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Adya moreyana

E kenia matsolo

  • 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
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  • Date Issued: 1963

E lesang goloya

  • 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
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  • Date Issued: 1963

Elele Pelepele uile luatle

Eya - eya, mani Boi

Homolela ngeka

Homolela ngwanaka

Iya-e

Ke ke mmela ke ke

  • Authors: Mashego, Barney (Chief) , 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/10962/188684 , vital:44776 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR195-03
  • Description: This district is plagued, they say, by men who come home from employment eleswhere, eat the food of their relatives until it is all finished without doing a stroke of work to help, and then disappear from pastures new, leaving their families starving. "The day we pounded earth, pounding it for the bearded. Those who come in putting their beards in the food." (i.e. doing no work to produce it, but eating it only). The meaning behind this song is that the lazy men desearve only pounded earth, not good grain to eat. Pounding song with mortar and three pestles
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  • Date Issued: 1963

Keng se

Lebelela moo. Part I and II

  • 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
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  • Date Issued: 1963

Mabolele kgoro

Makwidi

  • Authors: Mapulana men and 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/10962/188104 , vital:44723 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR194-06
  • Description: There is a song first, then a declamation by Williamu Lebyane at 2m 30s with he Siyavuma responses followed by a short song again at 5m 10s. The shricking and general noise all contributes to the pleasureable hysteria associated with this kind of activity. "Makwidi (Bulbul) perch on the bird lime so I can catch you." Bird lime is made from the fruit of a certain tree parasite which is usually found on the marula tree. It is first rolled and masticated in the month and then rolled onto a twig. The Bulbul referred to is the one numbered R-544 in the Roberts 'Birds of South Africa' and is widely distributed throughout Southern Africa. Divination - Siyavuma - game with 3 drums, open, pegged, single head
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  • Date Issued: 1963

Mawilu wei ushala limani

  • Authors: Mapulana men and 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/10962/188454 , vital:44755 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR194-10
  • Description: Matwilu is a man whose wife has deserted him and the people, sympathising with him, suggest he takes another one. The personal problems of well known people in the community are frequently aired in this way, thus creating a certain public opinion and bringing pressure to bear upon individuals to conform to the local pattern of correct behaviour. Drinking song with one drum
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  • Date Issued: 1963

Mokgowe

Ngaka

O-o Mashego

  • 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
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  • Date Issued: 1963

Segoko mmawelele we!

Shiwana Mpetasi

  • Authors: Mtungwa, Elias , 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/10962/189367 , vital:44841 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR195-15
  • Description: "Tu shalala" is the expression of delight when someone looks in through the door and sees a pot full of good food cookign and anticipates the meal. The singer of these two songs, with his bow, is well known in the district as an entertainer and beggar. He remarks the end of the second tune that he was too tired to go on. His Chitende bow is virtually the same as the Zulu Makweyana. Here in Pedi country it is played by men while in Zululand it is played only by women, and occasionally by young herd boys. Minstrel song with Chitende braced bow, resonated.
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  • Date Issued: 1963

Siavuma

  • Authors: Ndlovu, Nhongeni , 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/10962/188463 , vital:44756 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR194-11
  • Description: An add collection of old bones was picked up off the ground nearby to use for this sketch. The man taking the part of the diviner is a Shangaan man of the Gungunyana group many of whom cam from Mozambique to live among the Mapulana Pedi at the begining of the century. They still retain their Tsonga language but for many years both Pedi and Tsonga have become bilingual, understanding each others language without difficulty. Fortune telling sketch with bones
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  • Date Issued: 1963
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