{"value"=>"Umgqokolo and other Xhosa Ladies' Dance Songs"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Traditional Xhosa music, of the Eastern Cape Province, from the Lumko Xhosa traditional music series, Lumko no. 105.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p>v01f01: A collection of dance songs performed at Lumko Mission. Six women of the Ngqoko village sing, led by Nofinishi Dywiki. Umngqokolo is a low, rhythmic style of throat-singing.</p> <ol class=\"list\"> <div class=\"head\">Umngqokolo group songs</div> <li>Nondel' ekhaya. Umtshothso song with Kalanga dance.</li> <li>Trobhane (The robber). Umtshothso song with Kalanga dance.</li> <li>Inxanxadi (The brother's bird). Umtshothso song with Teya dance.</li></ol> <ol class=\"list\"> <div class=\"head\">Ladies' dance songs</div> <li>Umhala; the beer song. Like all beer songs it is for ancestral cult.</li> <li>Latshon'ilanga (The sun has set). Umngqungqo song, which is an ancient dance performed by older women.</li> <li>Imgoma yamaGcina; the song of the Gcina people. A beer song.</li> <li>Icamagu makubenjalo. A divination song.</li> <li>Icamagu livumile. A song for after divination.</li> <li>Kha nitshakaze. Umtshothso song.</li> <li>Nguwe l'udal inyakanyaka. Umtshothso song.</li> <li>uSomtonjane. A song for girls' initiation.</li> <li>uSomagwaza. A song for boys' initiation.</li> <li>Amankazana. Umngqungqo song.</li></ol>"}
{"value"=>"<p>v01f02: The recording begins with two large scale umngqokolo performances of Nondel'ekhaya and iRobhane. They are led with umngqokolo overtone singing (umaqangi type plus) by Nowayilethi Mbizeni. Thirteen women sing, of whom five use umngqokolo techniques at different times. To these are added an umngqokolo performance of inxanxadi recorded at Sikhwankqweni in 1981.</p>"}