Abafazi pandle (Women should go outside the hut)
- Authors: Group of Gcaleka men and women , 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/10962/150955 , vital:39021 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR062-04
- Description: Drinking parties in this region are usually held inside the huts as there is plenty of wind over the open downs, especially near the sea. The song calls on the women to leave the hut to the men, as they pass the beer around and sing their drinking songs. Drinking song with clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Amai anda nena mangwila-ngwila (My mother always told me not to touch anything in the house)
- Authors: Josani Phiri , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Songs, Chewa , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Dowa f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160790 , vital:40544 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR099-04
- Description: On hearing his song played back to him, Josani Phiri held his head in his hands and shook it unbelievingly during the whole playing. Self delectative song with Bongo board zither.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Amaseyibokwe athengwa ngemali eninzi (For a certain type of socks you pay dearly)
- Authors: Gcaleka boys and 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/10962/151135 , vital:39033 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR063-07
- Description: The harmonica or mouth organ is a cheap and useful instrument to the Gcaleka who manage to produce a number of very simple repetitive tunes for accompanying their dances by this means. Mtstosho dance song, with harmonica.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Atshakongwe wamwe muno kuwala kwawo (The women of this country all wear the same kind of dress)
- Authors: Five Nyasa men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Songs, Chewa , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Likoma f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160804 , vital:40547 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR099-06
- Description: The drum was played with a stick in the left hand tapping on the side of the drum alternately with the head. The right hand kept up the rythm in the usual way. During this lively performnace the bottle player shattered his bottle into fragments, continuing to beat the neck of the beat which remained in his hand until that too disintegrated under the blows of the six inch nail. At the end of the first item the player dashed off to a nearby hut and produced the next best substitute, a new hoe blade. This recording was made by Nyasa workers at a Citrus Estate near Nelspruit, Eastern Transvaal. Party dance with double headed drum, concertina and bottle.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Bam! Mfana kabanina undenzenzima (Bam! Whose son has made me pregnant)
- Authors: Group of Gcaleka women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Folk music , Africa South Africa Willowvale f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151237 , vital:39042 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR063-11
- Description: This song, sung without a trace of shyness, rather indicated a social state of affairs which was an accepted fact. It was not possible to obtain the true history behind the words and quite likely they contain an allusion of some local romance rather than to a local tragedy. Women's dance, with clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Bathi abafana ndisandindazana ((Young men call me a beauty)
- Authors: Gcaleka women and 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/10962/150965 , vital:39023 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR062-06
- Description: The whole crowd of about 60 women and girls swayed from foot to foot as they sang with great enthusiasm.It is clearly a well known and much loved tune in this region. Drinking song with clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Bayathetha abantwana ndinendaba (Children are speaking because I have news)
- Authors: Gcaleka boys and 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/10962/151224 , vital:39041 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR063-10
- Description: The girl playing this mouth bow whistles out of the side of her mouth as well as resonating the notes in the usual manner. She used the open string and a stopped note, stopping it with her thumbnail and first finger. The use of this indigenious instrument and its style of music explains the ease with which Gcaleka people take to the small concertina. The harmonies produced in the mouth being on the true harmonic series makes the transition to the concertina a simple matter for simple tunes. Notes of the bow, 292 and 260. Mtshotsho dance for boys and girls with Ikinki mouth resonated musical bow.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Chigwinini chikuko mana nawo (A man with 2 wives has no wife)
- Authors: Ruben Tankadi Mbuluwundi and group of 5 Tumbuka men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Malawi , Tumbuka (African people)--Music , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Rumpi f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/140179 , vital:37844 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR054-02
- Description: If a man has 2 wives they are jealous of each other; when he goes to see the one, she says: "Go away to your other wife, he goes to see the one, she says: " I a, not your wife-go and see the other one." So in the end he has no wife and doesn't know where to go. This composition is not unlike a Russian folk song. Humorous song.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Chikulamayembe Gondwe
- Authors: Alick Mpusi Mutali and Tumbuka/Henga men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Malawi , Tumbuka (African people)--Music , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Livingstone f-za
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/140247 , vital:37854 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR054-09
- Description: Chief Chikulamayembe Gondwe is the Paramount Chief of the Henga people in northern Nyasaland- as a great man by men of his tribe. Praise song.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Hayitsho Nongongobala
- Authors: Young Gcaleka boys and 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/10962/151264 , vital:39045 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR063-14
- Description: The words of the dance are apparently meanigless except for the title. When the young herd boys returned with their cattle, sheep and goats to the village they joined in the party and sang these two songs which are typical of the present day type of dance songs used in the district. Young people's dance song and Umtshongolo dance with clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Hlungulu upeteni (Crow, what are you carrying?)
