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Bayeza Kusasa

- Nonkonyane, Siganeko, Mpondo and Sotho men, Composer unknown, Tracey, Hugh

Hlungulu uphetheni

- Nonkonyane, Siganeko, Mpondo men, Composer unknown, Tracey, Hugh

Icamagolivumile

- Nonkonyane, Siganeko, Mpondo and Sotho men, Composer unknown, Tracey, Hugh

Ingoboyama boke

- Mpondo Men and Women, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Izibongo zika Botha Sigcau

- Usukude uqnasa imbongi, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Kamiyo

- Ntshangase, Mildred, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Nokwenda

- Kude, Bamba, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Kude, Bamba , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1957-05-22
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Lusikisiki f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/228316 , vital:49544 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT424-L45 , Research no. L1T19
  • Description: Song, accompanied by a concertina, about someone who is going to get married.
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Yeapina lekosi

- Khotso, Mpondo Men and Women, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Yeapina lekosi

- Khotso, Mpondo Men and Women, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Lamnandi ugolohlanq

- Citaumvano, Nomaswiti, Tracey, Hugh

Mangebeza

- Citaumvano, Nomaswiti, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Citaumvano, Nomaswiti , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1957-05-21
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Lusikisiki f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/228239 , vital:49536 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT420-L41 , Research no. L1S11
  • Description: A topical song, played on guitar, about the woman who grinds the grain used to prepare the beer.
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Ndiboleke ingubo ndabate ndiyagodola

- Citaumvano, Nomaswiti, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Citaumvano, Nomaswiti , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1957-05-21
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Lusikisiki f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/228252 , vital:49537 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT420-L41 , Research no. L1S12
  • Description: A topical song, played on guitar, about someone asking to borrow a blanket because he/she is cold.
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Shiya bantwana nosela ingavin

- Citaumvano, Nomaswiti, Uvakutsiwo, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Citaumvano, Nomaswiti , Uvakutsiwo , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1957-05-21
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Lusikisiki f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/228257 , vital:49538 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT420-L41 , Research no. L1S13
  • Description: A topical song instructing someone to leave the children alone and to go and drink "gavin", played on guitar.
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Ukulalubokile

- Citaumvano, Nomaswiti, Tracey, Hugh

Bayeza kusasa (They are coming tomorrow)

- Group of Mpondo and Sotho men led by Siganeko Nonkonyana, Hugh Tracey

Buzaufazi zipina inkomo (Ask the woman where the cattle are)

- Group of Mpondo men and 3 girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of Mpondo men and 3 girls , 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/10962/136784 , vital:37421 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR033-14
  • Description: The singers all lay flat on their stomachs, singing into their cupped hands, which were slightly vibrated. The leader was singing in a forced voice, which appears to be a local fashion in this kind of the song. Dance song for evening dance for young women.
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Hla unakwahamba (Who gave you that food?)

- Group of young Mpondo boys, Hugh Tracey

  • 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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Hlungulu upeteni (Crow, what are you carrying?)

- Siganeko Nonkonyana and group of Mpondo men, Hugh Tracey

Icamagilivumile (Thank you for what you have done)

- Group of Mpondo and Sotho men led by Siganeko Nonkonyana, Hugh Tracey

Ihobe liyataka (Dove, don't run away, don't hop about)

- 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 Lusikisiki f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136660 , vital:37402 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR033-01
  • Description: The clapping was done by striking the open palm of the right hand on the fist of the left, or cupped fingers of the left hand. This is called Umngcutsho. Part song with clapping.
  • Full Text: false
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