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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

Amalume kuwayawa

- Group of Nsenga women, Hugh Tracey

Chawayawaya chipuwa

- Group of Nsenga women, Hugh Tracey

Chipungu

- Jespar Lungu and is wife, Hugh Tracey

Chiterere chanakazi

- Jespar Lungu and is wife, Hugh Tracey

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)
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Nensonde nyama nyawonga

- Jespar Lungu and is wife, Hugh Tracey

Nimwe kuya kusilya mukaniuzile amboni

- 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/10962/184399 , vital:44218 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR185-01
  • Description: The singers sang with a completely composed and sedate manner, and listened to the playback without a smile, but applauded themselves enthusiastically at the end as did the crowd who shouted "Very good." "You people of the watch tower, when you go across the river (Zambesi) go and ask them where my brother sleeps. The people of Satani have lied that people who died go to heaven (and do not stay here in the country of Petauke)." The idea that the souls of the dead leave the familiar earth and go to a far place 'heaven' is repugnant to some African people even though they may be Christian in name. They prefer the more homely resting place of the home country and its well known features. Lament
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Ni panama pamulyano pa mambo

- Yelele Lungu, Nsenga women, Hugh Tracey

Zuwa na mwezi

- Yelele Lungu, Nsenga women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Yelele Lungu , Nsenga women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1949
  • 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/10962/184464 , vital:44225 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR185-08
  • Description: The sun and the moon are contrasted as lovers. The son returns to his mother if he is unsucceful in love and the mother sees in the hooting of the owls the omen of death to come. The player Yelele Lungu is one of two blind muscians in the Petauke district. Blind from birth he has developed an unusual degree of petic imagery. He had bever seen either the sun or the moon and his poetry consequently reflected a blind man's conception of natural phenomena. Unfortunately owing to technical difficulties both his recordings on this disc are poor, but his poetry warranted their inclusion. Love song, with Kalimba of 10 notes
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  • Date Issued: 1949
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