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Aba Mukama

- Ernest Kibuka with Haya men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Ernest Kibuka with Haya men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Haya (African people) , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania / Uganda Bibanja / Bukoba f-tz / f-ug
  • Language: Nyoro , Haya
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172289 , vital:42184 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR145-08
  • Description: The laced drum is called Ngoma, the general name of any drum. It only receives a special name when it is part of a set of drums such as the Enkoito set. David Rugomola is said by his men to be the best chief in the whole Bibanja area and the people like him very much. He is a tall man with finely drawn features common to many aristocratic Hima people who rule over several lesser tribes in this part of East Africa. Praise song, with conical laced drum, beaten with sticks, and clapping (-12.03-).
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Aba Mukama

- Ernest Kibuka, Haya people, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Abamalaya

- Salima with Haya women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Salima with Haya women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Haya (African people) , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Bukoba f-tz
  • Language: Nyoro , Haya
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172604 , vital:42227 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR146-12
  • Description: The subject of this song refers to the burning question in Bukoba at the time (1950), that of the recent rebellion on the part of the women against virtual enslavement by the men. It has given rise to the most interesting social complications. The rattle is played with a circular movement of the wrist. Ngondo dance song for girls, with 1 laced conical drum and gourd rattle (-12.54-) and clapping (-12.03-).
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Ali Majengo

- KKyomile Kabanyolekile, Haya men, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Ali Majengo

- Kyomile Kabanyolekile with Haya men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Kyomile Kabanyolekile with Haya men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Haya (African people) , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania / Uganda Bukoba f-tz / f-ug
  • Language: Nyoro , Haya
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171926 , vital:42139 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR144-04
  • Description: "My love is in Majengo." (the red light district of Bukoba). The great social problem of Bukoba (1950) is the general laxity of morals which followed up on the rise in thier standard of living through the planting of coffee. Men and women alike have lost their standards of recent years. Sung while paddling out to lay nets. The cries are the traditional cries are the traditional cries of the fishermen out on the lake. Paddling song with conical laced drum, beaten with sticks and clapping (-12.03-).
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1950

Batama makonge

- Kagaruki Nkokolo, Haya men, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Batele bwankya

- Norobeti Michaili with Haya boys, Hugh Tracey

Batele bwankya

- Michaili, Nonobeti, Young Haya men, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Batele bwankya

- Norobeti Michaili, Haya boys, composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Batele bwankya

- Nenebeti, Michaili, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Bateme Makonge

- Kagaruki Nkokolo with Haya men, Hugh Tracey

Bireke Bifwerya

- Ernest Kibuka, haya men, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Bireke kifwerya

- Ernest Kibuka with Haya men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Ernest Kibuka with Haya men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Haya (African people) , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania / Uganda Kabale / Bukoba f-tz / f-ug
  • Language: Nyoro , Haya
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172051 , vital:42153 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR144-13
  • Description: Many years ago the people of Bukoba tried to come to some agreement about making a paramount chief. The idea failed owing to the narrow loyality of the various peoples of their own minor chiefs. Those who had proposed the amalgamation sang, "Leave the fools alone," resolving to carry out their intentions at some future date. The accent of the clapping falls on pulses 2, 5 and 7 in the 8 pulse measure. Topical song with conical laced drum and clapping.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1950

Bwonwa

- Angelina Isaka with Haya women / Chief Garikani, Kalema, Hugh Tracey

Damunda

- Laurenti Kamwabwa with Haya boys and girls, Hugh Tracey

Dikitari Tiyakuyia

- Felisiano Karungula with Haya boys, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Felisiano Karungula with Haya boys , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Haya (African people) , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Bukoba f-tz
  • Language: Nyoro , Haya
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172622 , vital:42230 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR146-14
  • Description: "The hospitals is a good place and should not be burnt down. Why, I myself was once treated there." A sentiment which could be echoed through many regions of Africa where rioters are notorious for burning down hospitals, clinics and schools. Ruyaigo dance song for boys and girls, with conical laced drum, 1 gourd rattle (-12.54-) and clapping (-12.03-).
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1950

Dikitari tiyakuyia

- Felisiano, Kamugula, Haya people, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Einembe

- Kyomile Kabanyolekile with Haya men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Kyomile Kabanyolekile with Haya men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Haya (African people) , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania / Uganda Bukoba f-tz / f-ug
  • Language: Nyoro , Haya
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171931 , vital:42140 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR144-05
  • Description: "If anyone steals my mangoes I will kill him." This song sung as the fishermen paddle their way home having put out their nets is done at a much more leisurely speed than the outward voyage. When sung in their lake canoes there is no drum, the drum and clapping were used only to keep the singers in time as if they were paddling. Paddling song with conical laced drum, beaten with sticks and clapping (-12.03-).
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1950

Enaku zita amalembo

- Kabyoma Mashulamo, Hugh Tracey

Enjangu

- Eliasi Karuandila with Haya men, Hugh Tracey

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