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Tlotlo ena mo Modimo

- Music workshop participants, Group Composition, Dargie, Dave

Baba wethu

- Workshop participants, Moyo, David, Dargie, Dave

Mawudungyiswe Nkosi

- Music workshop participants, Ngcoko, B. E. P., Dargie, Dave

Mawundunyiswe Nkosi

- Music workshop participants, Ngcoko, B. E. P., Dargie, Dave

Mawundunyiswe Nkosi

- Music workshop participants, Ngcoko, B. E. P., Dargie, Dave

Nkosi yiba nenceba kuthi

- Xhosa composers workshop participants, Mpotolo, Dargie, Dave

Umlindo wesililo

- Church workshop participants, Dlungwane, Pius, Dargie, Dave

  • Authors: Church workshop participants , Dlungwane, Pius , Dargie, Dave
  • Date: 1977
  • Subjects: Folk music , Sacred music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Red Acres sa
  • Language: isiZulu
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/378692 , vital:67254 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DDC076a-05
  • Description: Zulu church choral hymn accompanied by drumming and unspecified struck percussion. Umlindo wesililo refers to the period of time prior (usually the night before) to a person's funeral wherein close female family members will sit and lament the deceased in a closed room
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  • Date Issued: 1977

Uzuko kuThixo enyangweni

- Music workshop participants, Composer not specified, Dargie, Dave

Yena Ngumdiliya thina singamasebe

- Xhosa festival workshop participants, Mpombo, Jane, Dargie, Dave

Yena Ngumdiliya thina singamasebe

- Xhosa festival workshop participants, Mpombo, Jane, Dargie, Dave

Ke ke mmela ke ke

- Mashego, Barney (Chief), Four Pedi women, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Mashego, Barney (Chief) , Four Pedi women , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1963
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Pedi (African people) , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Bushbuck Ridge f-sa
  • Language: Pedi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/188684 , vital:44776 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR195-03
  • Description: This district is plagued, they say, by men who come home from employment eleswhere, eat the food of their relatives until it is all finished without doing a stroke of work to help, and then disappear from pastures new, leaving their families starving. "The day we pounded earth, pounding it for the bearded. Those who come in putting their beards in the food." (i.e. doing no work to produce it, but eating it only). The meaning behind this song is that the lazy men desearve only pounded earth, not good grain to eat. Pounding song with mortar and three pestles
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  • Date Issued: 1963

The Ngodo of Regulo Mavila

- Shambini, Tracey, Hugh

Godo

- Shumba, Esteni, Group of Karanga, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Godo (Bones)

- Esteri Shumba and 4 Karanga women, Hugh Tracey

Likhuba (Drum Rhythm)

- Dance with nine tuned drums, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Dance with nine tuned drums , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mpatsa f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/157919 , vital:40113 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR093-03
  • Description: The drums are weighted with castor oil bean paste. It is removed from the drum head immediately after playing, or, they say, it would rot the membrane. The tuning of the drums has to be done afresh each time. "Misili killed a buck, so the people were pleased to have the meat." Likhuba dance with eight tuned drums.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Umuganwa

- Bijyiyobyenda, Simon, 8 Hutu men, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Kankola kame

- Group of Lunda women, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Nyele

- 17 Tonga men, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Khoana e khunoana

- Group of young Sotho herdboys, Composer unknown, Tracey, Hugh

Nimwe kuya kusilya mukaniuzile amboni

- Group of Nsenga women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of Nsenga women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Petauke f-za
  • Language: Nsenga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184399 , vital:44218 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR185-01
  • Description: The singers sang with a completely composed and sedate manner, and listened to the playback without a smile, but applauded themselves enthusiastically at the end as did the crowd who shouted "Very good." "You people of the watch tower, when you go across the river (Zambesi) go and ask them where my brother sleeps. The people of Satani have lied that people who died go to heaven (and do not stay here in the country of Petauke)." The idea that the souls of the dead leave the familiar earth and go to a far place 'heaven' is repugnant to some African people even though they may be Christian in name. They prefer the more homely resting place of the home country and its well known features. Lament
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  • Date Issued: 1957
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