Mbiya ambwiya wo tiende (Grandmother, let us go)
- Authors: Jesi Tembo , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Sena (African people) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Mkota, Mtoko District, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
- Language: Tonga/Sena
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179081 , vital:39872 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR085-14
- Description: A hyena's grandmother died and so he went off to suckle from a woman in order to show people that he was in reality the son of the woman. The meaning of this story is not clear, though it is among the many African stories in which people turn themselves or are turned into animals to stress a moral point. Story song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
- Authors: Jesi Tembo , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Sena (African people) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Mkota, Mtoko District, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
- Language: Tonga/Sena
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179081 , vital:39872 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR085-14
- Description: A hyena's grandmother died and so he went off to suckle from a woman in order to show people that he was in reality the son of the woman. The meaning of this story is not clear, though it is among the many African stories in which people turn themselves or are turned into animals to stress a moral point. Story song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Murumi wakaenda ku Harari (The man who went to Harari (Salsibury))
- Tonga married women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Tonga married women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Sena (African people) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Mkota, Mtoko District, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
- Language: Tonga/Sena
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179134 , vital:39871 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR085-13
- Description: The story concerns a husband who went off to work at Harari (Salisbury) and spent three years there. But when he came back he only brought to his wife an empty sack or a hat or just paper only, or a mouse skin, or a mole. In factnothing of value at all! Story song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
- Authors: Tonga married women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Sena (African people) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Mkota, Mtoko District, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
- Language: Tonga/Sena
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179134 , vital:39871 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR085-13
- Description: The story concerns a husband who went off to work at Harari (Salisbury) and spent three years there. But when he came back he only brought to his wife an empty sack or a hat or just paper only, or a mouse skin, or a mole. In factnothing of value at all! Story song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Njenjenje
- Madzimbone and younf Tonga women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Madzimbone and younf Tonga women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Sena (African people) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Mkota, Mtoko District, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
- Language: Tonga/Sena
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179199 , vital:39870 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR085-12
- Description: The leader was an old woman and the chorus a number of young married women. Party song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
- Authors: Madzimbone and younf Tonga women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Sena (African people) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Mkota, Mtoko District, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
- Language: Tonga/Sena
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179199 , vital:39870 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR085-12
- Description: The leader was an old woman and the chorus a number of young married women. Party song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Ririka-ririka rerera-ririka (When I die what shall I leave behind)
- Young Tonga women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Young Tonga women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Sena (African people) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Mkota, Mtoko District, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
- Language: Tonga/Sena
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179210 , vital:39869 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR085-11
- Description: A song sung after supper in the evening. Party song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
- Authors: Young Tonga women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Sena (African people) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Mkota, Mtoko District, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
- Language: Tonga/Sena
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179210 , vital:39869 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR085-11
- Description: A song sung after supper in the evening. Party song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
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