Nai puma kuma kuba ngii ndoda
- Authors: Nqwane Mbontyi , 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/10962/136633 , vital:37398 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR032-13
- Description: The performer was quite a humorist in his way, and had a most infectious gaiety, much appreciated by the crown. His name Nqwane Mbonity means "Just like a bean".- He wore a characteristically Mpondo hairdo, the hair cropped close except for the forelock which was allowed to grow long, then plaited into several strings, which were all beeswaxed together into one lock, plastered to the forehead, or reaching down like a small horn to the level of the eyebrows. Tune on the harmonica.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Nai puma kuma kuba ngii ndoda
- Authors: Nqwane Mbontyi , 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/10962/136624 , vital:37399 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR032-13
- Description: The performer was quite a humorist in his way, and had a most infectious gaiety, much appreciated by the crown. His name Nqwane Mbonity means "Just like a bean".- He wore a characteristically Mpondo hairdo, the hair cropped close except for the forelock which was allowed to grow long, then plaited into several strings, which were all beeswaxed together into one lock, plastered to the forehead, or reaching down like a small horn to the level of the eyebrows. Tune on the harmonica.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Namhla kungabwe sautini tina (Today it's your turn. What shall we do)
- Authors: Group of elder Mpondo men and 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/10962/136407 , vital:37373 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR030-07
- Description: This is an old fighting song. The Chief sang this with his leopard tail stick held aloft. Umrobo old fighting songs.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ndakutsala ngomlenze (I will pull you by the leg)
- Authors: Group of Xhosa me and boys , 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/10962/150679 , vital:38996 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR060-14
- Description: This was a version of the dance often seen on the mines in Johannesburg where it is known as "Amakwenkwe." It is remarkable for two things. The strange guttural roaring made by flexing and unflexing the knee of the leg on which they happen to be standing. Bands of small bells worn across the chest make this peculiar feat audible as well as visible. The legs of the dancers are also shaken or made to quiver, as they walk round and on the mines the dancers wear rattles on their legs as well. Mbayizelo dance, with clapping and bells.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Ndazenza udalala uegxagxa
- Authors: Nontwintwi and Annie Macholweni (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Kingwilliamstown f-za
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133605 , vital:36995 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR013-08
- Description: Self-delactative song with Hadi bow, unbraced, open string and resonated
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ndibolekeni ibayi ndembathe madoda (Please, lend me a blanket to cover myself)
- Authors: Gcaleka women 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/10962/150970 , vital:39024 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR062-07
- Description: Drinking songs are sung with great abandon, the women holding their hands above their heads to clap them. Drinking song with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ndinga Ngonyoko (I am old as your mother and I know everything)
- 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/10962/151085 , vital:39028 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR063-03
- Description: Three young Amakwenkwe boys in most handsomely decorated and beaded clothes wound around them from the waist down-beads in profusion over the head, neck and shoulders, danced sedately around as the girls sang behind them. Mtshotsho song, with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ndinike inkomo zolobole (Give back mu dowry)
- 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/10962/136383 , vital:37371 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR030-05
- 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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ndipeze phi? (Where should I drink?)
- 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/10962/136378 , vital:37370 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR030-04
- 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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ndithi khawuthiye nkwenkwe ndala (Please dance, big boy)
- Authors: Young men and boys , 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/10962/150652 , vital:38993 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR060-11
- Description: The roaring or grunting in this dance song is a sound peculiar to the Xhosa. The Luo and Giriyama of Kenya also do it and some of the East Coast Swahili, notably in their religious songs. It is possibly a vestigial remain of Arab influence acquired during the tribe's sojourn in East Africa some 500 years ago. Mbayizelo dance song, with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ngamibonge Amakentani (Please praise the Kentani people)
- Authors: Thombi Fegetwai and 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/10962/151126 , vital:39032 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR063-06
- Description: The girl who leads this song is a born singer of Gcaleka type songs for her contemporaries. The people of Idutywa are, in fact, the Gcaleka tribe whose centre is in the Kentani District above 50 miles away. Mtsotsho dance, with clapping and roaring.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ngo, Ngo (Knock, knock, it is 7 o'clock)
- Authors: Young girls and boys of Durban location , 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/10962/149422 , vital:38850 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR059-08
- Description: Roaring or Mbayizelo dance song, with clapping, stamping and roaring
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ngoma ya bantwana (Song for the children)
- 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 Peddie f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/149467 , vital:38855 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR059-13
- Description: This lullaby was sung by about 50 mothers and grandmothers and one man. "Tula Ntwana musukulila." (Be quiet child and go to sleep). Lullaby.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Nkonkonko
- 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/10962/151255 , vital:39044 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR063-13
- 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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Nokala (The crab)
- Authors: Khotso and 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/10962/136515 , vital:37386 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR031-09
- Description: The women in this group all wore green cotton dresses and green head cloths. They had strands of beads round their necks worked in stripes of green, yellow, white and blue. Khotso said he had taken this colour scheme from the Vierkleur. The men, in addition to this, wore a lavish number of strings of "lucky beans" or seeds, of a pearl-grey colour. These are exclusively worn by the Izangoma. Divination song with clapping and 5 drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Nombindlela (A roadmaker)
- 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/10962/151246 , vital:39043 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR063-12
- Description: The "raodmaker" refers to a man labouring on the local roads. During this song the 16 months old child on the back of one of the singers was clapping its small hands in time to the rhythms of the song which shows how soon small Africans begin to pick up their African music. Women's dance, with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Nongangela (All the young men from Timgqimqi's location are alike)
- Authors: Sam Tyutwana , 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/10962/150779 , vital:39005 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR061-05
- Description: The old men Tyutwana asked specially to sing his own dance song with his friends. The song he said, was for a dance called Nongangela which they dance when they are all very happy. Dance song for Nongangela dance.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Nongelema Mufana Obetele (Nongelema, the best young man)
- Authors: Group of Xhosa men and women , 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/10962/150456 , vital:38978 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR060-08
- Description: The Kentani district lies immediately north of the mouth of the Kei river, on the east coast. Party song, with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Nontsokolo
- Authors: Group of young Xhosa men and boys , 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/10962/150698 , vital:38998 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR060-16
- Description: We were told that this group of Xhosa lads were from Christian homes. The tune is connected to the same dance for young boys and girls between the ages of about 12-17 years. It is a typical song the group of young people use on their way to the home where the party is to take place. The dance itself takes place in a hut. Mbayizelo dance song, with harmonica.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Nonyanya
- Authors: Group of married women , 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/10962/150012 , vital:38930 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR059-17
- 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