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Authors: o Feliciano, Muntano Gomez , Gomez, F , Tracey, Hugh
Date: 1955
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Topical song , Guitar , Africa Mozambique Chibuto, Sul do Save f-mz
Language: Tonga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/132173 , vital:36807 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR004-05 , Field card no. H1P-15
Description: A certain girl liked coca-cola very much, but her brother who was looking after her was too fond of drinking beer to worry about giving her coca-cola. One of four topical songs with guitar.
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Date Issued: 1955

Authors: o Feliciano, Muntano, Gomez , Gomez, F , Tracey, Hugh
Date: 1955
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Topical song , Guitar , Africa Mozambique Chibuto, Sul do Save f-mz
Language: Tonga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/132105 , vital:36800 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR004-02 , Field card no. H1P-6
Description: "I am getting old and the young girls are no longer interested in me. I now compete with the older men and my old friends like me best. My wife gets no child, why? Cant the doctor help you get a child? My second wife has a child, so why not you, my first wife?" Lament with guitar.
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Date Issued: 1955

Authors: Feliciano, Muntano Gomez , Gomez, F , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1955
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Topical song , Guitar , Africa Mozambique Chibuto, Sul do Save f-mz
Language: Tonga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/132100 , vital:36799 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR004-01 , Field card no. 5
Description: "If you have no child, it is no good. Other women have children, they fill the village. There are many men here standing in the queues for going to Johannesburg. You, my wife, you do not want to eat porridge, you want rice. There is no rice here, because I am poor. Go to the rich where they can afford rice. So she went to a rich man to get her rice, but now she gets no clothes, no shoes, and at leas, no food. One of four topical songs with guitar.
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Date Issued: 1955

Authors: o Feliciano, Muntano Gomez , Gomez, F , Tracey, Hugh
Date: 1955
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Topical song , Guitar music , Africa Mozambique Chibuto, Sul do Save f-mz
Language: Ndau
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/131997 , vital:36784 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR003-06 , Field card no. H1P-11
Description: Feliciano's pronunciation of Ndau words, they say, is like a child's speech. "matsaire, you have finished all the people." Matsaire was killed in a certain village, and his ghost came back demanding recompense, under pain of death to all the village. One of three topical songs with guitar.
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Date Issued: 1955

Authors: o Feliciano, Muntano, Gomez , Gomez, F , Tracey, Hugh
Date: 1955
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Laments , Rattle (Musical instrument) , Africa Mozambique Chibuto, Sul do Save f-mz
Language: Tonga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/132182 , vital:36808 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR004-06 , Field card no. H1P-16
Description: "They put poison in my beer and that is why I have no child. I am very worried about the guitar. I do not like to meet anyone. I went to my doctor to make myself effective to get a child. I asked my uncle if he had seen the way I dance. Did the Old people kill a man on account of his dancing, or does that happen only to me?" Lament with raft rattle.
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Date Issued: 1955

Authors: o Feliciano, Muntano Gomez , Gomez, F , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1955
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Topical song , Guitar , Africa Mozambique Chibuto, Sul do Save f-mz
Language: Tonga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/132154 , vital:36805 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR004-03 , Field card no. H1P-7
Description: "At your home you give a person to the spirit Sikwembo. But at my house we only give a chicken to Sikwembo. Then we kill a second chicken and cook sadza porridge so that the spirit's fowl may come and eat both the sadza and the cooked fowl." The song refers to an argument between a man and wife and the diviner through whom the spirit is approached. One of four topical songs with guitar.
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Date Issued: 1955

Authors: o Feliciano, Muntano Gomez (Performer) , Gomez, F , Tracey, Hugh
Date: 1955
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Topical song , Guitar music , Africa Mozambique Chibuto, Sul do Save f-mz
Language: Ndau
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/132010 , vital:36785 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR003-07 , Field card no. H1P-25
Description: "Chief, chief, what does the great 'Lion' require? This item is typical of so many African songs in which the courtesies due to chiefs and important people in a local community are referred to in terms of extravagant adulation which hold little meaning for those outside the immediate social circle involved. One of three topical songs with guitar.
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Date Issued: 1955

Authors: o Feliciano, Muntano Gomez , Gomez, F , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1955
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Topical song , Guitar , Africa Mozambique Chibuto, Sul do Save f-mz
Language: Tonga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/132164 , vital:36806 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR004-03 , Field card no. H1P-14
Description: "Now we are well off, my wife, you do not want to know my relatives any more. You want this and that, but not to meet my friends. I have a child who was ill and whom I sent to the herbalist, but although that woman took my money, she did not give my child the right medicine." The herbalist in question was his own grandmother. One of four topical songs with guitar.
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Date Issued: 1955

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