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Bawo nilele na? (Fathers, are you sleeping)

- Fingo and Mfengu women of Tuku Location, Hugh Tracey

Bayile

- Villagers from Dabi's location near Peddie, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Villagers from Dabi's location near Peddie , 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/10962/149190 , vital:38813 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR059-05
  • Description: The words of this song make no sense. The people of this district are actually Fingo or Mfengu but speak Ngqika. Their ancestors were refugees from Shaka and came here from Swaziland over 120 years ago. The song is sung before initiation, when the young man is old enough to undergo his ordeal. Circumcision song with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

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

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

- Young girls and boys of Durban location, Hugh Tracey

Inxubaba ayiwelwa (The Fish River is not crossed)

- Women of Tuku's Location, Hugh Tracey

  • 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

Kwela siya hamba (Let's go)

- Young men of Tuku's Location, Hugh Tracey

Le Mantyi ikhona igweba kanzima (The Magistrate punishes severely)

- Young men and boys, Hugh Tracey

Matshoba

- Women and children of Dabi's location, Hugh Tracey

Mfana wayigqaba i metarmapkos (The boys put coloured earth on their faces)

- Young men and boys, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Young men and boys , 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/10962/150643 , vital:38992 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR060-10
  • Description: The roaring or grunting in this dance song is a sound peculiar to the Xhosa. The Luo and Giriyama of Kenya also do it and some of the East Coast Swahili, notably in their religious songs. It is possibly a vestigial remain of Arab influence acquired during the tribe's sojourn in East Africa some 500 years ago. Mbayizelo dance song, with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Molweni nonke (How do you do everybody)

- Young men of Tuku's Location, Hugh Tracey

Ndithi khawuthiye nkwenkwe ndala (Please dance, big boy)

- Young men and boys, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Young men and boys , 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/10962/150652 , vital:38993 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR060-11
  • Description: The roaring or grunting in this dance song is a sound peculiar to the Xhosa. The Luo and Giriyama of Kenya also do it and some of the East Coast Swahili, notably in their religious songs. It is possibly a vestigial remain of Arab influence acquired during the tribe's sojourn in East Africa some 500 years ago. Mbayizelo dance song, with clapping.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957

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

- Young girls and boys of Durban location, Hugh Tracey

Ngoma ya bantwana (Song for the children)

- Women of Kalana location, Hugh Tracey

No talili

- Young men of Tuku's Location, Hugh Tracey

Sitimela ga puma e Rhodesia (The train comes from Rhodesia)

- Young men and boys, Hugh Tracey

Tula Tula

- Iris Mjekula, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Iris Mjekula , 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/10962/149458 , vital:38854 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR059-12
  • Description: The singer (believed to be a coloured woman) changed the tune to a European one half way through.Her baby co-operated well. This tune was sung by a woman in traditional costume... The same baby, held in its mother's arms, was too charmed by the song to cry, so had to be tickled and patted by its mother into co-operation. Lullaby.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Tula Tula (Hush, hush)

- Young girls and boys of Durban location, Hugh Tracey

Ulo tixo omkhulu (God Almighty - The High God)

- Women of Tuku's Location, Hugh Tracey

  • 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/10962/135790 , vital:37299 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR026-06
  • Description: There is some doubt about the origin of this song. The singers claimed that it was a country song before Ntsikana used it as a hymn by the early part of the last century. Others affirm that Ntsikana himself composed it. In the 1700s Ntsikana prphesised that people would be coming from the North (the Fingos) and that the Whites would be coming with the Bible. The song was Ntsikana's own song and Rev. John Knox Bokwe set it in its present form, (information by his son J. T. Bokwe). During the song a man of about 35, danced a stamping dance. He was beautifully dressed in blanket edged with pale blue beads, wearing it like a train. He was also wearing several pounds worth of beads around his neck and torso. This song is sung at the weddings of the "Red Blanket" people. The dancer's beads were mostly in necklaces composed of strands of solid colour. He also wore double-stranded bracelets of pale blue and green beads. He carried a beautiful beaded animal skin, part of which had been sewn up to form a bag with a bead tasselled ornament. The blanket had rows and ornaments of pearl buttons sewn on it and was coloured with red ochre. Wedding song
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Uxam (The Iguana)

- Young men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Young men , 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/10962/150448 , vital:38977 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR060-07
  • Description: The singers were a very cheerful group of young Xhosas in ordinary shirts and trousers with occasionally a touch of gaiety in the form of a beaded cap, a gay knitted wollen girdle in stripes of pink and dark blue, with many large wollen tassels depending from it and rosettes of pearl buttons attached here and there. One boy had a shirt with Xhosa words printed on it. They all wore many gay plastic bangles on their wrists. A spectator standing by, dressed in a rather shabby old shirt and trousers had turned up his trousers at the bottoms to display a solid mass of dozens of strands of beads wound about his ankles-yellow, scarlet, blue (dark) and turquoise and apple green. A group fighting song, with sticks struck together.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957

Uyinkuku nje waibamba (Hold the fowl with your own hands)

- Men of Tuku's of Tuku Location, Hugh Tracey

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