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Authors: Mbilo Bundi with Sukuma men , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1950
Subjects: Nyamwezi (African people) , Sukuma (African people) , Folk songs, Sukuma , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Shinyanga f-tz
Language: Nyamwezi , Sukuma
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173760 , vital:42408 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR152-10
Description: You are being burnt by the sun, you unfaithful woman." The leader has a very harsh voice no doubt the result of years of singing in this style. The name of the dance is sometimes given as Buchyeke and sometimes as Ucheyeke. Bucheyeke dance song for men and women.
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Date Issued: 1950

Authors: Thungu Giti with Sukuma men , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1950
Subjects: Nyamwezi (African people) , Sukuma (African people) , Folk songs, Sukuma , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Shinyanga f-tz
Language: Nyamwezi , Sukuma
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173531 , vital:42381 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR151-12
Description: "You have found me well prepared with my dance charms which will defeat you." The Sukuma are given to forming socities or parties for dancing and singing in competition with each other. The use of charms to help them win are frequently part of the procedure. If irrational i material principal these charms are undoubtedly efficient in concentrating mental effort in the desired direction. This item is an interesting example of lengthy recitative in unision or close parallel. Puba dance song for men and women.
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Date Issued: 1950

Authors: Arusi Binti Kasimu with Sukuma women , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1950
Subjects: Nyamwezi (African people) , Sukuma (African people) , Folk songs, Sukuma , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Shinyanga f-tz
Language: Nyamwezi , Sukuma
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173450 , vital:42372 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR151-03
Description: "How do you do, Mudala Mukamba." It is possible that this style of singing has been modelled upon Swhaili or Arab practice. A kind of 'celeste' is produced between the unison voices of the women, one of them singing at a lower pitch than the others. Kadandi dance song for women.
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Date Issued: 1950

Authors: Welelo Sucha with Sukuma men and women , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1950
Subjects: Nyamwezi (African people) , Sukuma (African people) , Folk songs, Sukuma , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Shinyanga f-tz
Language: Nyamwezi , Sukuma
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173522 , vital:42380 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR151-11
Description: "I failed to fight the Masai." The Masai are the famous pastoralists who live on the far side of the Serengeti plains to the east. Last year, 1949, the Masai raided the Sukuma and took over one thousand head of cattle from them. The Puba dance is done in teams. The girls in two lines and the boys in two lines behind them. They move to and fro in file and leap into the air in time with the rhythm of the dance music. Puba dance song for men and women with clapping.
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Date Issued: 1950

Authors: Mbilo Bundi with Sukuma men , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1950
Subjects: Nyamwezi (African people) , Sukuma (African people) , Folk songs, Sukuma , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Shinyanga f-tz
Language: Nyamwezi , Sukuma
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173777 , vital:42410 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR152-11
Description: "I have just met some women who talked to me about an important matter." The subject matter of these frequently long lyrics, they say, is wholely local in interest. The name of the dance is sometimes given as Buchyeke and sometimes as Ucheyeke. Bucheyeke dance song for men and women.
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Date Issued: 1950

Authors: Juma Bin Kija with Sukuma men , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1950
Subjects: Nyamwezi (African people) , Sukuma (African people) , Folk songs, Sukuma , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Shinyanga f-tz
Language: Nyamwezi , Sukuma
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173680 , vital:42399 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR152-06
Description: The word Wigasha means 'to sit down'; and the dance is performed in this position, the dancers sitting on a log or bench and moving their arms and legs in rhythm. Wigasha dance song for men and women.
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Date Issued: 1950

Authors: Ernest Pole with Sukuma men , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1950
Subjects: Nyamwezi (African people) , Sukuma (African people) , Folk songs, Sukuma , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Shinyanga f-tz
Language: Nyamwezi , Sukuma
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173513 , vital:42379 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR151-10
Description: "I have heard the chief's dance, Milango! Let's go and join the dance." The Puba dance is done in teams. The girls in two lines and the boys in two lines behind them. They move to and fro in file and leap into the air in time with the rhythm of the dance music. Puba dance song for men and women with clapping.
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Date Issued: 1950

Authors: Mwanaluchiwa Makanyela with Sukuma men , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1950
Subjects: Nyamwezi (African people) , Sukuma (African people) , Folk songs, Sukuma , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Shinyanga f-tz
Language: Nyamwezi , Sukuma
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173549 , vital:42383 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR151-14
Description: The Nyilamba clan has a reputation for telling lies. So they say "When a Nyilimba comes to your house, give him food by himself where he cannot take part in the conversation or he will go awayand distort what was said, and so make trouble for you. The Nyilimba come from the Singida District to the eastwards. The recording was made at the Williamson Diamond Mine. Puba dance song for men and women.
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Date Issued: 1950

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