13
- Description: It is hard to decide whether lullabies such as this are meant to put the baby to sleep or merely to drown its crying with an even louder noise. "Keep my child. We shall go to Sabie. We shall eat bread, food for the whites. Keep quiet my child." (A different town is mentioned in each verse). Lullaby
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
Iya-e
- Mapulana women, Tracey, Hugh
- Authors: Mapulana women , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Pedi (African people) , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Bushbuck Ridge f-sa
- Language: Pedi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/188027 , vital:44719 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR194-05
- Description: The excited chatter of the girls and women taking part at the end of the first dance reflects the heightened emotions of the dance itself and the enjoyment of the moment, in this very simple dance form. Initiation dance for girls (after returning home), with 3 drums
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
- Authors: Mapulana women , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Pedi (African people) , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Bushbuck Ridge f-sa
- Language: Pedi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/188027 , vital:44719 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR194-05
- Description: The excited chatter of the girls and women taking part at the end of the first dance reflects the heightened emotions of the dance itself and the enjoyment of the moment, in this very simple dance form. Initiation dance for girls (after returning home), with 3 drums
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
Ke ke mmela ke ke
- Mashego, Barney (Chief), Four Pedi women, Tracey, Hugh
- Authors: Mashego, Barney (Chief) , Four Pedi women , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Pedi (African people) , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Bushbuck Ridge f-sa
- Language: Pedi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/188684 , vital:44776 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR195-03
- Description: This district is plagued, they say, by men who come home from employment eleswhere, eat the food of their relatives until it is all finished without doing a stroke of work to help, and then disappear from pastures new, leaving their families starving. "The day we pounded earth, pounding it for the bearded. Those who come in putting their beards in the food." (i.e. doing no work to produce it, but eating it only). The meaning behind this song is that the lazy men desearve only pounded earth, not good grain to eat. Pounding song with mortar and three pestles
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
- Authors: Mashego, Barney (Chief) , Four Pedi women , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Pedi (African people) , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Bushbuck Ridge f-sa
- Language: Pedi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/188684 , vital:44776 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR195-03
- Description: This district is plagued, they say, by men who come home from employment eleswhere, eat the food of their relatives until it is all finished without doing a stroke of work to help, and then disappear from pastures new, leaving their families starving. "The day we pounded earth, pounding it for the bearded. Those who come in putting their beards in the food." (i.e. doing no work to produce it, but eating it only). The meaning behind this song is that the lazy men desearve only pounded earth, not good grain to eat. Pounding song with mortar and three pestles
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
Keng se
- Mashego, Barney (Chief), Pedi women and one old man, Tracey, Hugh
- Authors: Mashego, Barney (Chief) , Pedi women and one old man , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Pedi (African people) , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Bushbuck Ridge f-sa
- Language: Pedi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/188664 , vital:44774 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR195-02
- Description: This is a game where 10 small stones, fruits etc. are placed in a row and one at a time are taken away until all are removed. Each numeral has an idea associated with it, such as in English - "Three, three - te riders, Two, two, - the lily-white boys, etc." "What is this? It is Manthaledi Tsela. What is this? It is the son of Mararela le tsela. What is this? There too there is nothing. What is this? Take it away!
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
- Authors: Mashego, Barney (Chief) , Pedi women and one old man , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Pedi (African people) , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Bushbuck Ridge f-sa
- Language: Pedi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/188664 , vital:44774 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR195-02
- Description: This is a game where 10 small stones, fruits etc. are placed in a row and one at a time are taken away until all are removed. Each numeral has an idea associated with it, such as in English - "Three, three - te riders, Two, two, - the lily-white boys, etc." "What is this? It is Manthaledi Tsela. What is this? It is the son of Mararela le tsela. What is this? There too there is nothing. What is this? Take it away!
