Sibewu
- Authors: Mapulana men and women (Madika initiated young 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/10962/188002 , vital:44716 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR194-02
- Description: All the people moving anti-clockwise around the three drums. The opening of the Sibewa movement illustrates the method of starting a pipe dance and the difficulty they experience in the initial fitting in of the various pipe parts. Once the third player came in, in between the other two, the music came alive and all joined in with a will. "Up there where we were born, the mealies are finished so we will eat wheat. Up there where we carry baskets the mealies are finished and we will eat corn." Initiation song and pipe dance, with 4 metal pipes and 3 drums Moropa o muyana and Moropa o mkula, 1 bushbuck horn and 1 kudu horn
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- Date Issued: 1963
Title 1. Mogobo Title 2. Segata mosabani
- 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/10962/188011 , vital:44717 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR194-03
- Description: The change over from Mogobo to Segata mosabani takes place at approximately 2m 19s from the start of the dance. The impression of general jollification, noise making, shouts and whistles is well caught in this recording. The Mapulana clan of the Pedi consider themselves a distinctive group and have occupied the territories below the Drankensburg Mountain, in the vicinity of Bushbuck Ridge for several generations. A few people of Tsonga (Shangaan) orign have settled among them. "Come and dance on the sand. We dance on the sand with praises." Two initiation dances with beaten sticks, Bushbuck horn (-11.01-), Kudu horn (-11.01-), 3 drums (-14.01101-) and whistle
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- Date Issued: 1963
Tlisa kgopa
- Authors: Mashego, Barney (Chief) , Pedi women and one old man , 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/10962/188650 , vital:44772 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR195-01
- Description: In this singing game, the object is to find something, some small object, which has been hidden by one of the singers. The one taking the solo part guesses who has it and sings to each person to find out until she guesses right, when the next person takes over and so the game goes on. "Bring my thing, who has it? This one has it. Tell him to bring it. But I do not have it."
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- Date Issued: 1963
Tsa lla molapong
- 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/10962/188704 , vital:44778 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR195-04
- 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 fourth woman stood by and added cries of encouragement. "They cry, they cry at the river. They hear legaletlwa (a tree)." The thorn tree has twisted boughs which are inclined to rub against each other amd emit occassional creaking sounds. Pounding song with mortar and three pestles
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- Date Issued: 1963
Tsepe mpolaye
- Authors: Small group of Pedi women with hoes , 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/10962/189222 , vital:44828 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR195-11
- Description: There are several songs of this nature to be found in Africa where the newly married girl is accused by her sister-in-law of being lazy and not doing her share of the hard work, such as hoeing in the fields. Here among the Pedi as elsewhere the women are the agricultural labourers. "Hoe kill me. My in-laws say I am lazy. And I am useless. Hoe kill me." Hoeing song
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- Date Issued: 1963
Tu shalala
- 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/10962/189362 , vital:44840 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR195-14
- 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
Adiyo jaxa kxaja nkwe
- Authors: Ncha, Frank , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1960
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Pedi (African people) , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Leydsdorp f-sa
- Language: Pedi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/189417 , vital:44845 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR195-19
- Description: "If you stone a leopard, it will kill you. Who are we going to dance with? There is nobody who can stone a leopard, Everybody says so." Chorus: "Adiyo." Dance song with autoharp, 2 small rubber headed drums and a rattle
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- Date Issued: 1960
Mahlalela
- Authors: Ncha, Frank , Three girls , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1960
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Pedi (African people) , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Leydsdorp f-sa
- Language: Pedi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/189386 , vital:44842 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR195-16
- Description: Who are we going to dance with? Today we dance with women because Mahlelela is very fond of women, refusing to dance with the girls. When Mahlalela dances in his big "Scotch" hat his head wobbles from side to side, and people laugh "Chekula, chekula. elewee." In the 1920's the autoharp was the most popular of foreign manufactured unstruments, several hundred thousand having been sold to Africans in South Africa alone. It then suffered a sharp decline and today in 1963 very few can be found except among the Pedi where a few are still played. Topical song with Autoharp, 2 small drums, made of tins with rubber heads and 1 rattle
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- Date Issued: 1960
Sebedubedu
- Authors: Ncha, Frank , Three girls , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1960
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Pedi (African people) , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Leydsdorp f-sa
- Language: Pedi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/189395 , vital:44843 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR195-17
- Description: My breatbone is painful. I went to my grandmother and told her. I was crying, I had no mother, no father. I sing about my breastbone and I feel better. Chorus: "Hlala mahlalela." Topical song with Autoharp, 2 small drums, made of tins with rubber heads and 1 rattle
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- Date Issued: 1960
Shuru Mmamutsumi
- Authors: Ncha, Frank , Three girls , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1960
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Pedi (African people) , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Leydsdorp f-sa
- Language: Pedi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/189408 , vital:44844 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR195-18
- Description: A man had two wives, one old and the other young. There was jealousy among them. "Today is your last day." Shuru the younger sings, "why do you greet him as your man?" Then Shuru and Makuwe killed the elder, cut her in two, removed her legs, head abd arms, locked the door and set fire to the house. They tried to burn the whole house with the old woman in it, but the people came and said "Fetch the police." They put Makuwe inside the house and told Shuru to sweep the yard. But she dropped the broom and ran far away. The police could not find her. She went to Mpulutsi station and put on Shangaan clothes so as not to be recognised. The police told Shuru's brother "We will kill unless you tell us where she is." So he took them to Mpulutsi and showed her to them. She claimed to have been alone in the crime and Makuwe was discharged, "Did anyone see Shuru burn the house or kill the girl?" "No." She is discharged. This is said to have taken place in Feburary 1963. Chorus: 'Aghe Mangwaku.' Yes Mangwaku (Shuru's married name). This song was composed by Ncha basing his words, he claims, upon what he alleges was a true incident that happened only four months before. Topical song with Autoharp, 2 small drums, made of tins with rubber heads and 1 rattle
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- Date Issued: 1960
Mamsadi msadi evamakguva (A fair woman is our woman)
- Authors: Nelson Siboza and the Montanas Brothers , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Pedi (African people) , Folk music , Africa South Africa Mataffin, Nelspruit, Northern Transvaal f-sa
- Language: Northern Sotho, Pedi, Sepedi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153250 , vital:39424 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR075-10
- Description: The youngsters sho sang this song represent a growing class of semi-detribalised boys born and brought up in an urban industrialised environment. Their main musical stimulus is a few gramophone records and distributed from Johannesburg and elsewhere and their own original setting of these songs or their imitation of the style does them credit. Party song with guitar.
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- Date Issued: 1958