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Haopala Pitsi

Hayitsho Nongongobala

  • Authors: Young Gcaleka boys 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/10962/151264 , vital:39045 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR063-14
  • Description: The words of the dance are apparently meanigless except for the title. When the young herd boys returned with their cattle, sheep and goats to the village they joined in the party and sang these two songs which are typical of the present day type of dance songs used in the district. Young people's dance song and Umtshongolo dance with clapping.
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He re bamang

He re bamang

He ro ḽa murumbudane

Hee ka bale (There are the horsemen, there they are!)

Heehee ndithe gebelele

  • Authors: Group of Qwathi women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Herbalists , Africa South Africa Engcobo f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134841 , vital:37211 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0022-02
  • Description: In the course of this divination song, they broke off for a woman to call out after the fashion of the diviners, to which everyone clapped their hands replying "siya vuma", "we agree". Song for diviner's ceremony with clapping.
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Here, Mwana-we

Here, mwana-we

  • Authors: Sithole, Simon Mafiru , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Topical song , Mbira , Africa Zimbabwe Mt. Selinda f-rh
  • Language: Ndau
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/132055 , vital:36792 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR003-11 , Field card no. H1B-9
  • Description: "Hey, child-first finish your digging. The mysteries have been listening for me. Mistakes in dancing do not carry as far as home. Listen to Mutanda drum, but first finish your grinding." Greeting child of the Mudzatsa Tree. There is a double meaning in ngoma mutanda. In the first instance it means a 'mystery or 'magic' - an unknown force, and in the second the plain literal translation of the 'Mutanda drum', a conical hollow wooden drum made of Mutanda wood. "Child of Mudzatsa Tree", refers to the eerie noise of the cracking beanpods of this tree, especially at night, and a person called by this name is only half a creature, a sprite or gnome. Three topical songs with mbira dza WaNdau and deze resonator.
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Hiho

  • Authors: Group of Sotho men and small Sotho boys (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Sotho , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-za
  • Language: Southern Sotho
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134205 , vital:37099 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR018-06
  • Description: This time the mouse-hunting somg was performed by the young hunters themselves. It appears they hunt 2 types of field mouse, one plain, the other stripped. The first song "Hiho" was for the plain rats, the second "Khoana" says: "We are driving the striped rats along the banks towards our friends who are waiting for them."
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Hiho

Himai Kamamane (Grand-mother of Kamamane)

  • Authors: Rafael Ubisi , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Africa Mozambique Vilanculos f-mz
  • Language: Tswa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136188 , vital:37347 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR029-01
  • Description: With imitations of fowls, dogs and cats. Humorous song with Mbira dza waNdau with bell and 3 manuals.
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Hiyo woye, Busai-we

Hla unakwahamba (Who gave you that food?)

  • Authors: Group of young Mpondo boys , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Lusikisiki f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136569 , vital:37392 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR032-05
  • Description: The performers were all about 18 or thereabouts. This group wore red blankets with rows of white braid on the girls' skirts. The girls wore very attractive circlets of beads on the head, passing over the forehead and bead chin straps, also a head band passing over the top of the head and round the base of the skull. The sexes were divided dancing at right angles to each other and the girls kept up a shrill high descant. The men danced in a circle as tightly packed sardines. The main feature of the boys' costume were the immense number of strands of beads wound about the hips to a depth of 18 or more. The edges of the blankets were also beaded. The girls also wore three swathings of beads around the hips. 3 Gubura dances for young men.
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Hlakanyana (The wonderful child)

  • Authors: Nolokoza , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Willowvale f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136091 , vital:37336 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR028-07
  • Description: At the begining of the story, a hen which had been walking about between and over the closely packed women in the hut (who were all sitting on the ground) rushed out again, cackling. The story teller can be heard cracking her fingers, snapping them,clapping her hands and so on. Her gestures were very expressive. The story is about a wonderful child. The very day he was born, he said: "Give me my trousers, I'm off to the mines." On the way he met a white man who was looking for 40 boys. "All right, my boss, here I am." - So he was given 40 sickles and in a trice he had reaped all the corn and came back for more work. He did otehr wonderful things and his employer then began to realise he would have to pay him 40 salaries! So he employer laid various traps for him, like digging a hole for him to fall into so that he should be buried alive, but he evaded them all. And in the end he was paid in full. - "a lump sum" and went off home with just reward. A story.
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Hlungulu upeteni (Crow, what are you carrying?)

Hlungulwana (A small hawk)

  • Authors: Group of Xhosa women and Notembile and Nopenrose , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Willowvale f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136069 , vital:37334 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR028-04
  • Description: The words are simple and repetitive, the 'magic' of these quite songs for the Xhosa lies in thier repetitive and drowsy charm,conducing to dreaming, either waking or asleep. Self-delectative song with Hadi musical bow, unbraced, open and resonated.
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Hu na dzhomela

Hu na Nya mu takala ngo u ḽa

Icamagilivumile (Thank you for what you have done)

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