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Gubura dances of the Mpondo.
- Format:
- Sound recording
- Series:
- Smithsonian Global Sound.
- Language:
- Xhosa
- Subjects (All):
- Pondo (African people)--Music.
- Pondo (African people).
- Folk dance music--South Africa--Lusikisiki.
- Folk dance music.
- South Africa--Lusikisiki.
- Genre:
- Folk dance music.
- Field recordings.
- Music.
- Sound recordings.
- Folk music.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (18 minutes)
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, DC : Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, 1957.
- Language Note:
- Sung in Xhosa.
- Summary:
- Young Mpondo men and women of the Lusikisiki District, Cape Province, South Africa, sing for several gubura dances. Each song begins with the boys kneeling. Each boy sings into his cupped hand and bobs and sways to the rhythm. The girls stand nearby. At a signal, the boys rise and dance standing up. The word gubura is pronounced [gubuca]. The leopardlike snarl, or cough, or grunt, which the Xhosa make in their throats is audible throughout these songs (Tracey 1973).
- Contents:
- Imama
- Ubenga lahlinkomo
- Jamani
- Injeke, injeke, he
- Hla unakwahamba
- Tikolosh
- Umfazi uya balega.
- Notes:
- Streaming audio files.
- Title from resource description page (viewed March 03, 2016).
- Other Format:
- Original cat. no.: ILAMTR032A
- OCLC:
- 950026550
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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