Kauvele ubona (Appear and look)

  • Group of young Mpondo married women
  • Hugh Tracey
Publication date
January 1957
Publisher
International Library of African Music

Abstract

When the women clapped their hands they all chanted: "I left my lover." It appears that one woman can break in with her own song, thus taking over from another woman. Women's party song with clapping

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