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Famba gathle Changani

- Mubombeni, Makahani, Shangaan girls, Tracey, Hugh

Iya-e

- Mapulana women, Tracey, Hugh

Mwamwangu wotala achikene

- Elena Josio, Chopi women, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Elena Josio , Chopi women , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1963
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Folk songs, Chopi , Chopi (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Zavala f-mz
  • Language: Chopi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/193198 , vital:45308 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR204-05
  • Description: "No one cares for me and they give me leaves to wear instead of cotton clothes." This is the complaint of a rejected wife whose husband is away working, or of a widow who has been thrown back on her own meagre resources. The leader, Elena Josio, calls out her own name at the end of the song. Another explanation was that the dead person had not been properly clothed in a shroud for burial. Funeral song with clapping.
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Phana 'Bantu

- Buthelezi Tribesman, Chief Gatsha Buthelezi, Composer not specified

Chamutengure

- Tapera, Jege, Tracey, Andrew T N

Gumbukumbu

- Tapera, Jege, Tracey, Andrew T N

Musa ndipfuwura

- Bulawayo African Choral Society, Desmond, Jill, Tracey, Hugh

Nansinyosi Ngena

- Amanzimtoti Zulu Choir, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Thaba zimbi

- Spokes Mashiyane His Hum-A- Zoo and Rhythm, Mashiyane, Spokes, Tracey, Hugh

Bidera

- Mudzanani, Baranganani, Tracey, Hugh

Ha Molelle (At Molelle)

- Masipiriti Lekhopa and group of women, Hugh Tracey

Helele! Masupha

- Mapaballo Mabusane and group of women, Hugh Tracey

Hlophe

- Malebaka Moroke, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Malebaka Moroke , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Maseru f-lo
  • Language: Sotho
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/161890 , vital:40687 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0104-10
  • Description: "Death is painful! My husband has remained in Egypt. He is sitting in the water. He is eaten by the crabs. I did not know that that would be his fate. Pako, my child, is weeping." Her husband has gone North to the war (1939-1945). A divining song with clapping
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Dzombe Rija

- Mware, Muzizi, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Mware, Muzizi , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1958-05-28
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Visanza f-mw
  • Language: Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/252245 , vital:52217 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT593-M65 , Research no. M3H8
  • Description: A humourous song about finding the grasshopper accompanied by a one string lute.
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Wamwira mangarangara

- Young Tonga men and women, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Ngoneni ngoneni bakithi

- Ndhlole, Rosalina, Composer unknown, Tracey, Hugh

Tyingabenga

- Group of 5 Nyasa men, Composer unknown, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Group of 5 Nyasa men , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1958-04-02
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Likoma f-mw
  • Language: Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/250215 , vital:51948 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT575-M27 , Research no. M2I5
  • Description: A party song accompanied by concertina, bottle and a double deaded drum.
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Imbube ingonyama

- Five girls of the Queen Mother's village, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Bi-i-i! a Bikoko cigamba (Dirt! Bikoko, rags!)

- Five elderly Chewa women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Five elderly Chewa women , 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/10962/160605 , vital:40482 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR098-06
  • Description: A husband is scolding his wife in public. She replies that he should not scold her in public but at the house because he is in rags himself and she is not like him - he who wears short trousers all in tatters and patches. "Bi-i-i! A Bikoko, rags. Tatters, tatters, tatters! Don't you scold me in front of other people, I am not the same as you because you are all ragged and wear short trousers. Konsolo dance song with clapping.
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Dzombe Rija (My Grasshopper)

- Muzize Mware, Hugh Tracey

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