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Maitumbe

  • Authors: Cileshe, Edmond , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1957-07-17
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kitwe f-za
  • Language: Bemba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/241951 , vital:50986 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT501-L122 , Research no. L2W7
  • Description: Ndelema dance song as well as a greeting song played with a mbira bell, about musicians and thier different intentions of romance and to seduce a women, the performer has been blind since a young age.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957-07-17

Nalinamayo nshale chula

  • Authors: Kasumali, Stephen Tsotsi , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1957-07-17
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kitwe f-za
  • Language: Aushi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/241907 , vital:50982 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT500-L121 , Research no. L2W3
  • Description: Topical song accompanied by guitar and bottle, about his mother.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957-07-17

Samukonga lunga lymbala lya Meli

Katikalepuke katikatobeke

  • Authors: Matafwana, Isaac , Sunkutu , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1957-07-06
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Mulfulira f-za
  • Language: Bemba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/237724 , vital:50546 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT472-L93 , Research no. L2M14
  • Description: Topical song with guitar accompaniment.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957-07-06

Lala drum rhythms

Lala drum rhythms

Chembere luimbolo

  • Authors: Chukwa, Notis , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1957-06-24
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Zambezi Valley f-za
  • Language: Tonga (Zambia)
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/233766 , vital:50125 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT457-L78 , Research no. L2F4
  • Description: Indigenous self-delectative folk song with singing accompanied by a gourd-resonated kalumbo bow with a mirliton.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957-06-24

E-we-we-we babule

  • Authors: Habanyana, H. G. , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1957-06-23
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Zambezi Valley f-za
  • Language: Tonga (Zambia)
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/233703 , vital:50118 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT456-L77 , Research no. L2E12
  • Description: A chiyema party dance song for men and women based on a womans song for carrying her baby on her back accompanied by drums and a kayanda tin rattle.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957-06-23

Ndinike inkomo zolobolo

  • Authors: Group of Mpondo women , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1957-05-23
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Tabankulu f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/228438 , vital:49558 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT427-L48 , Research no. L1U9
  • Description: A girls' initiation song, accompanied by clapping, demanding the lobola back from someone who has it, .
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957-05-23

Ingoboyama boke

Lamnandi ugolohlanq

  • Authors: Citaumvano, Nomaswiti , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1957-05-21
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Lusikisiki f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/228225 , vital:49534 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT419-L40 , Research no. L1S8
  • Description: Praise song about that which has fetched a person played with guitar.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957-05-21

Umyeyezelo

No doli wami

  • Authors: The blue notes , Alexander, Olive , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1957-04-29
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Grahamstown f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/227600 , vital:49466 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT384-J5 , Research no. L1C8
  • Description: A topical song about a girl wanting to leaving home accompanied by saxophone, trumpet, guitar and piano .
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957-04-29

Amapoyisa ahlal' esangweni

Bino Siabungu balu oba mboma, wewe (We 'honour' those who killed the mother of Siabungu)

  • Authors: Group of Tonga men and 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/10962/138035 , vital:37586 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR041-07
  • Description: The sound of the women's feet can be heard on the hard dusty ground. "Honour" is used in the opposite sense, really meaning "hate." In this song the usual African belief that death is caused by ill-wishing or magic, is implied. Funeral dance song with ensemble of Nyele end-blown antelope horns and Ngoma drums.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957

Kame-lo

Katikalepuke, katikatobeke (About to snap, about to break)

  • Authors: Isaac Matafwana and Sunkutu , 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/10962/135125 , vital:37239 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0023-07
  • Description: The words are mostly in Bemba with a little Swahili here and there. "About to snap, about to break. Leave me by myself, so that I can enjoy the pleasure of it. Let the others indulge in their eartly pleasures. Don't worry about them. I like my girl because she dresses well." Topical song with guitar and bottle.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957

Lala drum rhythms

  • Authors: Safuke, Mwape and Kunda , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Instrumental music , Drum , Africa Zambia Serenje f-za
  • Language: Lala
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134715 , vital:37193 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0021-08
  • Description: This dance, they say, is done upon ant festive occasion. For Fwandoula dance, with 3 conical drums, hand beaten (Kumgulumi, Tiwira and Chirarira), with Nkonkonto stick and Misewe tin rattle. For Sai dance with 3 conical drums, hand-beaten, with 2 pairs of rattles.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957

Lolo inamukinga

Masalela

  • Authors: Group of young Xhosa men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Africa South Africa Kentani f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/150394 , vital:38971 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR060-01
  • Description: This group of "Amakwenkwe" (young unitiated men) all wrapped in red blankets, carrying sticks and wearing bead leggings, sang very well with gravity and intersity. They were all under 18 years of age. In the interval between the songs, they went off to fetch their sticks and struck them together during the song to mark the rhythm. Three group fighting song, with sticks and whistles.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957
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