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Kudanda ula

Kwaca milombe kalingilila (Now the sun is rising, I must go into the bush and cut trees)

  • Authors: Group of 4 Ngoni men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk songs , Songs, Nyanja , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Africa Zambia Fort Jameson f-za
  • Language: Nyanja , Nsenga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137492 , vital:37530 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR038-06
  • Description: The leg rattles are made out of the hard shell fruit of the Vitanta tree. It is an edible fruit which is picked when ripe, boiled in a pot and then the seeds are extracted through a small hole at the spot where the stem joins the fruit. It is then dried. A number of pin head size holes are made in the sides "to let the sound out" , they say, a second hole is made opposite the stem hole and the shell are then filled with canna seeds or small stones and strung onto sticks. Four rows of shells of about 6-8 each are needed to make one leg rattle which is attached to the calf of the leg by two straps, one below the knee and the other at the ankle. Mbanda dance song with Malaza leg rattles.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Liya kumuchoma wa kanga (Without Liya the dance is not a success)

Mkwaze

Nabo aba Ngoni (Here are the Ngoni)

Ngagashupeke ngi mabunu (We are being trouble by Boers)

  • Authors: Group of 14 Ngoni men and chorus of women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk songs , Songs, Nyanja , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Africa Zambia Fort Jameson f-za
  • Language: Nyanja , Nsenga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137611 , vital:37542 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR038-12
  • Description: This was probably composed long ago when the people of Mzilikazi were being driven out of the Transvaal by the Boers in the middle of the nineteenth century. The singers agreed that this was a Ndebele song not of the Ngoni songs - but they said their languages were so similar that they had adopted it. Ngoma dance song with stamping and 1 pair of leg rattles.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Ngoma yalila mphela (The drum keeps on beating)

  • Authors: Group of 12 Ngoni women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk songs , Songs, Nyanja , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Africa Zambia Fort Jameson f-za
  • Language: Nyanja , Nsenga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137465 , vital:37527 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR038-03
  • Description: "My husband likes to roam, so I shall break his bicycle." These women were Ngoni, but singing in Nsenga the language of their forebears. The singing of the Ngoni is especially interesting for the fact that they sing in 2 distinct styles, that of the Zulu (Ngoni), their father's tribe and that of their mother's tribes who were conquered by the Ngoni. Both strains are still clearly defined after nearly a century of integration. Women's party dance song with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Nyamwaritsa kurira ndopasa dza bwio (If you do well, I'll give you something good)

Nyasalandi kutari (Nyasaland is far away)

Sipenbela nkosi (We are waiting for the Chief)

  • Authors: Group of 14 Ngoni men and chorus of women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk songs , Songs, Nyanja , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Africa Zambia Fort Jameson f-za
  • Language: Nyanja , Nsenga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137620 , vital:37543 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR038-13
  • Description: This was probably composed long ago when the people of Mzilikazi were being driven out of the Transvaal by the Boers in the middle of the nineteenth century. The singers agreed that this was a Ndebele song not of the Ngoni songs - but they said their languages were so similar that they had adopted it. Ngoma dance song with stamping and 1 pair of leg rattles.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Siyakulindila utinina? (What are you waiting for?)

  • Authors: Group of 14 Ngoni men abd chorus of women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk songs , Songs, Nyanja , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Africa Zambia Fort Jameson f-za
  • Language: Nyanja , Nsenga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137547 , vital:37536 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR038-12
  • Description: The song belongs to "umgubo" or, in Zulu "ihubo" type of regimental singing. They were sung by the Mpezeni regiment, in 1920. The last of the age groups to be called officially a regiment by the Ngoni tribe. Ngoma dance song with stamping and 1 pair of leg rattles.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Ukhosi wako biba ugodhliliwan ngubani (Who is going to take over the chieftainship)

I may jump

  • Authors: Chaminuka Band , Msarurgwa, August , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1952-02-20
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Bulawayo f-rh
  • Language: Nyanja
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/210749 , vital:47535 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT153-D8 , Research no. F2A12
  • Description: Town dance song accompanied by banjo, saxophone, shaker and clave.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1952-02-20

Johnny's getting married

  • Authors: Chaminuka Band , Tamuwhela, Ralph , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1952-02-20
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Bulawayo f-rh
  • Language: Nyanja
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/210781 , vital:47539 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT153-D8 , Research no. F2A13
  • Description: Town dance song accompanied by banjo, saxophone, shaker and shaker.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1952-02-20

Mwanakadzi

Dziko lapansi ndiroipa

Johnny's gettin' married

Kua'ntu tunga

Mwanakadzi

Nkhondo Yawazungu

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