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Amalume kuwayawa

- Group of Nsenga women, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Icamagolivumile

- Nonkonyane, Siganeko, Mpondo and Sotho men, Composer unknown, Tracey, Hugh

Ihobahobo

- Women of Kalana location, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Akwa musadi moyo wenu he he he (Welcome to our village, stranger

- Large group of Chokwe men and women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Large group of Chokwe men and women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Chokwe (African people) , Folk music , Angola , Congo (Democratic Republic) , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Sandoa f-cg
  • Language: Chokwe
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137038 , vital:37481 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR036-02
  • Description: The drums set the basic rhythm and the song is led by a woman who occassionally breaks off her song to call to her chorus who reply a set phrase and then continue with the song. It is intereting to note that the sticks, which are tapped together, produce the same basic rhythm as that produced on sticks or bottles from Southern Congo right across the continent to the east coast. It can be counted as follows:- ONE, TWO, THREE, one-two: (rest) ONE, TWO, One-two (rest). The Luvale come from the high ground near the source of the Zambeze.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Bam! Mfana kabanina undenzenzima (Bam! Whose son has made me pregnant)

- Group of Gcaleka women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of Gcaleka women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Folk music , Africa South Africa Willowvale f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151237 , vital:39042 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR063-11
  • Description: This song, sung without a trace of shyness, rather indicated a social state of affairs which was an accepted fact. It was not possible to obtain the true history behind the words and quite likely they contain an allusion of some local romance rather than to a local tragedy. Women's dance, with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Cin'goma ca kubaruka

- R. T. Mbuluwundi (Composer), Ruben Tankadi Mbuluwundi and group of 5 Tumbuka men (Performers), Hugh Tracey

Icamagilivumile (Thank you for what you have done)

- Group of Mpondo and Sotho men led by Siganeko Nonkonyana, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of Mpondo and Sotho men led by Siganeko Nonkonyana , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Lusikisiki f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136493 , vital:37384 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR031-07
  • Description: "The sick people are coming tomorrow-They are bringing money." The day's recording at the Great Place of the Paramount Chief of the Mpondo ended with 3 songs by this group of Mpondo and Sotho men. Diviner's (Herbalist's) song with clapping and drums.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Ingeji yam = My engagement ring

- Iqela Labavumi bakwa Zwelitsha (Zwelitsha Choral Society), Hugh Tracey

Ingeji yam = My engagement ring

- Iqela Labavumi bakwa Zwelitsha (Zwelitsha Choral Society), Hugh Tracey

Kayuni

- R. T. Mbuluwundi (Composer), Ruben Tankadi Mbuluwundi and group of 5 Tumbuka men (Performers), Hugh Tracey

Libela (We are going to dance)

- R. Chimengwa and 5 Kaonde men, Hugh Tracey

Mabulo andeke (The wings of the aeroplane)

- Samuel Musange, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Samuel Musange , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
  • Language: Tonga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138599 , vital:37654 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR045-01
  • Description: For this dance all the drums are played with sticks and not with hands. The Masabe is danced when a diviner is consulted or called in for a sick person. Msabe dance song with 3 drums. (Mgogo: open, pegged and played with sticks. Masunta and Mpati, open, pegged and played with hands.)
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Maitumbe (Rapture)

- Edmond Cileshe and his wife, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Edmond Cileshe and his wife , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Folk songs, Bemba , Topical songs , Africa Zambia Kitwe f-za
  • Language: bemba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135247 , vital:37251 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0024-03
  • Description: "we are musicians and although some of our words sound a little romantic, our purpose is not to seduce women but to entertain everyone." Most of what he sings is in an old-fashioned Bemba and not readily translatable. The performer is blind, and has been since he was a child, going blind shortly after he learnt to walk, he said. Tuning of the instrument as follows:- 368, 340, 308, 280, 252, 232, 210, 190, 170, 154, 140 vps. Ndelema dance song-Greeting song with Mumamba mbira bell.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Mhlahlo

- Five young Xhosa women and girls, performer not specified, composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Mhlahlo

- Five young Ngqika women and girls (Performers), Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey

Mhlahlo (Greetings)

- Group of old Xhosa me, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of old Xhosa me , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Willowvale f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136015 , vital:37327 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR028-01
  • Description: This song may be sung on any occasion by the older folk. It was explained that every ceremony or "occasion" , is opened by the singing of a "Mhlahlo" , which really means a 'begining' or opening song. Old people's greeting song with clapping
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Ndevinepo ndamwana mdiki (Let me dance myself the small child)

- J. M. Chimpondondo, Ruben Tankadi Mbuluwundi and Tumbuka/Henga men

Pa kufwa bata nali mwaice (When my father died, I was still small

- Kona Mofya, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Kona Mofya , 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/10962/134766 , vital:37202 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0021-14
  • Description: "When my father died I was still small." He mentions that his father died in 1949. Personal lament with Kankowele fan-shaped mbira, with external resonator.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Siyemboka

- Balisa Ita Milopa, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Balisa Ita Milopa , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Mbunda (African people)--Zambia , Luvale (African people) , Luchazi (African people) , Chokwe (African people) , Folk songs, Chokwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Mongu f-za
  • Language: Mbunda , Subiya , Luvale , Luchazi , Chokwe
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184078 , vital:44167 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR184-05
  • Description: This is a dance peformed at feasts of rejoicing such as the majority of a man on taking over from his dead father, or at the maturity of a girl. The recording was made at the Museum at Livingstone where the performers were engaged as full time musicians to play for the museum visitors. (See also TR67-10). The 'slit drum' was cracked and did not emit the usual clear tone of these gongs. The order of appearance od each instrument is as follows:- The tall conical drum starts: then at 10 seconds the slit drum or gong; at 23 seconds the xylophone; at 37 seconds the friction drum. At the end of the recording at 2m. 37 seconds, the friction drum plays alone. Siyemboka dance with Kajakiri conical drum, Singubu rectangular skit drum, Namalwa friction drum and Silimba xylophone
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Wafumuwane mukazgaka wa chihowe

- Alick Mpusi Mutali and Tumbuka/Henga men, Ruben Tankadi Mbuluwundi and Tumbuka/Henga men

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