Bathi abafana ndisandindazana ((Young men call me a beauty)
- Gcaleka women and girls, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Gcaleka women and 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/10962/150965 , vital:39023 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR062-06
- Description: The whole crowd of about 60 women and girls swayed from foot to foot as they sang with great enthusiasm.It is clearly a well known and much loved tune in this region. Drinking song with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Gcaleka women and 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/10962/150965 , vital:39023 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR062-06
- Description: The whole crowd of about 60 women and girls swayed from foot to foot as they sang with great enthusiasm.It is clearly a well known and much loved tune in this region. Drinking song with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ndibolekeni ibayi ndembathe madoda (Please, lend me a blanket to cover myself)
- Gcaleka women and girls, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Gcaleka women and 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/10962/150970 , vital:39024 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR062-07
- Description: Drinking songs are sung with great abandon, the women holding their hands above their heads to clap them. Drinking song with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Gcaleka women and 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/10962/150970 , vital:39024 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR062-07
- Description: Drinking songs are sung with great abandon, the women holding their hands above their heads to clap them. Drinking song with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
O-o Mashego
- 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/10962/189132 , vital:44819 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR195-05
- 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. "Oh-oh Mashego has won. He has won by driving the wizards away." 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/10962/189132 , vital:44819 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR195-05
- 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. "Oh-oh Mashego has won. He has won by driving the wizards away." Three girls post-initiation song with 2 drums, leg rattles and whistles
- 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
Yazula inkabi endxla
- Group of 7 young men (Performers), Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Group of 7 young men (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Kingwilliamstown f-za
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133569 , vital:36991 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR013-04
- Description: Group fighting song with clapping
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Group of 7 young men (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Kingwilliamstown f-za
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133569 , vital:36991 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR013-04
- Description: Group fighting song with clapping
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ikona into ezakwenzeka
- Group of 7 young men (Performers), Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Group of 7 young men (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Kingwilliamstown f-za
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133560 , vital:36990 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR013-03
- Description: Group fighting song with clapping
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Group of 7 young men (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Kingwilliamstown f-za
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133560 , vital:36990 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR013-03
- Description: Group fighting song with clapping
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
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
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
Umgaq' uphum' entabeni
- Group of Baca Men (Performers), Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Group of Baca Men (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Zulu , Africa South Africa Kingwilliamstown f-za
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133497 , vital:36983 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR012-12
- Description: Song sung when a wizard or witch is to be put to death
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Group of Baca Men (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Zulu , Africa South Africa Kingwilliamstown f-za
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133497 , vital:36983 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR012-12
- Description: Song sung when a wizard or witch is to be put to death
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ungewu
- Group of Baca Men (Performers), Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Group of Baca Men (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Zulu , Africa South Africa Kingwilliamstown f-za
- Language: Zulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133475 , vital:36981 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR012-10
- Description: Party song
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Group of Baca Men (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Zulu , Africa South Africa Kingwilliamstown f-za
- Language: Zulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133475 , vital:36981 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR012-10
- Description: Party song
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Wemb' ingcwaba
- Group of Baca Men (Performers), Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Group of Baca Men (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Zulu , Africa South Africa Kingwilliamstown f-za
- Language: Zulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133480 , vital:36982 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR012-11
- Description: Song sung when a wizard or witch is to be put to death
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Group of Baca Men (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Zulu , Africa South Africa Kingwilliamstown f-za
- Language: Zulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133480 , vital:36982 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR012-11
- Description: Song sung when a wizard or witch is to be put to death
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Amapoyisa ahlal' esangweni
- Group of Baca Men (Performers), Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Group of Baca Men (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Zulu , Africa South Africa Mahlabatini f-za
- Language: Zulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133452 , vital:36978 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR012-07
- Description: Wedding song with sticks
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Group of Baca Men (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Zulu , Africa South Africa Mahlabatini f-za
