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Kajili kanowana

- Zulu, Jimu, Mwali, Ledsoni, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Authors: Zulu, Jimu , Mwali, Ledsoni , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
Date: 1957-08-16
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , 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/10962/246828 , vital:51517 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT545-L166 , Research no. L3M18
Description: Hunting song accompanied by two pieces of metal one of them being an axe blade sung when going out to hunt for five days.
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Date Issued: 1957-08-16

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Nditu, nditu, nditu

- Three small Nsenga boys, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Authors: Three small Nsenga boys , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
Date: 1957-06-18
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Wankie Colliery f-rh
Language: Nsenga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/231639 , vital:49910 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT447-L68 , Research no. L2B-NDITU NDITU
Description: Indigenous tolpical folk song with singing accompanied by a homemade guitar with a tin body .
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957-06-18

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Amalume kuwayawa

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

Authors: Group of Nsenga women , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
Date: 1957-06-17
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Wankie Colliery f-rh
Language: Nsenga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/230703 , vital:49808 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT443-L64 , Research no. L2A21
Description: Indigenous drinking folk song with singing and clapping.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957-06-17

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Chawayawaya Chipuwa

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

Authors: Group of Nsenga women , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
Date: 1957-05-17
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Wankie Colliery f-rh
Language: Nsenga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/230279 , vital:49762 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT441-L62 , Research no. L2A10
Description: Indigenous topical folk song with unaccompanied singing.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957-05-17

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Nimwe kuya kusilya mukaniuzile amboni

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

Authors: Group of Nsenga women , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
Date: 1957-05-17
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Wankie Colliery f-rh
Language: Nsenga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/230175 , vital:49750 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT440-L61 , Research no. L2A9
Description: Indigenous folk song of lament, with unaccompanied singing.
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Date Issued: 1957-05-17

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Ahume bangu okonda kuyenda njinga nityale (My husband likes to roam)

- Group of 12 Ngoni women, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Group of 12 Ngoni women , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk songs , Songs, Nyanja , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Africa Zambia Fort Jameson f-za
Language: Nyanja , Nsenga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137455 , vital:37526 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR038-02
Description: "My husband likes to roam, so I shall break his bicycle." These women were Ngoni, but singing in Nsenga the language of their forebears. The singing of the Ngoni is especially interesting for the fact that they sing in 2 distinct styles, that of the Zulu (Ngoni), their father's tribe and that of their mother's tribes who were conquered by the Ngoni. Both strains are still clearly defined after nearly a century of integration. Women's party dance song with clapping.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Akaizari mbanda yasila (The Mbanda dance is finished)

- Group of 4 Ngoni men, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Group of 4 Ngoni men , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk songs , Songs, Nyanja , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Africa Zambia Petanke f-za
Language: Nyanja , Nsenga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137501 , vital:37531 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR038-07
Description: The dance song is sung to wind up the evening and to show the dancing is at the end. Mbanda dance song with Malaza leg rattles.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Amai netini kone chamba

- Josita Phiri, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Josita Phiri , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk songs , Songs, Nyanja , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Africa South Africa Northern Transvaal f-sa
Language: Nyanja , Nsenga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137529 , vital:37534 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR038-10
Description: A mother was cutting her child's hair. The child says: "Mother why do you do this? I want to go and play." Selef-delectative song with Bangwe board zither with 7 strings
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Amalume kuwayawa

- 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/10962/184418 , vital:44220 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR185-03
Description: "Boys marry young girls, who is Lami going to marry? You will never have any food. You are going to eat your mother. My uncle is not settled, for he thinks I am his wife." One woman claps gently in the background
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Chawayawaya chipuwa

- 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/10962/184409 , vital:44219 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR185-02
Description: "I have married an old man who yawns when he wakes up in the morning. I will die here and die again at home, on account of the magic. Only a fool has no blanket." Topical song
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Chipungu

- Jespar Lungu and is wife, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Jespar Lungu and is wife , 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/10962/184437 , vital:44222 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR185-05
Description: The man is singing, partly in Falsetto, a duet with his wife. "Chipungu, Chipungu, show me where the meat is." The Chipungu is the Bateleur eagle which features in many songs in this part of Africa. It is sometimes said to be a sign of good luck, and, sometimes, if flies across your path at the beginning of a journey that you should turn back and start again tomorrow. Self delectative song with Kalimba, eleven notes, fan and external resonator
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Chiterere chanakazi

