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Nyiti inkwekwezi (We are the star)

- Mushumbo Dlamini and the Star Brothers, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Mushumbo Dlamini and the Star Brothers , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1959
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Swazi (African people) , Folk music , Africa Eswatini Havelock Mine, N. Eswatini f-sq
Language: Swati
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153187 , vital:39417 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR075-03
Description: "We are the star when the sun sets and when sun rises." (i.e. "We shine by night and by day.") The words are in Swati, English and Xhosa. Many such Small groups of singers give themselves fanciful names mostly in English and not in their own vernacular. Topical song (Mbude style).
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Date Issued: 1959

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Incaba KaNcofula (We capyured the fortress of Ncofula)

- Group of young Swazi men and girls, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Group of young Swazi men and girls , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1958
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Swazi (African people) , Folk music , Africa Eswatini Labamba, Mbabane f-sq
Language: Swati
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153169 , vital:39415 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR075-01
Description: This version of the famous Swati song was sung quietly by a small group of young men and women inside a 12 foot Swazi beehive hut in order to demonstrate the structure and harmonies involved. Regimental song, Umgubo.
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Date Issued: 1958

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Izibongo

- Zwakanye Dlamini, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Zwakanye Dlamini , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1958
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Swazi (African people) , Folk music , Africa Eswatini Entonjeni, Pigg's Peak f-sq
Language: Swati
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153214 , vital:39420 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR075-06
Description: This praise was recited by an old woman of about 80 years after the official type of praise. She recalls conversations of the Queen Mother of the Swazi. Praise song.
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Date Issued: 1958

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Izibongo zika mahlokohla

- Kufa Dlamini (Son of Chief Giga), Hugh Tracey

Authors: Kufa Dlamini (Son of Chief Giga) , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1958
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Swazi (African people) , Folk music , Africa Eswatini Emkhuzweni, Northern District f-sq
Language: Swati
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153196 , vital:39418 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR075-04
Description: Praise song.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1958

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Izibongo zika mswati

- Kufa Dlamini (Son of Chief Giga), Hugh Tracey

Authors: Kufa Dlamini (Son of Chief Giga) , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1958
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Swazi (African people) , Folk music , Africa Eswatini Emkhuzweni, Northern District f-sq
Language: Swati
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153201 , vital:39419 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR075-05
Description: Praise song.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1958

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Sakubona mtwan'ami (Good-day, my child)

- Timoti Dhlamini and "The Try Singers", Hugh Tracey

Authors: Timoti Dhlamini and "The Try Singers" , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1958
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Swazi (African people) , Folk music , Africa Eswatini Usutu Forest, Mbabane f-sq
Language: Swati
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153178 , vital:39416 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR075-02
Description: A lively song in the Mbude style, sung with gusto by a well-drilled troop. Song of greeting (Mbude style).
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Date Issued: 1958

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