This song was sung on a bright sunny afternoon by 20 Gcaleka women all dressed in their ochre coloured blankets or shawls, sitting on the ground near the cattle kraal. The great open downs of the Transkei rolling away on every side to the mountains in the West and blue Indian ocean to the east. Circumcision song for the Abakweta dance with clapping
There is some doubt about the origin of this song. The singers claimed that it was a country song be...
Imihamilizo dance song played by Twa musicians for their Tutsi masters to dance to, with makondera h...
Indigenous folk song with timbila xylophones, singing and background cries, accompanied by rattles. ...
Indigenous folk song sung after female circumcision, with singing and clapping, accompanied by brief...
This particular group was very simple. The reaction to hearing the loudspeaker was immediately to jo...
This song was sung at an informal drinking party at a friend's hut. The singers were not informed be...
Xhosa women use Umngqokolo techniques with normal voices, performing traditional Xhosa music with cl...
The Mpondo women of this district wear their hair in bunches of fine waxed plaits on either side of ...
The singers all lay flat on their stomachs, singing into their cupped hands, which were slightly vib...
Indigenous folk song with a timbila xylophone orchestra and brief singing towards the end. Orchestra...
"We went along the Nairobi road, looking for water but we found none. So we returned with empty gour...
This was sung by a group of about 50 Gcaleka women all dressed in their traditional costumes with sh...
Indigenous folk song with singing and full timbila orchestra. Dance song with full timbila orchestra...
"Uhimila was so fine a dancer that even Kihimyali would bow down and clap his hands." All African tr...
Indigenous folk song with singing and full timbila orchestra. Dance song with full timbila orchestra...
There is some doubt about the origin of this song. The singers claimed that it was a country song be...
Imihamilizo dance song played by Twa musicians for their Tutsi masters to dance to, with makondera h...
Indigenous folk song with timbila xylophones, singing and background cries, accompanied by rattles. ...
Indigenous folk song sung after female circumcision, with singing and clapping, accompanied by brief...
This particular group was very simple. The reaction to hearing the loudspeaker was immediately to jo...
This song was sung at an informal drinking party at a friend's hut. The singers were not informed be...
Xhosa women use Umngqokolo techniques with normal voices, performing traditional Xhosa music with cl...
The Mpondo women of this district wear their hair in bunches of fine waxed plaits on either side of ...
The singers all lay flat on their stomachs, singing into their cupped hands, which were slightly vib...
Indigenous folk song with a timbila xylophone orchestra and brief singing towards the end. Orchestra...
"We went along the Nairobi road, looking for water but we found none. So we returned with empty gour...
This was sung by a group of about 50 Gcaleka women all dressed in their traditional costumes with sh...
Indigenous folk song with singing and full timbila orchestra. Dance song with full timbila orchestra...
"Uhimila was so fine a dancer that even Kihimyali would bow down and clap his hands." All African tr...
Indigenous folk song with singing and full timbila orchestra. Dance song with full timbila orchestra...
There is some doubt about the origin of this song. The singers claimed that it was a country song be...
Imihamilizo dance song played by Twa musicians for their Tutsi masters to dance to, with makondera h...
Indigenous folk song with timbila xylophones, singing and background cries, accompanied by rattles. ...