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Ga a nelwe Kolobe (Give the pig to no one)

- Lentswe Male and 20 Kgatla men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Lentswe Male and 20 Kgatla men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Saulspoort f-sa
  • Language: Tswana/Kgatla
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166014 , vital:41307 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0116-11
  • Description: "Give the pig to no one. Warn those dogs, Kolobe, and give the pig to no one. Pig is not given to one in confinement. Give it to no one. Hoki has not had some." This song reflects the play of words on the name Kolobe and its literal translation, meaning 'pig'. The song's origin is obsecure. There is little hunting now-a-days and there are few buck or pig left in the vivinity. This song is well-known, it appears, among most, if not all, Tswana tribes. Hunting song.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Masilo tswalela kgoro (Masilo close the gate)

- Jemina Pheha and 24 women, Hugh Tracey

Kumtandizi (Mtandizi is not sorry)

- Eight Chewa women, Hugh Tracey

Mangani mikeka, muzika kwanu (You take your clothes and go away)

- Alfred Phiri, Hugh Tracey

Phakachere (Under the Kachere tree)

- Men and women, Hugh Tracey

Ye Muka Ingwababa Fute Unina (My wife is just like her mother)

- Yelanjani Matula, Hugh Tracey

Cheyu chamunganda

- Composer not specified, Group of Tumbuka men (Performers), Hugh Tracey

Malilela imango ingasiyo yako

- Nontwintwi and Annie Macholweni (Performers), Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey

U'tengisa nge misopu (You are selling the beadwork)

- Group of Mpondo men and girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of Mpondo men and girls , 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/10962/136775 , vital:37419 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR033-13
  • Description: One of the young girls added the deep guttural rhythmic sounds peculiar to Xhosa singing. The singers were each of them singing into a slightly vibrating cupped hand. They were all lying on their stomachs on the grass wrapped in their blankets and looking like basking seals. Dance song for young people.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Yazula inkabi endxla

- Group of 7 young men (Performers), Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey

Pongolo movement

- Kumbani, Hafu, Chopi perfomers, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Kumbani, Hafu , Chopi perfomers , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1955
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Musical instruments--Africa , Instrumental music , Africa Mozambique Inharrime f-mz
  • Language: Chopi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/131791 , vital:36750 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR001-11 , Field card no. H1K-6
  • Description: The leader of this Timbila Orchestra is a well known player and composer, Hafu Kumbani, who has a large number of new Timbila tunes to his credit. The title Bandametu womgeniso appears to be commonly used by the eastern rather than the western Chopi. The Chopi clans which live to the east of the main body of the tribe of the Inhambane District and to speak a distinctive dialect. Those who know the Chopi well, claim that this can also be detected in the style of their plyaing and dancing and in the tunings of their Timbila xylophones. Regulo Nyankowango is considered to be one of the minor chiefs under Regulo Mikumbi of the Inharrime District. Living as they do to the east of the central Chopi, their dialect is distinctive and influenced by the GiTonga of the Inhambane District. Movement from the Ngodo xylophone orchestral dance of Regulo Nyankowongo with 14 xylophones, 2 rattles and one horn.
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  • Date Issued: 1955

Amyindre dobuzindrine

- Njenje abd Tipoyi carriers, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Njenje abd Tipoyi carriers , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Mangbetu , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Medje f-cg
  • Language: Mangbetu
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166870 , vital:41413 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0120-14
  • Description: "I shall be all alone, when I lie in the grave." The theme of death is common in songs of this part of the Congo and also in Uganda. Until recently the Medje were notorious for cannibalism. Strangers, it is said, had little chance of emerging from the Medje palm forests alive or enjoying a lonely grave. Tipoyi carrying song with basket rattle.
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  • Date Issued: 1952

