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Khomo (Cow)

- Moleleki Moiloa and small group of men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Moleleki Moiloa and small group of men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Tebang f-lo
  • Language: Sotho
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/161955 , vital:40696 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0104-16
  • Description: "Cow, mother of manure, you are dirt. We have just prevented you from crossing the Caledon river. Crossing over to the Free State. We, Mojela's people, are Christians. We were given the rod (badge) of prayer. Sekoere's heifer, Moahloli white and red spotted Lejoetsa. Listen, the Tebang chief rules. The Chief rules at Tebang. The pool is dirty and full of crab holes." Mokorotlo riding song.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Kongwana tshweu wee (Oh, the white cow)

- Lenpe Mongae and group of about 24 Hurutshe men, Hugh Tracey

Lethisa (Uninitiated)

- Group of 15 Sotho girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of 15 Sotho girls , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Mokoroane f-lo
  • Language: Sotho
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162277 , vital:40828 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0106-10
  • Description: The singers were daubed entirely with white clay and were wearing traditional costume, leather skirts. rows of tubular grass girdles or, in some cases, girdles made of short lengths of reed strung together and grass masks shaped like screens. Two or three women wore deep fringes of reed over their leather skirts. "Ho, stop it! Ho, ho, what is that? She wishes to enter the initiation school. She is just a dog." Lelingoana women's initiation song.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Lithoko tsa hae (Praise for himself)

- James Mofokeng, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: James Mofokeng , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Berea f-lo
  • Language: Sotho
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/161204 , vital:40602 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0102-06
  • Description: These praises were personal and referred to the speaker and opened the divining procedure which follwed. The small group of diviners was composed of a man and two women all wearing theri traditional diviners costume and beads. The older woman wore a skin cap, the younger one's long dress was of cloth treated with red ochre and lightly embroidered and decorated with white beads. Praise song.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Noh'a Metsi (Water snake)

- Agnes Nchanyana. 4 assistants and group of women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Agnes Nchanyana. 4 assistants and group of women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Berea f-lo
  • Language: Sotho
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/161222 , vital:40604 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0102-08
  • Description: The leader does a shaking dance on her knees as she sings "Water snake! it comes out the east and it is very angry." The singer, in addition to her diviner's beads, shells, bells and small antelope horns, wore a large Catholic rosary with a worn medal of the Sacred heart, knotted into her girdle. Her scarlet skirt was thickly embroidered with designs in white beads. The adoption of Catholic symbols by pagans for their divination rites is common in nominally Catholic countries, especially by Black Africans (originally referred to as Negroes at the time) who use them in their Voodoo ceremonies. Diviners' song with cylindrical drum (-14.03-) and frame drum (-14.92-).
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Phatshwa bolela (Tell us, black and white ox)

- Rantana Dinake and a large group of men and women, Hugh Tracey

Sebodu ke Nnenekwane banna (Men are told Nnenekwane is the laziest)

- Matubako Marumo and 3 men, Hugh Tracey

Chanta andidaine kaya (God is punishing me)

- Bifi Phiri and friend, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Bifi Phiri and friend , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Pemba f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158954 , vital:40244 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR094-14
  • Description: "God is punishing me because all my relatives are dead, and I am left alone." "I met a woman along the road whose teeth were as white as rice." The words of these two songs as written may have been interchanged. The tuning of the Bangwe Board Zither was; 400, 380, 368, 332, 312, 284, 200. Self delectative song with board zither.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Elube (Elube the beautiful girl)

- S. R. Chitalo and De Ndirande Pitch Crooners, Hugh Tracey

Inu A'Kachere (You Kachere)

- By elderly men at Kachere's village, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: By elderly men at Kachere's village , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dedza, Central Nyasaland f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153392 , vital:39447 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR076-10
  • Description: One of the songs said to have been sung after a tribal raid - a morality song after victory, so that the people will continue to be strong and not be thrown out of their country. It was sung when Europeans first entered the country about the end of the last century when Sir Harry Johnstone first ruled the country. "You! It is A Kachere who has increased the population of this country. There should not be prostitutes, it is forbidden or you will be thrown out by the white men." The Kachere mentioned in the song was the father of the present Chief who is about 70 years old. The song is no doubt derived from the old Nguni custom of purification after fighting. A fighting song with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Inu A'Kachere (You Kachere)