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
Lebelela moo. Part I and II
- Group of 8 Pedi women and 1 man, Four Pedi women, Tracey, Hugh
- Authors: Group of 8 Pedi women and 1 man , Four Pedi women , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Pedi (African people) , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Bushbuck Ridge f-sa
- Language: Pedi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/189159 , vital:44822 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR195-08
- Description: The drums are made in the district of Marula trees. "Look here, I am waiting for a parcel. It is the blood of my husband, my husband Tshimisdo. My husband Tshimisdo, it comes with the train." The parcel is sent by her husband who is working away from home. The parcel is the result of the 'sweet of his brow', his 'blood' as they say. Party dance for men and women with two drums, small drum Morupa o munyane, large drum Morupa o mugulo and a rattle
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
- Authors: Group of 8 Pedi women and 1 man , Four Pedi women , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Pedi (African people) , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Bushbuck Ridge f-sa
- Language: Pedi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/189159 , vital:44822 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR195-08
- Description: The drums are made in the district of Marula trees. "Look here, I am waiting for a parcel. It is the blood of my husband, my husband Tshimisdo. My husband Tshimisdo, it comes with the train." The parcel is sent by her husband who is working away from home. The parcel is the result of the 'sweet of his brow', his 'blood' as they say. Party dance for men and women with two drums, small drum Morupa o munyane, large drum Morupa o mugulo and a rattle
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
Mabolele kgoro
- Mapulana women, Tracey, Hugh
- Authors: Mapulana women , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Pedi (African people) , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Bushbuck Ridge f-sa
- Language: Pedi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/188021 , vital:44718 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR194-04
- Description: The excited chatter of the girls and women taking part at the end of the first dance reflects the heightened emotions of the dance itself and the enjoyment of the moment, in this very simple dance form. Initiation dance for girls (after returning home), with 3 drums
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
- Authors: Mapulana women , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Pedi (African people) , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Bushbuck Ridge f-sa
- Language: Pedi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/188021 , vital:44718 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR194-04
- Description: The excited chatter of the girls and women taking part at the end of the first dance reflects the heightened emotions of the dance itself and the enjoyment of the moment, in this very simple dance form. Initiation dance for girls (after returning home), with 3 drums
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
Makwidi
- Mapulana men and women, Tracey, Hugh
- Authors: Mapulana men and women , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Pedi (African people) , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Bushbuck Ridge f-sa
- Language: Pedi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/188104 , vital:44723 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR194-06
- Description: There is a song first, then a declamation by Williamu Lebyane at 2m 30s with he Siyavuma responses followed by a short song again at 5m 10s. The shricking and general noise all contributes to the pleasureable hysteria associated with this kind of activity. "Makwidi (Bulbul) perch on the bird lime so I can catch you." Bird lime is made from the fruit of a certain tree parasite which is usually found on the marula tree. It is first rolled and masticated in the month and then rolled onto a twig. The Bulbul referred to is the one numbered R-544 in the Roberts 'Birds of South Africa' and is widely distributed throughout Southern Africa. Divination - Siyavuma - game with 3 drums, open, pegged, single head
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
- Authors: Mapulana men and women , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Pedi (African people) , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Bushbuck Ridge f-sa
- Language: Pedi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/188104 , vital:44723 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR194-06
- Description: There is a song first, then a declamation by Williamu Lebyane at 2m 30s with he Siyavuma responses followed by a short song again at 5m 10s. The shricking and general noise all contributes to the pleasureable hysteria associated with this kind of activity. "Makwidi (Bulbul) perch on the bird lime so I can catch you." Bird lime is made from the fruit of a certain tree parasite which is usually found on the marula tree. It is first rolled and masticated in the month and then rolled onto a twig. The Bulbul referred to is the one numbered R-544 in the Roberts 'Birds of South Africa' and is widely distributed throughout Southern Africa. Divination - Siyavuma - game with 3 drums, open, pegged, single head
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
Mawilu wei ushala limani
- Mapulana men and women, Tracey, Hugh
- Authors: Mapulana men and women , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Pedi (African people) , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Bushbuck Ridge f-sa
- Language: Pedi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/188454 , vital:44755 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR194-10
- Description: Matwilu is a man whose wife has deserted him and the people, sympathising with him, suggest he takes another one. The personal problems of well known people in the community are frequently aired in this way, thus creating a certain public opinion and bringing pressure to bear upon individuals to conform to the local pattern of correct behaviour. Drinking song with one drum
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
- Authors: Mapulana men and women , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Pedi (African people) , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Bushbuck Ridge f-sa
- Language: Pedi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/188454 , vital:44755 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR194-10
- Description: Matwilu is a man whose wife has deserted him and the people, sympathising with him, suggest he takes another one. The personal problems of well known people in the community are frequently aired in this way, thus creating a certain public opinion and bringing pressure to bear upon individuals to conform to the local pattern of correct behaviour. Drinking song with one drum
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
Mokgowe
- Mapulana men and women (Madika initiated young men and women), Tracey, Hugh
- Authors: Mapulana men and women (Madika initiated young men and women) , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Pedi (African people) , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Bushbuck Ridge f-sa
- Language: Pedi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/187993 , vital:44715 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR194-01
- Description: They approach from the distance with the Madika initiated, and then start a circle dance. Initiation song and pipe dance, with 4 metal pipes and 3 drums Moropa o munyana and Moropa o mkula, 1 bushbuck horn and 1 Kudu horn
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
- Authors: Mapulana men and women (Madika initiated young men and women) , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Pedi (African people) , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Bushbuck Ridge f-sa
- Language: Pedi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/187993 , vital:44715 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR194-01
- Description: They approach from the distance with the Madika initiated, and then start a circle dance. Initiation song and pipe dance, with 4 metal pipes and 3 drums Moropa o munyana and Moropa o mkula, 1 bushbuck horn and 1 Kudu horn
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963