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Eh, Pula aene, e le mogogo (Let it rain)

- Tietse Modisane and group of about 30 women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Tietse Modisane and group of about 30 women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Motswedi f-sa
  • Language: Tswana/Hurutshe
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165565 , vital:41257 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0113-06
  • Description: "Let it rain! Let it rain so that it washes all the rubbish away with its waters!" The Western Transvaal has inadequate rainfall in many places as low as 15 to 18 inches a year, gradually becoming reduced towards the West and the Kalahari Desert where recently in one region no rain at all has fallen for five years. This accounts for the numerous rain songs to be found among the Tswana tribes who have good cause for anxiety for their crops each year. No rain songs are sung in high rainfall areas. The praise lines or verses are set lines, not impromptu. The words are both archaic and poetic used only for Leboko. The clapping is ritual, but it is always correct to clap the hands when asking for something. The Moroka or rainmaker was the officiant in a rain-making ceremony. Rain song, with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Litsoanya II (A nice song)

- Julius Mochekoana and Leboea March, Hugh Tracey

Sikati wena ilya bamba lo fourpiece shiya lo two piece la lo ma piccanie (When you eat take four pieces, but leave two for the children)

- Elias Silaule and Edward Mawelele, Hugh Tracey

Mumabale chonga (That one is my friend)

- Masaria and other Tonga women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Masaria and other Tonga women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
  • Language: Tonga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138154 , vital:37600 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-05
  • Description: This song were taken during the actual grinding of millet into meal outside a hut. The millet was a fine brown variety known as Munga in Rhodesia. This small work song is sometimes well known by everyone in the village and commonly used by the women as they grind their corn on the stone outside their hut, or they are individual compositions without a name and with few words to the lyrics. Grinding song accompanied by the sound of grindstone.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Ali wanyola manwa

- Musolwa and Gishu men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Musolwa and Gishu men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Gisu (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Mbale f-ug
  • Language: Masaba (Gisu, Kisu, Dadiri, Buya)
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169435 , vital:41750 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0131-04
  • Description: This song is about a greedy man who eats prodigous amounts of cassava porridge. Wherever he went he always asked for more cassava. The bowl is a wooden platter commonly used for serving food, turned upside down ad beaten with two sticks.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Choli

- Bachumirwa Tugwenderwa, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Bachumirwa Tugwenderwa , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Hoima f-ug
  • Language: Nyoro
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169680 , vital:41787 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0132-09
  • Description: This is an interesting instrument as it was bought from Aluur, who tune their instruments to a four interval scale. The first song is about the father who looked after his daughter strictly to the disamy of the lads of the willage. The second is about a vain girl who preened herself and walked along the road to attract people. Topical song with Likembe.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Eda iwe, zomela

- Mwenela Kaunda, Tumbuka girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Mwenela Kaunda , Tumbuka girls , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mzimba f-mw
  • Language: Tumbuka
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/185159 , vital:44334 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR188-13
  • Description: Pounding with three pestles to one mortar. Six or seven girls stand around the mortar and take turns tp pound. One girl on each repeat of the tune, throws her pestle up into the air to the next on her left, this girl catches it in mid air and first pounds lightly on the edge of the mortar (the sound of which can be clearly heard) and then in the mortar until it is her turn to throw it on to her neighbor who repeats the process. Since the pestles weigh about 20 lbs. each, this game at the mortar takes considerable skill and strength. Pounding song with mortar and two pestles
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Meri I

- Ndulu wa Ngolanie with Kamba boys and girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Ndulu wa Ngolanie with Kamba boys and girls , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Kamba , Kamba (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Machakos f-ke
  • Language: Kamba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/176196 , vital:42671 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR161-03
  • Description: A young man leads his troupe of girl and boy dancers who all blow whistles. The dance largely consists of the shaking of shoulders and advancing towards ones partner, bending forward and placing the cheeks together while continuing to shake the shoulders. The dance is a fine spectacle but poor music. The second part of the dance is done with whistles only and without the drum. The Kamba, in common with a few other Bantu tribes appear to be able to tolerate deafining noises in their dance music such as this shrill cacophony of whistles played into each others ears. Mbeni and Kibebe dance song for boys and girls, with Kithembe conical drum, one bunch of Malepe hand bells.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Mganga mgogope

- Maria Semuyala with Hehe women, Hugh Tracey

Waboya

- Wamimbi Magombe and Gishu men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Wamimbi Magombe and Gishu men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Gisu (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Mbale f-ug
  • Language: Masaba (Gisu, Kisu, Dadiri, Buya)
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169516 , vital:41759 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0131-13
  • Description: Boys who are ready for initiation are warned in this song of the pain they muct experience and exhorted to be brave. Imbalu circumcision dance with Mungiri leg bells, European whistle and side blown horn, open.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Zamapembe sesiyandinda

- Kiti Shunga, Ngoni men and women, Nsenga women, Hugh Tracey

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