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Wazizwa zitini zindata (What did you hear of the trouble)

- Elderly men of Chief Kachere, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Elderly men of Chief Kachere , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1959
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Ngoni (African people) , Arts, Malawi , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dedza and Ncheu District, Central Nyasaland f-mw
Language: Ngoni
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154856 , vital:39786 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR084-06
Description: An old regimental song of the Ngoni fighting men during the days when they first came up into Nyasaland during the 19th century. The fighting men were forbidden to marry early in Nguni tribes and this perhaps reflects the same regulation. "What did you hear about the wife of that man? Leave those scandals alone." Regimental song.
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Date Issued: 1959

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Akazi amachenjera (Women are clever)

- Five Chewa men, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Five Chewa men , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1958
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dedza f-mw
Language: Nyanja/Chewa
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160233 , vital:40423 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR097-08
Description: An old song, now only sung by the older men and danced by the men at drinking parties. This wicked old song was much enjoyed by the singers and by their contemporaries and all the older people around. "Women are very clever, they have their own ways of having fun (with other men). M'kwenda dance with 5 Umkwenda friction sticks.
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Date Issued: 1958

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Be Cheketa (Cut my breast)

- Madura Rabecu and G. Coffee, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Madura Rabecu and G. Coffee , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1958
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Kotakota District, Lake Nyasa, Nyasaland f-mw
Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153873 , vital:39533 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR078-10
Description: There was a man who had no children who frequently went on a journey and when he came back home he used to beat his wife every time with a stick until she sang this song when he stopped beating her, as she was so sincere and honest with him as it was not her fault that she had no child. (Story song)
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Date Issued: 1958

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Ye chikoro (Of the school)

- Stephen Runeso Gumbo, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Stephen Runeso Gumbo , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1958
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Karanga (African people) , Folk songs, Shona , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Fort Victoria, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
Language: Shona, Karanga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154265 , vital:39641 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR081-02
Description: A tune after the style of the 'Makolwa' (converts to christianity) with all the simplicity of melody, lack od sublety and false (iambic) accent. It is a clever skit on the style of performance introduced by the readers into most African schools. Humorous song with Kalimba (mbira).
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Date Issued: 1958

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Mtsumeto movement

- Chopi performers (Performers), Komukomu (Composer), Hugh Tracey

Authors: Chopi performers (Performers) , Komukomu (Composer) , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1955
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Orchestral music , Xylophone with orchestra , Rattle (Musical instrument) , Instrumental music , Africa Mozambique Zavala f-mz
Language: Chopi
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/132331 , vital:36828 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR005-09
Description: Ngodo xylophone orchestral dance of Regulo Bangaza with 15 xylophones and 1 rattle (Ngodo of Regulo Banguza Part II)
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Date Issued: 1955

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Dale wandizonda

- Manyanda Nyirenda, Young men and women, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Manyanda Nyirenda , Young men and women , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1950
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Songs, Chewa , Chewa (African people) , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Musical instruments , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Chinteche f-mw
Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja , Tonga (Nyasa)
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184884 , vital:44282 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR187-09
Description: "My darling does not love me any more! Why is this? I put on white clothes but it does not help." The style of singing appears to be influenced by the local schools, and it is doubtful whether this item is wholely Tonga in form. Kwaya dance for young men and women
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Date Issued: 1950

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Ka nabyama nkamurota

- Luhanga Magezi with Haya children, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Luhanga Magezi with Haya children , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1950
Subjects: Music--Uganda , Haya (African people) , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania / Uganda Rurongo f-tz / f-ug
Language: Nyoro , Haya
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171797 , vital:42126 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR143-10
Description: The lute is made of a 4 and a half inch section of the lower part of an Ankole ox horn. These cattle have very large horns. The oval shaped membrane is python skin pegged into the horn and the bridge is reed. The string is of raffia palm. "While asleep one night, I dreamt of my love and had a shock when I awoke to find she was not there." Love song, with Ndingidi one string lute.
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Date Issued: 1950

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Kyuma

- Entenga, Royal drummers, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Entenga, Royal drummers , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1950
Subjects: Music--Uganda , Folk songs, Ganda , Ganda (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Kampala f-ug
Language: Ganda
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170700 , vital:41951 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0137-12
Description: At the time when cotton was first introduced into Uganda (largely by the efforts of an indsutrial missionary, Mr. K. Borup, from 1903 onwards) a friend of Mr. Borup came to stay with him from England and brought with him the idea of erecting a roundabout. It was such a novelty that this song "Kyuma" was composed about it. The set of royal Entenga drums are kept and played in a separate courtyard of the Lubili palace. In this recording the separate parts are brought out one after the other. Each drummer plays his allotted drums from the treble player down to the deep bass player while the others continue to strike the side of their drums with their beaters. The first four men play 3 drums each. The fifth plays one drum, and the sixth plays the two deepest toned bass drums. Drum tune. Set of 15 tuned conical drums, laced, closed, single.
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Date Issued: 1950

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