Showing items 1 - 7 of 7

Kabireka kundende kure

- Kusu women, Performer not specified, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Kabireka kundende kure ("Of what tribe are your father and mother?")

- Kusu women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Kusu women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Kusu (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Manyema f-cg
  • Language: Kusu
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168849 , vital:41653 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0128-02
  • Description: The Kusu are Mohammedans having accepted the domination of the Arab traders on the Luapula River in the 19th century. The simple repetitive songs demonstrating the almost mechanical simplicity of a dance rhythm. They were recorded by Kusu people about 450 miles north of their home district near the Lualaba river about 3 degrees South of the equator. They were working at the elephant training centre at Andudu on the edge of the great Ituri forest. Both items copied from discs. Dance song with one wooden slit drum, one small conical drum, and one bass conical laced drum.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1952

Kekema - Kekema

- Kusu women, Performer not specified, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Kekema-kekema (Do not be afraid)

- Kusu women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Kusu women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Kusu (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Manyema f-cg
  • Language: Kusu
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168840 , vital:41652 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0128-01
  • Description: The Kusu are Mohammedans having accepted the domination of the Arab traders on the Luapula River in the 19th century. The simple repetitive songs demonstrating the almost mechanical simplicity of a dance rhythm. They were recorded by Kusu people about 450 miles north of their home district near the Lualaba river about 3 degrees South of the equator. They were working at the elephant training centre at Andudu on the edge of the great Ituri forest. Both items copied from discs. Dance song with one wooden slit drum, one small conical drum, and one bass conical laced drum.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1952

Kilumbu I

- Kusu women, Performer not specified, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Kilumbu I and Kilumbu II

- Kusu women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Kusu women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Kusu (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Manyema f-cg
  • Language: Kusu
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168858 , vital:41654 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0128-03
  • Description: The 'Diviner' was a young man dressed in a full cotton skirt, leaving the torso bare, and wide ropes of beads crossed diagonally across the chest. He wore a red silk head-kerchief and was accompanied by a small boy dressed in similar fashion. Although the singers said, at the time, that the name of the song was "Kilumbu" it would appear from the recording that it is more correctly "Kaiyombo." Recorded at the Camp de Nepoko, Elephant Training Centre, Ituri Forest, Andudu. Copied from disc. Two Songs welcoming the Diviner. One wooden cylindrical slit drum, one small conical laced drum and one small bass drum.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1952

Kilumbu II

- Kusu women, Performer not specified, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

  • 1
  • Disclaimer
  • Privacy
  • Copyright
  • Contact