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Intetho ye Inkosi (Track)
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There was singing going on in the distance from a group of young Mpondo men at the time. The tapping of the drums and clapping at parts of the Chief's speech indicates applause.
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Intetho yenkosi = The speech of a Chief (Field Card)
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There was singing going on in the distance from a group of young Mpondo men at the time. The tapping of the drums and clapping at parts of the Chief's speech indicates applause.
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Intetho yenkosi = The speech of a Chief (Track)
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This Chief Madlanya Tantsi was a man of great personality and charm. His "Great Place" was situated in a cup of the hills not far from Tabankulu. The speech was delivered to a gathering of his people men and women, seated on the short grass, with their ponies grazing peacefully in the background and the hot after...
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Isele (The rapacious frog) (Track)
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Recorded in a Gcaleka hut. Most huts have one small window, about the size of a ship's porthole, but this had none. There was once a frog who swallowed a baby and took it down to the river. - It gave the baby to another frog, who in turn swallowed it. The second frog took the baby back to its village. It met some...
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Ishe Komborera Afrika (Track)
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The local Zezuru version of the well known Xhosa anthem "Nkosi sikelele afrika" composed in 1897 in the Transkei by a teacher here.
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Itlanganiso ya magqiha ye Izangoma (I) (Track)
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Extracts from the proceedings at the first conference of Izangoma Diviners, to be held in Umtata, Transkei. The speech and songs were entirely impromptu and demonstrate the type of speech employed by such herbalists and their supporting singers or assistants.
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Itlanganiso ya magqika ye Izangoma (II) (Field Card)
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Led by Dangazela and by Nowinjile Sincabo his wife. Dangazela is the son of Chief Bota the paramount chief of Lusikisiki. This recording demonstrates the procedure adopted by herbalists and diviners at their meetings and healing ceremonies -- the music and speeches helping to create an atmosphere of serious contem...
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Itlanganiso ya magqika ye Izangoma (II) (Track)
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Led by Dangazela and by Nowinjile Sincabo his wife. Dangazela is the son of Chief Bota the paramount chief of Lusikisiki. This recording demonstrates the procedure adopted by herbalists and diviners at their meetings and healing ceremonies -- the music and speeches helping to create an atmosphere of serious contem...
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Itlanganiso ya magqika ye Izangoma (III) (Track)
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Jamagara (Field Card)
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This set of xylophone notes played by five men, two on the one side and three on the other side of the notes which lie on the banana supports between them. The players beat the ends of the notes, not the center, and if they slip out of place they are pushed back by the players on either side. The notes are made o...
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