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Tebele ya sila ya gaila (The Ndebele girl is grinding and crushing)

- Group of about 40 women, Hugh Tracey

I have done a film in the moon

- Siboza, Nelson, Montanas Brothers, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Akanji gele maleza (Go and get a razor)

- Young Chewa boys (Under 20 years), Hugh Tracey

I have done a film in the moon

- Nelson Siboza and the Montanas Brothers, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Nelson Siboza and the Montanas Brothers , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, English , Folk music , Africa South Africa Mataffin, Nelspruit, Northern Transvaal f-sa
  • Language: English
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153259 , vital:39425 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR075-11
  • Description: The English in which this song is couched is soemwhat original and unorthodox and so is the nostalgic and ambitious sentiment expressed with its reference to the make-believe world of the cinema-the most important single art from influence in the young lives of the performers. The citrus estate for whom they work and where they were born and brought up provides regular free cinema shows for their emplyoees. Party song with guitar.
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Chimbo changa chasisa chinopa mutsa

- Shumba, January Munenga, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Munendo na munendo

- Members of the Christian mission Separatist Hymn, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Ba ku Mageledi fyo balila

- Lala men and women dancers, Composer unknown, Tracey, Hugh

Fwanda-fwanda dance rhythm

- Lala men and women dancers, Composer unknown, Tracey, Hugh

Maiyongwe

- Munyeme, Joseph, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Mamosi

- Group of Sotho men and women, Composer unknown, Tracey, Hugh

Puma endlini yam

- Cape inkspots of Grahamstown, Ndumo, Irene Buyswa (Soloist), Mpelho, Jury, Tracey, Hugh

Thula ndivile

- Midnight Stars, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Thula ndivile

- Midnight Stars, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Ba ku Mageledi fyo balila

- Lala men and women (Performers), Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey

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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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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Fwanda-fwanda dance rhythm

- Lyson Chibuye, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Lyson Chibuye , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Instrumental music , Drum , Africa Zambia Serenje f-za
  • Language: Lala
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134734 , vital:37195 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0021-10
  • Description: For this recording, the drums performed alone without the singing, but on occasion with the whistles in the background provided by the dancers. Each of the 3 drums can be heard separately with its distinctive tune, the Akanono, the Cimbulunge, and the Fwanda-fwanda, each of which has a fairly complex rhythm and tone pattern to add to the whole resultant. It would appear that the Lala style of drumming are among the most evolved in N. Rhodesia. The stick, as in common in this region adds a percussive rhythm of its own and is beaten on to the body of one of the drums adding to the general welter of sound. The rattle was an improvisation, being a small rectangular tin containing pieces of metal and not a specially constructed article. Drum rhythm with 3 conical drums and 1 stick, whistles and rattle
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Iteyanye (Be prepared)

- Members of the christian Mission to Many lands, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Members of the christian Mission to Many lands , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Folk songs, Bemba , Drinking songs , Africa Zambia Chingola f-za
  • Language: bemba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135335 , vital:37260 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0024-06
  • Description: This hymn is based on Ecclesiastes, Chap. V, verse I (Hymn No. 51) This separatist African Christian Sect compose their own hymns. 2 separate Hymns.Tuning of the instrument as follows:- 368, 340, 308, 280, 252, 232, 210, 190, 170, 154, 140 vps. Mupukumo drinking song with Mumamba mbira bell.
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Kwimbo layetu nqwe tulinqa (If we were singing at home, we would be singing better)

- Group of Lozi men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of Lozi men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Lozi (African people) , Music--Zambia , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Mangu f-sa
  • Language: Lozi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139709 , vital:37771 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR051-01
  • Description: The gist of this song is much the same as that of the Jews who say: "How can we sing the songs of Zion in a strange land?" The tuning of this xylophone can be taken from a recording of each note before the item. Siyomboka dance song with 1 xylophone on a stand, 3 Milupa drums, conical and pegged.
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Maiyongwe (The owl's eggs)

- Joseph Munyeme and friends, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Joseph Munyeme and friends , 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/10962/138261 , vital:37616 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-14
  • Description: "The owl's eggs have flown up. Now has anyone else ever seen such a thing? Ho, ho, ho! I am the only person who has ever seen owl's eggs flying." Tuning of the instrument as follows:- 592, 528, 480, 432, 400, 356, 320, 296, 264, 240 vps. Humorous song with Kankowela mbira, with external resonator.
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