Ngqika (A Xhosa Chief)

Title: Ngqika (A Xhosa Chief)
Performer / Recordist: Jury Mpelho; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk music--Africa; Folk songs, Xhosa
Description / content note: The song is about the cattle of Ngqika, a famous Xhosa chief, and how beautiful they were. "We, the Africans of Ngqika, we pay our lobola in cattle. Our cattle are beautiful with well-shaped spreading horns, and we drive them like this, like this. (senjenje, senjenje) to the kraal of the girl's father." Town dance with small band including a piano, saxaphone, trumpet, guitar and drum.
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Xhosa
Place of recording: Africa -- South Africa Grahamstown
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1957
Date issued / published: 1957
Identifier: TR027; 3
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:02:54
File format: wav
Sample Rate: 15 ips reel
Digitisation (original): 96000Hz 24Bit Stereo; Studer B67 Recorder; Sound Forge V.6
Rights Holder: International Library of African Music
License: CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Access Rights: Public
Is Part Of: ILAM Hugh Tracey Sound of Africa Series
Format: audio/mp3
Genre: field recordings
handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135900