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Asiyoyetha, lengoma yeye Badala (This song is not ours, it is Badala's)

- Young girls and boys of Durban location, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Young girls and boys of Durban location , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Africa South Africa Peddie f-sa
Language: Xhosa
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/149208 , vital:38815 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR059-07
Description: Circumcision song
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Deborah mntaka mama ngendi tshata nawe (Deborah, my dear, I would marry you had I the cattle)

- Young girls and boys of Durban location, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Young girls and boys of Durban location , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Africa South Africa Peddie f-sa
Language: Xhosa
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/149440 , vital:38852 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR059-10
Description: This song is performed before the wedding. A middle-aged man did a step-dance while the girls sang. The step-dance has no special significance but is performed on festive occassions. Wedding song with clapping.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Emonti Mama Siyazalana (East London mother, we are related)

- Young girls and boys of Durban location, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Young girls and boys of Durban location , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Africa South Africa Peddie f-sa
Language: Xhosa
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/149431 , vital:38851 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR059-09
Description: "Emonti" is the Xhosa name for East London. This song is performed before the wedding. A middle-aged man did a step-dance while the girls sang. The step-dance has no special significance but is performed on festive occassions. Wedding song with clapping.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Ngo, Ngo (Knock, knock, it is 7 o'clock)

- Young girls and boys of Durban location, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Young girls and boys of Durban location , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Africa South Africa Peddie f-sa
Language: Xhosa
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/149422 , vital:38850 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR059-08
Description: Roaring or Mbayizelo dance song, with clapping, stamping and roaring
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Tula Tula (Hush, hush)

- Young girls and boys of Durban location, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Young girls and boys of Durban location , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Africa South Africa Peddie f-sa
Language: Xhosa
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/149449 , vital:38853 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR059-11
Description: The singer (believed to be a coloured woman) changed the tune to a European one half way through. Her baby co-operated well. Lullaby.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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