- Language: Zulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133452 , vital:36978 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR012-07
- Description: Wedding song with sticks
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Yakhal' ingane encanane
- Group of Baca Men (Performers), Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Group of Baca Men (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Zulu , Africa South Africa Mahlabatini f-za
- Language: Zulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133457 , vital:36979 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR012-08
- Description: Wedding song with sticks
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Group of Baca Men (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Zulu , Africa South Africa Mahlabatini f-za
- Language: Zulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133457 , vital:36979 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR012-08
- Description: Wedding song with sticks
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
U Mamtolo
- Group of Baca Men (Performers), Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Group of Baca Men (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Zulu , Africa South Africa Kingwilliamstown f-za
- Language: Zulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133470 , vital:36980 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR012-09
- Description: Wedding song with sticks
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Group of Baca Men (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Zulu , Africa South Africa Kingwilliamstown f-za
- Language: Zulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133470 , vital:36980 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR012-09
- Description: Wedding song with sticks
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Namhla kungabwe sautini tina (Today it's your turn. What shall we do)
- 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 , Africa South Africa Tabankulu f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136407 , vital:37373 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR030-07
- Description: This is an old fighting song. The Chief sang this with his leopard tail stick held aloft. Umrobo old fighting songs.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Group of elder Mpondo men and 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/10962/136407 , vital:37373 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR030-07
- Description: This is an old fighting song. The Chief sang this with his leopard tail stick held aloft. Umrobo old fighting songs.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
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 , Africa South Africa Tabankulu f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136398 , vital:37372 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR030-06
- 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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Group of elder Mpondo men and 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/10962/136398 , vital:37372 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR030-06
- 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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Kwanukimpi (The smell of war)
- Group of elderly Mpondo men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Group of elderly Mpondo men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Folk music , Africa South Africa TLusikisiki f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/150870 , vital:39014 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR061-13
- Description: This is an old fighting song with Ukuhoga cries which are made when a man leaps out from the group to do a short and a common practice amongst Nguni tribesmen. The song was sung by the older men of about 50 years and over. Ukuhoga - battle cries. Kwanukimpi old mens' dance.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Group of elderly Mpondo men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Folk music , Africa South Africa TLusikisiki f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/150870 , vital:39014 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR061-13
- Description: This is an old fighting song with Ukuhoga cries which are made when a man leaps out from the group to do a short and a common practice amongst Nguni tribesmen. The song was sung by the older men of about 50 years and over. Ukuhoga - battle cries. Kwanukimpi old mens' dance.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Abafazi pandle (Women should go outside the hut)
- Group of Gcaleka men and women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Group of Gcaleka men and women , 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/10962/150955 , vital:39021 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR062-04
- Description: Drinking parties in this region are usually held inside the huts as there is plenty of wind over the open downs, especially near the sea. The song calls on the women to leave the hut to the men, as they pass the beer around and sing their drinking songs. Drinking song with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Group of Gcaleka men and women , 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/10962/150955 , vital:39021 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR062-04
- Description: Drinking parties in this region are usually held inside the huts as there is plenty of wind over the open downs, especially near the sea. The song calls on the women to leave the hut to the men, as they pass the beer around and sing their drinking songs. Drinking song with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Nombindlela (A roadmaker)
- Group of Gcaleka women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Group of Gcaleka women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Folk music , Africa South Africa Willowvale f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151246 , vital:39043 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR063-12
- Description: The "raodmaker" refers to a man labouring on the local roads. During this song the 16 months old child on the back of one of the singers was clapping its small hands in time to the rhythms of the song which shows how soon small Africans begin to pick up their African music. Women's dance, with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Group of Gcaleka women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Folk music , Africa South Africa Willowvale f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151246 , vital:39043 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR063-12
- Description: The "raodmaker" refers to a man labouring on the local roads. During this song the 16 months old child on the back of one of the singers was clapping its small hands in time to the rhythms of the song which shows how soon small Africans begin to pick up their African music. Women's dance, with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957