Chombela
- Authors: Group of 9 Bena Shimba women , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-08-03
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Cite Indigene f-cg
- Language: Luba-Katanga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/245480 , vital:51373 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT534-L156 , Research no. L3I5
- Description: Indigenous folk wedding song, with singing and handclapping accompanied by 3 chipeni singing gourds, 1 basket rattle and a struck bottle.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-08-03
Wadianda wa Bena Shimba
- Authors: Group of 9 Bena Shimba women , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-08-03
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Angola Bulusako f-ao
- Language: Luba-Katanga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/245458 , vital:51371 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT534-L156 , Research no. L3I4
- Description: Indigenous folk song of lament, with singing and handclapping accompanied by 3 chipuri singing gourds, 1 basket rattle and a struck bottle.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-08-03
Wadianda wa Bena Shimba (We are the people of Bena Shimba)
- Authors: Group of 9 Bena Shimba women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Northern Lunda (African people) , Folk music , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Bakwanga f-cg
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139183 , vital:37712 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0047-01
- Description: This group belonged to the Bena Shimba clan. As well as tipping and sometimes singing into their gourds through a length of metal pipe or tube, the gourd-blowers also struck the sides of the gourds with their hands. The gourds of this group were handsomely decorated with metal studs arranged in patterns. When asked when they performed this song, the answer was, "we sing it for funerals, but also on any sad occassion, for example when a man has to pay a large sum of money to another. Lament with 3 singing gourds (Chipuri), 1 basket rattle (-12.54-), hand clapping (-12.03-) and 1 bottle (-12.17-).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957