- Jespar Lungu and is wife, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Jespar Lungu and is wife , 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/10962/184427 , vital:44221 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR185-04
Description: The man is singing, partly in Falsetto, a duet with his wife. Self delectative song with Kalimba, eleven notes, fan and external resonator
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Chundalala chawona mwezi (The moon was already up and the ants were gone)

- Group of 4 Ngoni men, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Group of 4 Ngoni men , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk songs , Songs, Nyanja , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Africa Zambia Fort Jameson f-za
Language: Nyanja , Nsenga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137483 , vital:37529 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR038-05
Description: The meaning behind the title is that the singer was too late to catch any flying ants, which usually swarm at dusk. By the time the moon was up, the ants had closed their bodies again and there were no ants to catch. Mbanda dance song with Malaza leg rattles
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Kakili kanowana

- Jimu Zulu, Ledsoni Mwali, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Jimu Zulu , Ledsoni Mwali , 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/10962/184455 , vital:44224 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR185-07
Description: It was explained that this song is sung "When we go out hunting for five days." In Northern Rhodesia especially, axe blades are often used as an accompaniment to song. This single blade is not however a good example. Men will knock the triangular blades out of their handles and tap them rhythmically. This particularly effective when a number of blades are used each producing its distinctive oitch of note which serves to accentuate the pattern of the crossed rhythm which are tapped out. The choice of harmonic intervals in this song is interesting. Hunting song, with two pieces of metal (1 axe blade)
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Kudanda ula

- Josita Phiri, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Josita Phiri , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk songs , Songs, Nyanja , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Africa South Africa Northern Transvaal f-sa
Language: Nyanja , Nsenga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137534 , vital:37535 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR038-11
Description: A mother was cutting her child's hair. The child says: "Mother why do you do this? I want to go and play." Selef-delectative song with Bangwe board zither with 7 strings
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Kwaca milombe kalingilila (Now the sun is rising, I must go into the bush and cut trees)

- Group of 4 Ngoni men, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Group of 4 Ngoni men , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk songs , Songs, Nyanja , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Africa Zambia Fort Jameson f-za
Language: Nyanja , Nsenga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137492 , vital:37530 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR038-06
Description: The leg rattles are made out of the hard shell fruit of the Vitanta tree. It is an edible fruit which is picked when ripe, boiled in a pot and then the seeds are extracted through a small hole at the spot where the stem joins the fruit. It is then dried. A number of pin head size holes are made in the sides "to let the sound out" , they say, a second hole is made opposite the stem hole and the shell are then filled with canna seeds or small stones and strung onto sticks. Four rows of shells of about 6-8 each are needed to make one leg rattle which is attached to the calf of the leg by two straps, one below the knee and the other at the ankle. Mbanda dance song with Malaza leg rattles.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Liya kumuchoma wa kanga (Without Liya the dance is not a success)

- Group of 4 Ngoni men, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Group of 4 Ngoni men , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk songs , Songs, Nyanja , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Africa Zambia Fort Jameson f-za
Language: Nyanja , Nsenga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137474 , vital:37528 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR038-04
Description: The song is sung while dancing, the action of the feet is used to create an accompanying rhythm on the Malaza leg rattles. Mbanda dance song with Malaza leg rattles.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Nabo aba Ngoni (Here are the Ngoni)

- Group of 14 Ngoni men and chorus of women, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Group of 14 Ngoni men and chorus of women , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk songs , Songs, Nyanja , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Africa Zambia Fort Jameson f-za
Language: Nyanja , Nsenga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137629 , vital:37544 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR038-14
Description: This tune is clearly not Ngoni but Nsenga in orign and is sung in the style of their mothers' tribe and not their father's of Ngoni orign (Natal).
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Nensonde nyama nyawonga

- Jespar Lungu and is wife, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Jespar Lungu and is wife , 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/10962/184446 , vital:44223 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR185-06
Description: The man is singing, partly in Falsetto, a duet with his wife. Self delectative song with Kalimba, eleven notes, fan and external resonator
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Ngagashupeke ngi mabunu (We are being trouble by Boers)

- Group of 14 Ngoni men and chorus of women, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Group of 14 Ngoni men and chorus of women , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk songs , Songs, Nyanja , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Africa Zambia Fort Jameson f-za
Language: Nyanja , Nsenga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137611 , vital:37542 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR038-12
Description: This was probably composed long ago when the people of Mzilikazi were being driven out of the Transvaal by the Boers in the middle of the nineteenth century. The singers agreed that this was a Ndebele song not of the Ngoni songs - but they said their languages were so similar that they had adopted it. Ngoma dance song with stamping and 1 pair of leg rattles.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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