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Intonjane

Intsimbi ka Ntiskana (Ntsikana's bells and Ntsikana's song)

  • Authors: Iqela Labavumi bakwa Zwelitsha (Zwelitsha Choral Society) , Bokwe, S. T. , Bekwe, J. K. , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Music--Religious aspects , Africa South Africa King Williams Town f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135727 , vital:37293 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR026-01
  • Description: Ntsikana was the first Christian convert of the Xhosa tribes. "The song was chanted by Ntsikana regularly at dawn of day, standing at his hut door, summoning the people to morning prayer. As people gathered they joined in the strains, adding different parts. Extracts taken from the songbook "Amaculo ase Lovedale.", published by the Lovedale Press.- It is notable that Ntsikana had never heard a church bell. The tune is of African origin. Religious descriptive chant and song.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Intsizwa zombango bekinduka pantsi (Quarrelling youths, put down your sticks)

Inxubaba ayiwelwa (The Fish River is not crossed)

  • Authors: Women of Tuku's Location , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Wedding music , Africa South Africa Peddie f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135803 , vital:37300 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR026-07
  • Description: The song is sung during a wedding by either party, the bride's or groom's. Two men performed a step-dance, clicking their heels. This group of Mfengu at Tuku's Location belongs to the Radebe clan. Wedding song
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Isele (The rapacious frog)

  • Authors: Nosayini , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Storytelling , Africa South Africa Willowvale f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136179 , vital:37346 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR028-13
  • Description: Recorded in a Gcaleka hut. Most huts have one small window, about the size of a ship's porthole, but this had none. There was once a frog who swallowed a baby and took it down to the river.- It gave the baby to another frog, who in turn swallowed it. The second frog took the baby back to its village. It met some boys on the way to whom it explained what it was going to do. So it gave back the baby and the people gave it a cow. The next morning it went back and asked for another cow which the people gave. But when it asked for a third cow on the following morning the people grew hungry and killed it. The name of the headman at whose kraal we recorded was KRIKRI ZWELILLUNGILE HLOKOMILE. Although the story-teller sang a song during the course of the story, the others did not sing a refrain, which is commonly the African practice. A story.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Isele (The rapacious frog)

  • Authors: Nosayini , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Storytelling , Africa South Africa Willowvale f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136170 , vital:37345 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR028-13
  • Description: Recorded in a Gcaleka hut. Most huts have one small window, about the size of a ship's porthole, but this had none. There was once a frog who swallowed a baby and took it down to the river.- It gave the baby to another frog, who in turn swallowed it. The second frog took the baby back to its village. It met some boys on the way to whom it explained what it was going to do. So it gave back the baby and the people gave it a cow. The next morning it went back and asked for another cow which the people gave. But when it asked for a third cow on the following morning the people grew hungry and killed it. The name of the headman at whose kraal we recorded was KRIKRI ZWELILLUNGILE HLOKOMILE. Although the story-teller sang a song during the course of the story, the others did not sing a refrain, which is commonly the African practice. A story.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Isicathula

Isicathula (Boots)

  • Authors: Jury Mpelho , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Grahamstown f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135880 , vital:37307 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR027-01
  • Description: A very lively gay little number. The performers danced their own version of a gumboot dance. Town dance with drum and electric guitar.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Ithaca litwele ibaketi (A Baca is carrying a bucket)

Itileni

  • Authors: Group of Xhosa "amakwenkwe" young men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Africa South Africa Kentani f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/149134 , vital:38807 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR059-01
  • Description: "You can look down on the train that goes from Mazeppa to Natal." Sung by boys on their way to the Mtshosho dance. The lilt is very infectious. "Amakwenkwe", young men, are under the approximate age 18-20 years. They are so called before they have been initiated and achieved full manhood. A walking song.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Izibongo dalindyebo (Izibongo for Chief Dalindyebo)

Izibongo dalindyebo (Izibongo for Chief Dalindyebo)

Izibongo zika Botha Sigcau (Praises of the Paramount Chief of the Mpondo)