Fila II

- Group of Luba Men, Hugh Tracey

Kabange

- Group of Luba men and women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of Luba men and women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Kinkondje f-rh
  • Language: Luba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/181991 , vital:43788 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR177-09
  • Description: The four drummers were the chief singers together with their women. Malimba 2 xylophones, on frames without resonators.. 3 goblet drums, once called Itumba and the others Mutumbwe. The Itumba drum was a closed drum with a mirliton fixed into its side, 20" high and with 12 1/2" membrane. The Mutumbwe drums were both weighted with paste to lower their pitch, and had similar mirlitons. The large slit drum, Kunri, was insulated from the ground as it had no legs. In this respect the slit drums behave physically like a xylophone note and must be supported at the two nodes or they will not sound properly. Budye dance, with 2 xylophones, 3 conical drums and 1 slit drum
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  • Date Issued: 1952

Naniyamwenda

- Nekemiya Nanywamu and Kasani Byansi, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Nekemiya Nanywamu and Kasani Byansi , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Soga (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Iganga f-ug
  • Language: Soga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171217 , vital:42032 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR140-07
  • Description: A song about the dreadful results of not obeying your parents. A badly brought up disobedient girl is bound to be unhappily married and when her husband beats her for not putting salt in the vegetables, for example, she would get no sympathy from her parents. Morality song, with Ntongoli 8 string lyre and Ndingidi 1 string lute (-10-54-).
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  • Date Issued: 1952

Oya bouwe atye ingane laoto

- Saidi Kikongo and Wagenya fishermen, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Saidi Kikongo and Wagenya fishermen , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Genya (African people) , Nande (Congolese (Democratic Republic) and Ugandan people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Stanleyville f-cg
  • Language: Nande
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168613 , vital:41630 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0127-04
  • Description: The canoes of the Wagenya are large dugouts, often 60 feet in length and about 30 to 50 inches in width. They can hold as many as 70 to 100 paddlers on festive occasions and have been made famous of recent years by their appearance in films such as "Sanders of the River" and "Savage Splendour." The large slit drum was made out of a single log of wood measuring 25" across and 5 feet long. The slit was 4" to 4 and a half wide and 4 feet long. It was insulated from the ground by resting it on an old motor truck tyre which nowadays often replaces the less permanent bands of grass or other fibrous matter which are necessary if the wooden gong or slit drum is to be resound to full advantage. The gong should be supported like a xylophone note at the natural nodes, so as to prevent muffling the sound. The larger slit drum is called Mongungu. The smaller slit drum is called Mongungu Ngole. Other Genya drums wih membranes are called Lotongo Ngoma and Uke, but the wooden gongs or slit drums are the more numerous, being used not only for dancing but for sending messages as well. These items were copied from discs in the Reference Library section of the I.L.A.M. as the original tapes were not available. Consequently disc surface noise is apparent in some places. Paddling song with large slit drum, small slit drum, conical laced drum.
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  • Date Issued: 1952

Arap Kibaigong (The son of Kibaigong)

- Kipkemo Arap Sitonik and Kepkoske Arap Chepkwony, Hugh Tracey

Arwa Otieno

- Ogalo Mirasi, Hugh Tracey

Eee, Joilome Mkamae!

- Nyamuula Mtani with Jita men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Nyamuula Mtani with Jita men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Kwaya (African people) , Jita (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania f-tz
  • Language: Kwaya , Jita
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/175094 , vital:42539 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR157-17
  • Description: The words of such a song sung to the Cheche lute are usually impromptu and frequently meaningless. The words of the dance are broadly translated, "Let them speak about you, let them have their say." The Kwaya/Jita people live on the South East of the Lake Victoria Nyanza and are neighbours of the Sukuma to South. Ndongo dance songs for men and women, with Cheche 1 string bowed lute.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Kaburora akaiba muhogo

- Ezekeri Ndamanyire and Nyoro boys and girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Ezekeri Ndamanyire and Nyoro boys and girls , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Hoima f-ug
  • Language: Nyoro
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169901 , vital:41836 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0133-16
  • Description: "Kaburora stale cassava roots from the field." The theft of standing crops was in the old days considered one of the worst forms of theft and was severely punished. The sound of the leg rattles makes a very jolly accompaniment to the simple song. Orunyege dance song for boys and girls, with Ebinyege leg rattles.
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  • Date Issued: 1950
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