Mishia mpindi akamsanga
- Authors: Thungu Giti with Sukuma men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Nyamwezi (African people) , Sukuma (African people) , Folk songs, Sukuma , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Shinyanga f-tz
- Language: Nyamwezi , Sukuma
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173531 , vital:42381 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR151-12
- Description: "You have found me well prepared with my dance charms which will defeat you." The Sukuma are given to forming socities or parties for dancing and singing in competition with each other. The use of charms to help them win are frequently part of the procedure. If irrational i material principal these charms are undoubtedly efficient in concentrating mental effort in the desired direction. This item is an interesting example of lengthy recitative in unision or close parallel. Puba dance song for men and women.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Zagambayo mabilo mabilo (Run, Zagambayo, run)
- Authors: Thungu Giti with Sukuma men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Nyamwezi (African people) , Sukuma (African people) , Folk songs, Sukuma , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Nzega f-tz
- Language: Nyamwezi , Sukuma
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173540 , vital:42382 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR151-13
- Description: Zagambayo had a friendly fight with another man in which it had been arranged that the loser should pay a cow. Zagambayo lost and was told to run and fetch his cow. The Nzega is the leaping dance action where the men leap into the air in time with the music. Puba dance song for men and women.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950