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Wena langa nawe langa

- Dargie, Dave

  • Authors: Dargie, Dave
  • Date: 1980-08-06
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa King Williams Town f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/257964 , vital:52919 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DD020-14
  • Description: Practice At Zwelitsha.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1980-08-06

Mvana ka Thixo

- Choir, Sigiswa, Mziwamadoda Joseph, Huwiler, Kurt, Dargie, Dave

Nkosi Nkosi

- Choir, Sigiswa, Mziwamadoda Joseph, Huwiler, Kurt, Dargie, Dave

Nkosi yiba nenceba kuthi

- Choir, Sigiswa, Mziwamadoda Joseph, Huwiler, Kurt, Dargie, Dave

Ungcwele

- Choir, Sigiswa, Mziwamadoda Joseph, Huwiler, Kurt, Dargie, Dave

Uzuko ku Thixo enyangweni

- Choir, Sigiswa, Mziwamadoda Joseph, Huwiler, Kurt, Dargie, Dave

Didiyela Monkalanga Semlangeni

- Women of Kalana location, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Women of Kalana location , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Africa South Africa King Williams Town f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/149994 , vital:38928 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR059-15
  • Description: A diviner arrived in person but declined to sing with the women who were all sitting around on the floor of the hut, about 80 of them. The married women were more soberly dressed than the young unmarried ones and wore their headclothes in the more usual Xhosa 'pile' of cloth on the head, producing a large loose turban-like effect. Diviner's song, with clapping.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957

Iduma lya gebuza (The gash-the cut)

- Boys of Kalana Location, Hugh Tracey

Imfakadolo (Little bird)

- Iqela Labavumi bakwa Zwelitsha (Zwelitsha Choral Society), Hugh Tracey

Ingeji yam = My engagement ring

- Iqela Labavumi bakwa Zwelitsha (Zwelitsha Choral Society), Hugh Tracey

Ingeji yam = My engagement ring

- Iqela Labavumi bakwa Zwelitsha (Zwelitsha Choral Society), Hugh Tracey

Inkosi ya Mponda

- Women of Kalana location, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Women of Kalana location , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Africa South Africa King Williams Town f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/149476 , vital:38856 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR059-14
  • Description: A diviner arrived in person but declined to sing with the women who were all sitting around on the floor of the hut, about 80 of them. The married women were more soberly dressed than the young unmarried ones and wore their headclothes in the more usual Xhosa 'pile' of cloth on the head, producing a large loose turban-like effect. Diviner's song, with clapping.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957

Intonjane

- Women of Kalana, Hugh Tracey

Intsimbi ka Ntiskana (Ntsikana's bells and Ntsikana's song)

- Iqela Labavumi bakwa Zwelitsha (Zwelitsha Choral Society), Bokwe, S. T., Bekwe, J. K., Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Iqela Labavumi bakwa Zwelitsha (Zwelitsha Choral Society) , Bokwe, S. T. , Bekwe, J. K. , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Music--Religious aspects , Africa South Africa King Williams Town f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135727 , vital:37293 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR026-01
  • Description: Ntsikana was the first Christian convert of the Xhosa tribes. "The song was chanted by Ntsikana regularly at dawn of day, standing at his hut door, summoning the people to morning prayer. As people gathered they joined in the strains, adding different parts. Extracts taken from the songbook "Amaculo ase Lovedale.", published by the Lovedale Press.- It is notable that Ntsikana had never heard a church bell. The tune is of African origin. Religious descriptive chant and song.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957

Mamilambo

- Women of Kalana location, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Women of Kalana location , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Africa South Africa King Williams Town f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/150003 , vital:38929 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR059-16
  • Description: A diviner arrived in person but declined to sing with the women who were all sitting around on the floor of the hut, about 80 of them. "Mamilambo" is said to be a spirit or charm in the shape of a snake, which the people buy from the diviners in order to obtain good luck and get rich-so it was explained. The married women were more soberly dressed than the young unmarried ones and wore their headclothes in the more usual Xhosa 'pile' of cloth on the head, producing a large loose turban-like effect. Diviner's song, with clapping.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957

Mjinana

- Women of Kalana Location, Hugh Tracey

Mjinana

- Women of Kalana Location, Hugh Tracey

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

- Iqela Labavumi bakwa Zwelitsha (Zwelitsha Choral Society), Hugh Tracey

Uzubale kakukhle (Write nicely)

- Iqela Labavumi bakwa Zwelitsha (Zwelitsha Choral Society), Hugh Tracey

Bawo wethu osezulwini (Our Father)

- Choir, Mpotulo, L., Huwiler, Kurt, Dargie, Dave

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