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Tanganyika

- chapi, Yobwa, Gogo men and women, Tracey, Hugh

Tanganyika Part I

- Chapi, Yobwa with Gogo men and women, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Chapi, Yobwa with Gogo men and women , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Gogo (African people) , Songs, Gogo , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Mvumi f-tz
  • Language: Gogo
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/174272 , vital:42461 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR155-04
  • Description: "Let us play the Zeze lute so that we can remember our old songs. Do not sing in a hurry. Take your time. We, the Gogo are singing in Tanganyika the land of our birth. Why do people sing all my tunes?" A lovely slow chant in which all the people joined, men, women and children. It is clear that the Gogo are a poetic people with great lyrical ability. The local composer comes forward and starts each line for the people to follow. The song was recorded out in the open in the village of Mvumi without rehearsal of any kind. It seems likely that it could have continued almost indefinitely, but the exigencies of the recording apparatus and the fact that it was taken before the advent of long playing records made abbreviation necessary. The unexpected loud passages were unfortunately slightly over modulated but, with the technical faults except this recording gives a fair idea of the artistic ca[abilities of these remarkable performers. The recording is in two parts, the second pitched lower than the first and accompanied by a flute obbligato which has little if any direct bearing on the melody itself. Nindo praise song with Mulanzi flute in Part II.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Tanganyika Part II

- Chapi, Yobwa with Gogo men and women, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Chapi, Yobwa with Gogo men and women , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Gogo (African people) , Songs, Gogo , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Mvumi f-tz
  • Language: Gogo
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/174278 , vital:42462 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR155-05
  • Description: "Let us play the Zeze lute so that we can remember our old songs. Do not sing in a hurry. Take your time. We, the Gogo are singing in Tanganyika the land of our birth. Why do people sing all my tunes?" A lovely slow chant in which all the people joined, men, women and chidldren. It is clear that the Gogo are a poetic people with great lyrical ability. The local composer comes forward and starts each line for the people to follow. The song was recorded out in the open in the village of Mvumi without reharsal of any kind. It seems likely that it could have continued almost indefinitely, but the exigencies of the recording apparatus and the fact that it was taken before the advent of long playing records made abbreviation necessary. The unexpected loud passages were unfortunately slightly over modulated but, with the technical faults except this recording gives a fair idea of the artistic ca[abilities of these remarkable performers. The recording is in two parts, the second pitched lower than the first and accompanied by a flute obligato which has little if any direct bearing on the melody itself. Nindo praise song with Mulanzi flute in Part II.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Title not specified

- Gogo men, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Title not specified

- Gogo women, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Umefika Marangu

- Gadwin, Yuspina, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Gadwin, Yuspina , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Chaga (African people) , Songs, Gogo , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Marangu f-tz
  • Language: Gogo
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/174336 , vital:42468 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR155-11
  • Description: "You have come to Marangu." Marangu is the small village on the lower slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro. The first of these songs may not be an authentic Chaga song, but is rather similiar to songs in the schools. Temo dance song for girls with stamping and bass drums, laced, played with sticks, (-14.05303-).
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Warina Nindo Wase Mwikalange Mumanyile

- Chedeza, Malaika, Gogo men and women, Tracey, Hugh

Warina nindo wase mwikalange mumanyile

- Chedeza, Malaika, Gogo men and women, Tracey, Hugh

Wavina Nindo wose mwikalage mumanyile

- Chedega, Malaika, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Chedega, Malaika , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Gogo (African people) , Songs, Gogo , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Dodoma f-tz
  • Language: Gogo
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/174300 , vital:42464 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR155-07
  • Description: "You dancers of Nindo, be ready and strengthen your lines. Our enemies are coming to fight us." A song praising the young men in such a way as to produce national solidarity. The stamping dance with the rhythms enhanced by the sound of the leg bells is a most effective display both in sight and sound. Nindo praise song with stamping (-12.4-), Ndwala bells (-12.55-), horn and whistles.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Maganya Kalila Zanswelo

- Bota, Mtonya, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

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