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Ukutyiwa zezilo (I am enchanted by magic)

  • Authors: Group of Xhosa women and Notembile and Nopenrose , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Willowvale f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136064 , vital:37333 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR028-03
  • Description: This item was recorded inside a hut. We were told that this music (performed only by women) is only played at night, inside the huts. Those in the hut who are listening, must listen in silence, perhaps lie down and close their eyes and then "they must think of places far away, where they have never been, or of places where their sons or husbands are working." 2 Self-delectative songs with Hadi musical bow, unbraced, open and resonated.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Ulo tixo omkhulu (God Almighty - The High God)

  • 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

Umama litshipa (Mother is an absconder)

Umbala (Colour)

  • Authors: Group of young Xhosa men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Africa South Africa Kentani f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/150412 , vital:38973 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR060-03
  • Description: This group of "Amakwenkwe" (young unitiated men) all wrapped in red blankets, carrying sticks and wearing bead leggings, sang very well with gravity and intersity. They were all under 18 years of age. In the interval between the songs, they went off to fetch their sticks and struck them together during the song to mark the rhythm. Three group fighting song, with sticks and whistles.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Umdudo (Name)

  • 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 Idutywa f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/150940 , vital:39019 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR062-02
  • Description: This song was sung on a bright sunny afternoon by 20 Gcaleka women all dressed in their ochre coloured blankets or shawls, sitting on the ground near the cattle kraal. The great open downs of the Transkei rolling away on every side to the mountains in the West and blue Indian ocean to the east. Circumcision song for the Abakweta dance with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Umfazi uyabalega (His wife has run away)

  • Authors: Group of young Mpondo girls and boys , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Lusikisiki f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136587 , vital:37394 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR032-07
  • Description: Clapping accampanied by a rapping on the drums greeted Chief Botha whenever he appeared. Each dance song began with the boys kneeling, singing each into his cupped hand, bobbing and swaying to the rhythm whilst the girls stood nearby, exactly like in the previous item. At a given signal the boys rose and went on dancing standing up. The word "Gubura" is pronounced "GHUBUKHA" (Kh as in loch). The peculiar leopard like snarl, or cough or grunt which the Xhosa make in their throats is noticeable throughout these songs. They are very fond of making it out of context, just as an exclamation. Gubura dance for young people.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Umgaq' uphum' entabeni

Umgquzo (Where is my blanket? It is in the forest)

  • Authors: Group of Mpondo women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Tabankulu f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136370 , vital:37369 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR030-03
  • Description: This dance was performed by the married women standing in a circle. In the second part of the song they say: "The person who grinds the corn for the beer has a lot to say."- Some of the women had painted their faces with pale yellow ochre.- They wore pale blue blankets, were lavishly decorated with beads, mostly in sky blue and white, wore calf length beaded skirts, and a great many brass wire bracelets. In some cases, the typical headring was made of a leather strap (a dog's collar) studded with brass studs, edged and fringed with sky blue and white beads. Umgouzo girl's initiation dance.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Umtsha wam' uyayizulisa ingqondoyam (My lover sends me out of my mind)

Undebulisele ku Lungwengwe (Give my best wishes to Lungwengwe, also to your mother)

Utakata ngsandhla sako (Yo have laid me under a spell with your hands)

  • Authors: Group of young Mpondo men and women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Lusikisiki f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136723 , vital:37410 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR033-08
  • Description: The leader says: "You have laid me under a spell with your hands." To which the girls answer: "You, enhanting with your hands." Party song for young people with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Uxam (The Iguana)

  • 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.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Uxam ugezile usind'indlu ngodaka (The iguana is very silly)

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

Uzubale kakuhle

Uzubale kakukhle (Write nicely)

Wa lala yedwa (She slept alone)

  • Authors: Group of elderly Mpondo men and women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Praise , Africa South Africa Lusikisiki f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136463 , vital:37381 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR031-05
  • Description: The thin "blankets" of Kaffir sheeting dyed with washing blue peculiar to this district were much worn, especially by the women. Men excuted solo dances, with pirouettes and high kicks pointing their toes. They also gave Ukuhoga cries. When a woman's husband dies, she becomes Adikazi, which means a free woman,- i.e. free to choose lovers.- This song is sung at night by the men and women at a party. Tshawe dance for older folk.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Wanyongoba (The worry)

Wayisebenzela Ijoyini (He worked for the 'contract')

  • Authors: Nozi Kencele (14 years) 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/10962/151076 , vital:39027 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR063-02
  • Description: The girl playing the mouth bow was left-handed. Her friends standing beside her sang the refrain and also did the roaring sounds in the throat which are so typical of the Xhosa people. The word Ijoyini, from the English word 'join', refers to the contract to work on the gold mines, their major source of employment. Mtshotsho dance for young boys and girls, with Ikinki musical bow.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

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