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Authors: Iqela Labavumi bakwa Zwelitsha (Zwelitsha Choral Society) , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Wedding music , Africa South Africa King Williams Town f-sa
Language: Xhosa
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135772 , vital:37297 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR026-04
Description: "Little bird what have you got in your beak?" "Food for my little ones.-" "Young men get your gun and shoot the bird." Dubula, dubula, means shoot, shoot. Wedding song.
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Date Issued: 1957

Authors: Iqela Labavumi bakwa Zwelitsha (Zwelitsha Choral Society) , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Wedding music , Africa South Africa King Williams Town f-sa
Language: Xhosa
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135744 , vital:37294 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR026-02
Description: Preliminary to a christian wedding. The girl says: "I heard my young man say:- "Give me back my engagement ring." "I don't know why he's jilted me." Wedding song.
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Date Issued: 1957

Authors: Iqela Labavumi bakwa Zwelitsha (Zwelitsha Choral Society) , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Wedding music , Africa South Africa King Williams Town f-sa
Language: Xhosa
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135749 , vital:37295 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR026-02
Description: Preliminary to a christian wedding. The girl says: "I heard my young man say:- "Give me back my engagement ring." "I don't know why he's jilted me." Wedding song.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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.
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Date Issued: 1957

Authors: Iqela Labavumi bakwa Zwelitsha (Zwelitsha Choral Society) , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Wedding music , Africa South Africa King Williams Town f-sa
Language: Xhosa
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135781 , vital:37298 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR026-05
Description: "The iguana is very silly, it has smeered mud all over the floor of the house. Go away! You are tramping on me. And why are you laughing? Go away! Go away!" Wedding song
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

Authors: Iqela Labavumi bakwa Zwelitsha (Zwelitsha Choral Society) , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Wedding music , Africa South Africa King Williams Town f-sa
Language: Xhosa
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135763 , vital:37296 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR026-03
Description: "Write nicely in the register, because the marriage certificate is going to be sent to a far country." (i.e. Pretoria). This song is sung when the bride and groom are signing the register - it goes on - "We see here two clans or all various members of the tribe gathered together. Wedding song.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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