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Abafazi pandle (Women should go outside the hut)

- Group of Gcaleka men and women, Hugh Tracey

Amaseyibokwe athengwa ngemali eninzi (For a certain type of socks you pay dearly)

- Gcaleka boys and girls, Hugh Tracey

Bam! Mfana kabanina undenzenzima (Bam! Whose son has made me pregnant)

- Group of Gcaleka women, Hugh Tracey

  • 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)

- Gcaleka women and girls, Hugh Tracey

Bayathetha abantwana ndinendaba (Children are speaking because I have news)

- Gcaleka boys and girls, Hugh Tracey

  • 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

Hayitsho Nongongobala

- Young Gcaleka boys and girls, Hugh Tracey

  • 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?)

- Siganeko Nonkonyana and group of Mpondo men, Hugh Tracey

Iduma lya gebuza (The gash-the cut)

- Boys of Kalana Location, Hugh Tracey

Igada (A clod of earth)

- 5 young Xhosa men and women, Hugh Tracey

  • 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

- Group of young boys and girls, Hugh Tracey

Intsizwa zombango bekinduka pantsi (Quarrelling youths, put down your sticks)

- Group of Mpondo men, Hugh Tracey

Ithaca litwele ibaketi (A Baca is carrying a bucket)

- Group of young Mpondo men, Hugh Tracey

Jomjom ndaliwa yindoda ngenxa yako (Jomjom, I have been divorced by my husband on your account)

- Nozikencele and Gcaleka girls, Hugh Tracey

  • 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

Kwanukimpi (The smell of war)

- Group of elderly Mpondo men, Hugh Tracey

Malayisha 1 (Hold the sun, so that it sets)

- Young Gcaleka men and girls, Hugh Tracey

  • 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

Malayisha 1 (Hold the sun, so that it sets)

- Young Gcaleka men and girls, Hugh Tracey

  • 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/10962/151098 , vital:39029 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR063-04
  • 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

Malayisha 2 (Hold the sun, so that it sets)

- Young Gcaleka men and girls, Hugh Tracey

  • 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/10962/151112 , vital:39031 , 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

Mama ndaswelindawo ngendaba (Mother, I am short of accommodation on account of news)

- Gcaleka boys and girls, Hugh Tracey

  • 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/10962/151219 , vital:39040 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR063-09
  • 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

Mdlankomo (Name)

- Group of Gcaleka women, Hugh Tracey

  • 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/10962/150921 , vital:39017 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR062-01
  • Description: This particular group was very simple. The reaction to hearing the loudspeaker was immediately to join in, and it appeared to take them some little time to realize that they were in fact hearing themselves, and not just listening to some other Gcaleka singing. Circumcision song for the Abakweta dance with clapping.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957

Mjinana

- Women of Kalana Location, Hugh Tracey

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