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Chiyuninzi chikete mukamba (The chiyuninzi owl is sitting on top of the Mukamba tree)

- Samsoni Mwetwe and group of Tonga men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Samsoni Mwetwe and group of Tonga men , 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/10962/138449 , vital:37638 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR043-10
  • Description: Drinking songs are among the most popular items in the men's repertory no doubt because so many idle hours are spent in this convivial pastime while the women work. Mayanza drinking song with 1 Gavanda drum, conical, single, open, pegged and 3 sticks tapped on the side of the drum. with Musuntu drum, cylindrical and clapping.
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Chombela

- Large group of 9 Bena Shimba women, Hugh Tracey

Chundalala chawona mwezi (The moon was already up and the ants were gone)

- Group of 4 Ngoni men, Hugh Tracey

  • 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/10962/137483 , vital:37529 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR038-05
  • Description: The meaning behind the title is that the singer was too late to catch any flying ants, which usually swarm at dusk. By the time the moon was up, the ants had closed their bodies again and there were no ants to catch. Mbanda dance song with Malaza leg rattles
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Cin'goma ca kubaruka

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

Darabo wabandi mashef wetu Bekenga (They are putting up the flag for Chief Bakenga)

- Large group of Kasai women and 6 men, Hugh Tracey

Deborah mntaka mama ngendi tshata nawe (Deborah, my dear, I would marry you had I the cattle)

- Young girls and boys of Durban location, Hugh Tracey

Didiyela Monkalanga Semlangeni

- Women of Kalana location, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Women of Kalana location , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Africa South Africa King Williams Town f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/149994 , vital:38928 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR059-15
  • Description: A diviner arrived in person but declined to sing with the women who were all sitting around on the floor of the hut, about 80 of them. The married women were more soberly dressed than the young unmarried ones and wore their headclothes in the more usual Xhosa 'pile' of cloth on the head, producing a large loose turban-like effect. Diviner's song, with clapping.
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Dikumbi

- Kalochi Malidi and friends, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Kalochi Malidi and friends , 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 Kabompo f-za
  • Language: Mbunda , Subiya , Luvale , Luchazi , Chokwe
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184180 , vital:44183 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR184-11
  • Description: The music of the region which included, a part of north western Northern Rhodesia, Southern Congo and Angola is quite distictive on account of the melodic structure and local sense of harmony. No Bantu other than the group of tribes which inhabit this small area care for Luchazi music, rejoicing it utterly as incomprehensible. The tuning of the Chisanzhi was:- 512, 424, 388, 348, 320,276, 256 vs. The array of notes or reeds was set out four a side and the sequence of the scale was alternate from left to right. The two outside reeds being the same pitch 512 vs. This arrangement is convenient for playing the runs as heard in this recording, with alternating thumbs. Nyakasanga dance song, with Chisanzhi Mbira, of 8 notes, wax weighted, double whistle
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Dilai Manga bulunda bwa tukalembo

- Kabango Prospere and friends, Kabango Prospere, Hugh Tracey

Dlalani (Name of a man)

- 5 young Xhosa men and women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: 5 young Xhosa men and women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Africa South Africa Kentani f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/150741 , vital:39001 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR061-01
  • Description: The song is in praise of a man who has many lovers. This song and the following one were sung by a group of very beautifully dressed young people, the men dancers elegantly blanketed and beaded, the girls wearing pale ochre skirts with many rows of indigo blue braid and their headcloths of indingo blie wool were folded about their heads to form a tall tubular headdress rather like that of Queen Nefertiti. Before the recording started, but whilst the singers were "warming up" there was rather a curious little ceremony which forms part of the dance. One of the girls went around removing the men dancers's headcloths revealing their head bead ornaments. She put their headcloths on her own head, then returned to the line of girls and gave each girl her own young mans' headcloth, which was then tied round the girl's head. A stick specially decorated for dancing is called "Libunguza." Intolombe dance for young people with clapping.
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Donga kuchikongwelo