  • Authors: Usukude Uqnasa Imbongi , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Praise , Africa South Africa Lusikisiki f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136425 , vital:37375 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR031-02
  • Description: The cries at the end are equivalent to the Zulu "Bayete." "Hail." Praises with laudatory cries.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Izobongo zika ndlinkulu (Praises of the Chief's wife)

  • Authors: Group of elderly Mpondo women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Praise , Africa South Africa Lusikisiki f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136434 , vital:37376 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR031-03
  • Description: The leader of this group was praising the Chief's wife. She also paraded up and down in front of the singers mimicking the actions of milking a cow. It was explained that this meant she had been given a cow.- and every now and then she looked round and waved her arm as if to frighten off a thief. Praise song and chant with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Jamani (Go to Germany)

  • 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/10962/136551 , vital:37390 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR032-03
  • Description: The group of young men performing this song, sang each into his capped hand, vibrating it slightly as he did so. They danced in a very closely packed circle. 3 Gubura dances for young men.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Jomjom (A pot full of beer)

  • Authors: Group of Xhosa women , 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/10962/136160 , vital:37344 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR028-12
  • Description: The singers also said:- "Gallop away quickly, horse of Sochongane." Whether from or to the party where the pot was full of beer, was not clear.- Sochongane was one of the men living nearby.- JOMJOM also means, they explained, the galloping of a horse. Drinking song with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Jomjom ndaliwa yindoda ngenxa yako (Jomjom, I have been divorced by my husband on your account)

  • Authors: Nozikencele and Gcaleka 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/10962/150960 , vital:39022 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR062-05
  • Description: Jomjom is a familiar name for the local drink, millet beer. It is on account of her love of beer that she lost her husband, so the song goes, in time honoured fashion the world over. The song is an excellent round with each girl singing her own variations. Drinking song with Ikinki mouth resonated musical bow.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Kamiyo (The story of Kamiyo)

  • Authors: Mildred Ntshangase , 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/10962/136651 , vital:37401 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR032-15
  • Description: This story was beautifully told. There was once a rich old man who had no wife. So he thought and thought, and then went down to the river, cut down a tree, took a piece of soft wood and made it into a woman. He gave it arms and legs, and a head. And it was a woman. Then he gave her dresses and said to her: "When you are spoken to, you must say you are the daughter of Mfulwe the stream." And she was a very beautiful woman. Now when the young men saw her, they said: "How can such an old man have such a beautiful young wife. We will take her away from him." So they took her away from him and took her her to their kraal. Now the old man had great many cattle and pigeons. And he told 2 of the pigeons to fly to the kraal and say what he told them to say. So they flew and they flew and went to the kraal and said to her: "Kamiyo, Kamiyo, give us your apron." So the people at the kraal said: "Oh, give them your apron, let them have it." So the pigeons flew back with it. Then the old man sent them back again, and they came to the kraal and sang: "Kamiyo, Kamiyo, give us your clothes." So the people at the kraal said: "Let them have your clothes and leave us in peace." So the pigeons took the clothes. But the old man sent them again, this time to take away her headdress. Then the people said: "Let them have your beads and your headcloth, it's the woman we want." The old man sent the pigeons back yet again, and this time they flew into the kraal and sang: Kamiyo, Kamiyo, give us your life. And so singing, they sat on her lap, picked out her brains and took her life. So the lovely Kamiyo crumbled away: first her arms and then her legs and then her head. And her body rolled down to the stream where she turned back into the tree again. Story.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Kauvele ubona (Appear and look)

  • Authors: Group of young Mpondo married 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/10962/136679 , vital:37404 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR033-03
  • Description: When the women clapped their hands they all chanted: "I left my lover." It appears that one woman can break in with her own song, thus taking over from another woman. Women's party song with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Khawuxheliso wakalo haha (Will you say what is wrong, ha ha)

  • Authors: Group of Qwathi women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Tembu (African people) , Field recordings , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Engcobo f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139583 , vital:37753 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR049-04
  • Description: In the middle of this song the headman and the owner of the hut got up, delievered a rousing speech and stepped back to his place on the left of the door, very pleased with himself. After that the woman resumed singing with renewed vigour, stood up and accompanied themselves by a double stamp instead of the single stamp usually heard further south. Topical song sung in the evening with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1957
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