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Authors: Edmond Cileshe and his wife , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Folk songs, Bemba , Topical songs , Africa Zambia Kitwe f-za
Language: bemba
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135247 , vital:37251 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0024-03
Description: "we are musicians and although some of our words sound a little romantic, our purpose is not to seduce women but to entertain everyone." Most of what he sings is in an old-fashioned Bemba and not readily translatable. The performer is blind, and has been since he was a child, going blind shortly after he learnt to walk, he said. Tuning of the instrument as follows:- 368, 340, 308, 280, 252, 232, 210, 190, 170, 154, 140 vps. Ndelema dance song-Greeting song with Mumamba mbira bell.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

Authors: Edmond Cileshe and his wife , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Folk songs, Bemba , Topical songs , Africa Zambia Mufulira f-za
Language: bemba
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135201 , vital:37247 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0024-01
Description: "You with your large paunches you sit about at the court, but you do nothing.-You, you Chiefs, you do not dare to say anything, for fear of being deposed. (These words are addressed to certain Chiefs at the Court of the Chitimakulu, Paramount chief of teh Bemba tribe). "And you Mr. Tom, why do you not tell the honey-bird to fly before you to England, to tell them you are on your way, with your wife and children." This allusion is to a certain trader, Thom or Tom, whose business was said to have been ruined by the activities of the African National Congress, a local political body. The player was blind, and sang with his wife. Tuning of the instrument as follows:- 368, 340, 308, 280, 252, 232, 210, 190, 170, 154, 140 vps. Song concerning affairs of tribe, with 'Mumamba' mbira bell.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

Authors: Edmond Cileshe and his wife , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Folk songs, Bemba , Topical songs , Africa Zambia Mufulira f-za
Language: bemba
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135210 , vital:37249 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0024-02
Description: "My wife, Namulenga, I did not marry you for your beauty. Cook some food now, the cock has already crowed." The player was blind and his wife sat beside him tapping the back of his instrument with a stick and singing. He himself held his Mumamba on the ground and beat the base of it with his right knee as he played. Tuning of the instrument as follows:- 368, 340, 308, 280, 252, 232, 210, 190, 170, 154, 140 vps. Nfunkutu dance song with Mumamba mbira bell.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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