- By elderly men at Kachere's village, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: By elderly men at Kachere's village , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dedza, Central Nyasaland f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153401 , vital:39446 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR076-10
  • Description: One of the songs said to have been sung after a tribal raid - a morality song after victory, so that the people will continue to be strong and not be thrown out of their country. It was sung when Europeans first entered the country about the end of the last century when Sir Harry Johnstone first ruled the country. "You! It is A Kachere who has increased the population of this country. There should not be prostitutes, it is forbidden or you will be thrown out by the white men." The Kachere mentioned in the song was the father of the present Chief who is about 70 years old. The song is no doubt derived from the old Nguni custom of purification after fighting. A fighting song with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Mande

- Group of Karanga men and women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of Karanga men and women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Karanga (African people) , Folk songs, Shona , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Chibi District, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
  • Language: Shona, Karanga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154631 , vital:39756 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR082-16
  • Description: One of the Mashawi 9souls) dances. The Mujukwa are considered in the local mythology to represent the entities who act as go-betweens, or media, between man and the High-God: Especially in connection with their pleading for rain. Some would call them 'Angels'. The dances and songs of the Majukwa are therefore intended to concentrate attention upon aspect of social necessity. Rain, without which the people would perish. With the opening up of communications by white people the effects of draught and subsequent famine have been lessened and therefore the cult or belief in Majukwa and their functions has been proportianately diminished. A Majukwa dance with 3 Dumba drums, 1 Nyeri flute, leg rattles and clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Mungabvale

- Chewa women, Hugh Tracey

Nabaya banjibya ekhhaya (There they are, and they are calling me)

- Ntsandvose Mucina, five Swazi women and 5 men, Hugh Tracey

Phakachere (Under the Kachere tree)

- Men and women, Hugh Tracey

Tikaone mwana (Let us see the child)

- Young Chewa girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Young Chewa girls , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dedza f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160547 , vital:40473 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR098-02
  • Description: This dance is usually accompanied by drums and is done at parties, weddings and other happy occasions. The drums were not available at the time of recording. "Let us go and see a child at Kachere. The child who likes to move about. You young maid, go to sleep nicely, if you don't I will beat you. White people are clever because they have made aeroplanes." Kasodo girls dance, with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Wezulu walila

- Boys of Dedza Secondary School, Hugh Tracey

"Luwalo-o-iuwale." (Start, o start the song)

- Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Africa Zambia Serenje f-za
  • Language: Lala
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134304 , vital:37118 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0019-03
  • Description: "What are we doing? The White men have come. Their tents are over there beyond the Chiwombo river." This was first sung long ago, they say, when the Whites first came to their country about 1900, or a little earlier.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Ani siboni nimakuba (My great friend)

- Iron Khoma, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Iron Khoma , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Songs, Tumbuka , Malawi , Africa Malawi Chinteche f-mw
  • Language: Luvale/Chokwe
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137303 , vital:37508 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0037-02
  • Description: "Marry me, my dear friend. At our home is Nyasaland, the sand is white as cement. If you go to Lusaka you will find there Aleck Nkhata, the Tonga who comes from Nyasaland, of the same line as myself. Self-delectative nostalgic song with Bangwe board zither with 7 strings, lowest not used.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Bamgufya ba kwoti bana pengili amapa (I have got white hair)

- John Lushi, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: John Lushi , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Ushi (African people) , Music--Zambia , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Lake Bangwelu f-za
  • Language: Aushi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/140152 , vital:37840 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR053-12
  • Description: "Tungusa chipembele mwela mucalo tungusa bali twamba bali naka muchalo chabene." "I have got 'white hair with wings' in a strange world but I am sorry that I am very fat and cannot fly." The meaning of this appears to be that the singer is a stranger in a strange land, with no friend and nowhere to go. The phrase 'white hair with wings', they say, is local saying or proverb. Wistful song with guitar and bottle.
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  • Date Issued: 1957
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