- Authors: Siganeko Nonkonyana and group of Mpondo men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Folk music , Africa South Africa Lusikisiki f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/150830 , vital:39010 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR061-09
- Description: This simple chant is no doubt effective for its purpose, that of creating in the minds if the villagers the right mood for the mysteries of divination - The actual practice the song would last for several minutes longer than the present recording. Diverner's song with clapping and drums.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Iduma lya gebuza (The gash-the cut)
- Authors: Boys of Kalana Location , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Folk music , Africa South Africa King Williams Town f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/150790 , vital:39006 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR061-06
- Description: "When you are struck by lightening, there is much bleeding from the gash. Dance song for young men and boys with concertina.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Igada (A clod of earth)
- Authors: 5 young Xhosa men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Folk music , Africa South Africa Kentani f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/150761 , vital:39003 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR061-03
- Description: This was sung by the same group of young Xhosa men and women as the first 2 songs. The dancing was static, done by the mwn only, who used a single stamping step, but very stlised elegant gestures of arms and hands. They were holding decorated sticks. One man held up the two end corners of his blanket-skirt. His forearms were solidly encased in brass wire bracelets from wrist to elbow. Intlombe dances for young people with clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Inkuntse
- Authors: Group of young boys and 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/10962/151065 , vital:39026 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR063-01
- Description: Whilst the beer was being passed round the group of older men and women, the young folk volunteered a song - after it started the women also joined in. Mtshosho dance for young people, with clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Intsizwa zombango bekinduka pantsi (Quarrelling youths, put down your sticks)
- Authors: Group of Mpondo men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Folk music , Africa South Africa Tabankulu f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/150841 , vital:39011 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR061-10
- Description: The group started off during the rehasal by singing: "We won't be beaten by women." This was received by much raillery and laughter on the part of the women. Umhogo old fighting song.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Ithaca litwele ibaketi (A Baca is carrying a bucket)
- Authors: Group of young Mpondo men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Folk music , Africa South Africa Tabankulu f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/150861 , vital:39013 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR061-12
- Description: The singers sang this crouching down on the ground. Song sung for the Indlamu dance, with clapping of sticks.
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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
Kanakazi Kayaya mbebeweta pamulomo (The unfaithful wife talks too much)
- Authors: Smart Chigwamba and group of 5 Tumbuka men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Malawi , Tumbuka (African people)--Music , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Rumpi f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/140198 , vital:37847 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR054-04
- Description: The unfaithful wife deliberately annoys her husband by nagging him, until he leaves her. Topical song.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Kwanukimpi (The smell of war)
- Authors: Group of elderly Mpondo men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Folk music , Africa South Africa TLusikisiki f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/150870 , vital:39014 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR061-13
- Description: This is an old fighting song with Ukuhoga cries which are made when a man leaps out from the group to do a short and a common practice amongst Nguni tribesmen. The song was sung by the older men of about 50 years and over. Ukuhoga - battle cries. Kwanukimpi old mens' dance.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Malayisha 1 (Hold the sun, so that it sets)
- Authors: Young Gcaleka men and 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/10962/151107 , vital:39030 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR063-05
- Description: Dancing song such as this one is the present fashion among Gcaleka young people. They are simple and easy to follow and each singer can add his own variations. The dancers add the gutteral roaring sound, which may reflect their distant relationship with the Arabs of the East African coast many generations ago. Mtshotsho song, with clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1957