Bondo
- Authors: Mamba Desire , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Luba-Lulua , Luba (African people)--Music , Cultural anthropology , Luba-Lulua language , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Kabinda f-cg
- Language: Luba/Lulua
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136966 , vital:37473 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR035-06
- Description: The song is sung on the occassion of the visit of an important man. "In other places they have greeted me with songs and rejoicing, here you must do the same or even better." The scale of the instrument as follows:- 472, 448, 356. 320, 264, 236, 224, 178, 160, 132. Greeting song for a Chief or notable, with 2 box chisanzhi, 1 chisanzhi-chinene, and 1 basket rattle.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Mamba Desire , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Luba-Lulua , Luba (African people)--Music , Cultural anthropology , Luba-Lulua language , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Kabinda f-cg
- Language: Luba/Lulua
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136966 , vital:37473 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR035-06
- Description: The song is sung on the occassion of the visit of an important man. "In other places they have greeted me with songs and rejoicing, here you must do the same or even better." The scale of the instrument as follows:- 472, 448, 356. 320, 264, 236, 224, 178, 160, 132. Greeting song for a Chief or notable, with 2 box chisanzhi, 1 chisanzhi-chinene, and 1 basket rattle.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Izobongo zika ndlinkulu (Praises of the Chief's wife)
- Group of elderly Mpondo women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Group of elderly Mpondo women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Praise , Africa South Africa Lusikisiki f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136434 , vital:37376 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR031-03
- Description: The leader of this group was praising the Chief's wife. She also paraded up and down in front of the singers mimicking the actions of milking a cow. It was explained that this meant she had been given a cow.- and every now and then she looked round and waved her arm as if to frighten off a thief. Praise song and chant with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Group of elderly Mpondo women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Praise , Africa South Africa Lusikisiki f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136434 , vital:37376 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR031-03
- Description: The leader of this group was praising the Chief's wife. She also paraded up and down in front of the singers mimicking the actions of milking a cow. It was explained that this meant she had been given a cow.- and every now and then she looked round and waved her arm as if to frighten off a thief. Praise song and chant with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
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