- Kalochi Malidi and friends, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Kalochi Malidi and friends , 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 Kabompo f-za
  • Language: Mbunda , Subiya , Luvale , Luchazi , Chokwe
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/${Handle} , vital:44180 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR184-10
  • Description: The music of the region which included, a part of north western Northern Rhodesia, Southern Congo and Angola is quite distictive on account of the melodic structure and local sense of harmony. No Bantu other than the group of tribes which inhabit this small area care for Luchazi music, rejoicing it utterly as incomprehensible. The tuning of the Chisanzhi was:- 512, 424, 388, 348, 320,276, 256 vs. The array of notes or reeds was set out four a side and the sequence of the scale was alternate from left to right. The two outside reeds being the same pitch 512 vs. This arrangement is convenient for playing the runs as heard in this recording, with alternating thumbs. Nyakasanga dance song, with Chisanzhi Mbira, of 8 notes, wax weighted, double whistle
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Drum message

- Kasadi Celestine, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Kasadi Celestine , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Slit drums , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Kandakanda f-cg
  • Language: Kanyoka
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134440 , vital:37151 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0020-01
  • Description: The message sent out on this occasion was to call people to come and dance. The Chondo slit drum was made from a hollowed log through a slit, with a rectangular hole at each extremity of the slit. The drum, or gong, is rested on a circular insulation pad as the whole instrument vibrates after the fashion of a xylophone note and the sound would be deadened if it rested directly on the ground. Message calling people together with Chondo slit drum.
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Drum rhythms for "Ngoma dzi ya wontiwe" dance

- Seven Tonga drummers, Hugh Tracey

Dundu we, dundu makevata bina tauni (Football, football is played in the town)

- Large group of Kasai women and 5 men, Hugh Tracey

E mama pilumuna mbundayobe (Turn round, Mama, or face me so that we can dance together

- Group of 6 Luvale men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of 6 Luvale men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luvale (African people) , Folk music , Folk dance music--Angola , Africa Angola Dilolo f-ao
  • Language: Luvale/Chokwe
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137274 , vital:37505 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR036-13
  • Description: The leader of this group of singers had a remarkable face, deeply chiselled features which gave him a stricking masklike appearence - in fact, a face which made it possible to appreciate the veracity of the art of mask-carving in their home region, surrounding the head waters of both the Zambezi and the Kasai rivers. Kukina and Wangoma dance song.
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E-we-we-we babule (Carrying the child)

- H. G. Habanyama and group of Tonga men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: H. G. Habanyama and group of Tonga men , 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/10962/138907 , vital:37684 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR045-12
  • Description: The leader Habanyama, who also played one of the drums, was Chief Councillor to the Gwembe Native Authorities Board and an official of the treasury. The dance song is based upon a woman's song for carrying her baby on her back. The song is made up as the dance proceeds with no set words except the refrain "E-we-we-we babule", so the singer maintained. Chiyema party song for men and women with 2 goblet and I cylindrical drum, hand beaten and 1 Kayanda tin rattle.
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E-ye-ye alawombi tombi (I have lost my hair-do)

- Group of 8 Lunda men and women, Hugh Tracey

E-ye-ye asemanga aweni akweti mana (There are two kinds of women)

- Group of 6 Lunda men. Leader: Conguboyi Ntambo, Hugh Tracey

E-ye-ye kusumbukila kulunda (The Lunda marriage)

- Group of 6 Lunda men. Leader: Conguboyi Ntambo, Hugh Tracey

Ea ema nthodona matsetsela

- Two diviners (Izangoma) and a group of pupils (Performers), Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Two diviners (Izangoma) and a group of pupils (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Sotho , Divination , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-za
  • Language: Southern Sotho
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134250 , vital:37107 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR018-11
  • Description: This Izangoma and his wife were both dressed in scarlet, with skirts lavishly sewn with beads and many bead and "lucky seed" necklaces and bangles and leggings. Bead bands and strands on the head. The learner-izangomaare distinguished by a string of white beads round their heads.The Izangoma were supposed to be finding and throwing a "spirit" out of someone who had ben bewitched. At the end of the recording, one member of the audience remarked:- "There is no tokolosh (imp) here." Much laughter. The words were partly in Zulu, although the performers were actually Sotho.
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