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Negbada

- Mangbele men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Mangbele men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Kusu (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Gombari f-cg
  • Language: Mangbetu
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168982 , vital:41667 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0128-13
  • Description: In the hilly country of North Eastern Congo and in the great tropical forest basin of the Ituri, the Tipoyi or Sedan chair is still the only means of passenger transport away from the main roads. Not only officials but most native chiefs and notables are carried in this manner by four or more bearers, who after the fashion of all Africans use special occupational songs for this kind of work. Tipoyi carriers song, with two wooden pod shaped slit drums and two cylindrical slit drums.
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  • Date Issued: 1952

Nekenye

- Mangbele men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Mangbele men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Kusu (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Gombari f-cg
  • Language: Mangbetu
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168949 , vital:41664 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0128-10
  • Description: The Mangbele are a sub-group of the Mangbetu, mixed with the Mamvy. Most tribes in this north eastern corner of the Congo have been absorbed in whole or in part by their neighbours. This Bantu tribe came under the cultural sway of the stronger Sudanic Mangbetu and have adopted the habits of their mentors. The name of the chief whose praises are sung in this song is Mokoto. Praise song for a Chief, with two wooden pod drums, and two cylindrical wooden slit drums and two bells and basket rattles.
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  • Date Issued: 1952

Neyo

- Mongika and Mangbele men and women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Mongika and Mangbele men and women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Kusu (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Gombari f-cg
  • Language: Mangbetu
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168964 , vital:41665 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0128-11
  • Description: Mongika is the present Chief of the Mangbele. He and his two wives wore headdresses made of the scarlet tail feathers of the Congo parrot, a mark of distinction in this area. In this region on the northern edge of the great tropical forest large trees enable the people to make slit drums of many different shapes and sizes. Membranes for the ordinary kind of African drums are rare as antelopes are not easily found in the forest. The slit drums are therefore the more popular instruments for accompanying dances. Topical song with two wooden pod shaped slit drums, two cylindrical wooden slit drums, two basket rattles, two metal bells.
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  • Date Issued: 1952

Pygmy dance I

- Mambuti Pygmy men and women, Hugh Tracey

Pygmy dance II

- Mambuti Pygmy men and women, Hugh Tracey

Saluti

- soilders of the Force Publique, at Camp Militaire, Gombari, Hugh Tracey

Song after moving camp

- Moke with Mbuti men, Hugh Tracey

Tamatsaro

- Drummers of Chief Mongika, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Drummers of Chief Mongika , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Mangbetu , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Gombari f-cg
  • Language: Mangbetu
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169103 , vital:41684 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0129-05
  • Description: Away from the Congo river itself it appears that the art of sending drum messages deteriorates into the sendng of signals only, the former being based upon the tonality of the individual words comprising the sentences transmitted, the latter comprising pre-set phrases and rhythms to which certain significance is attached. The signals may have risen from messages in the past but the skill of 'talking' on the drums has almost if not entirely vanished among the Mangbele. The significance ofthe 'Tamatsaro' signal was not explained. Drum rhythms or signals with 2 slit drums, 2 large pod shaped slit drums, 2 long cyclindrical drums.
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  • Date Issued: 1952

Tozali makasi

- soilders of the Force Publique, at Camp Militaire, Gombari, Hugh Tracey

Tozali makasi

- soilders of the Force Publique, at Camp Militaire, Gombari, Hugh Tracey

Wadima, Wadima

- Mangbele men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Mangbele men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Kusu (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Gombari f-cg
  • Language: Mangbetu
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168995 , vital:41669 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0128-15
  • Description: In the hilly country of North Eastern Congo and in the great tropical forest basin of the Ituri, the Tipoyi or Sedan chair is still the only means of passenger transport away from the main roads. Not only officials but most native chiefs and notables are carried in this manner by four or more bearers, who after the fashion of all Africans use special occupational songs for this kind of work. Tipoyi carriers song, with two wooden pod shaped slit drums and two cylindrical slit drums.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1952
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