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Xhosa/Mpondo : S. Africa
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- Sound Recordings
- Language
- Xhosa
- Publication
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- Roodepoort, Transvaal, South Africa : International Library of African Music
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- 1 audio disc : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, monophonic ; 12 in
- OCLC
- ocm12376639
- Credits
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- Sung and played by native musicians
- Edited by Hugh Tracey.
- Card index in English and French in quadruplicate accompanying each record gives details of performance.
- Detailed description published in African music, journal of the African Music Society, v. 1 (1975), p. 65-70.
- Contains women's party songs and dance songs, unaccompanied.
- Recorded in Tabankulu and Lusikisiki Districts, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, 1957.
- Six mpondo women's party songs by young Mpondo married women: Ihobe liyataka = Dove, don't run away, don't hop about (2:47) ; Abafazi bemka = The women are leaving- they have already gone (3:35) ; Kauvele ubona = Appear and look! (2:48) ; Aunakuva unafoko upendukile = Can't you understand your mother has changed her mind (1:27) ; Undebulisele ku Lungwengwe = Give my best wishes to Lungwengwe, also to your mother (3:08) ; Masihambe bawo silele emzini = We slept at a certain kraal, let us go early (2:42) -- One song for the Umngcutsho dance with clapping by young Mpondo married women: Olihomba = A well-dressed person (2:42) -- Four party songs for young people by young Mpondo men & women: Utakata ngsandhla sako = You have laid me under a spell with your hands (1:30) ; O, ama Jalimani = Oh, the Germans! (1:32) ; Lahiwe indoda = When your husband is throwing you out of his house (1:30) ; Lahiwe indoda = In the morning I'll say one thing (1:37) -- Four dance songs for young people by Mpondo men & girls: Miss Mababo (2:48) ; U'tengisa nge misopu = You are selliing the beadwork (2:34) ; Buzaufazi zipina inkomo = Ask the woman where the cattle are (2:38) ; Ikomo siyaibulaa = Let the cattle be killed (3:07)