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Authors: Samuiri Rwakifunzi and Nkole men , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1950
Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Nyankole (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Bushenyi f-ug
Language: Nyoro , Nyankole
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170083 , vital:41855 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0134-13
Description: Igumira was a local chief who used to go over into Rwanda and raid tribes there, the Tutsi and the Hutu. The song is now used for dancing the Ekitagururo dance in which mena nd women do a simple rhythmic shuffle with rattles attached to their calves. The rattles are flat containers made of stout grasses inside which wild canna seeds are thrown to and fro. They are held flat between the palms while the fingers may tap the lower side to enhance the main pulses or to syncopate the rhythm. Ekitagururo dance song, with conical drums, laced, single, played with sticks, and three earthenware pots and raft rattles.
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Date Issued: 1950

Authors: Samuiri Rwakifunzi and Nkole men , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1950
Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Nyankole (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Bushenyi f-ug
Language: Nyoro , Nyankole
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170074 , vital:41856 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0134-13
Description: Igumira was a local chief who used to go over into Rwanda and raid tribes there, the Tutsi and the Hutu. The song is now used for dancing the Ekitagururo dance in which mena nd women do a simple rhythmic shuffle with rattles attached to their calves. The rattles are flat containers made of stout grasses inside which wild canna seeds are thrown to and fro. They are held flat between the palms while the fingers may tap the lower side to enhance the main pulses or to syncopate the rhythm. Ekitagururo dance song, with conical drums, laced, single, played with sticks, and three earthenware pots and raft rattles.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1950

Authors: Samuiri Rwakifunzi and Nkole men , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1950
Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Nyankole (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Bushenyi f-ug
Language: Nyoro , Nyankole
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170092 , vital:41857 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0134-14
Description: Nyamwanga was a Hima king of Ankole who used to raid the Ganda people of the lake districts before 1890 when the English took over the Protectorate. The rattles are flat containers made of stout grasses inside which wild canna seeds are thrown to and fro. They are held flat between the palms while the fingers may tap the lower side to enhance the main pulses or to syncopate the rhythm. Ekitagururo dance song, with conical drums, laced, single, played with sticks, and three earthenware pots and raft rattles.
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Date Issued: 1950

Authors: Matesaiwe and Nkole men , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1950
Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Nyankole (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Bushenyi f-ug
Language: Nyoro , Nyankole
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170117 , vital:41860 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0134-16
Description: The flute (Omubanda. s. Emibanda. pl.) is a notched flute, end blown onto a V shaped notch cut into the end of the open pipe. There are four finger holes in two pairs. These flutes usually accompany the chief country dance the Ekitagururo, a very simple rhythm. The clay poys, which cannot be distinguished in this recording are played by striking the orifice of the pot with a flat beater made of banana frond or leaf. Emibanda flute duet, with two conical drums, laced, single, played with sticks, three clay pots, (Enyungu), rattles and two end blown notched flutes (Emibanda).
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Date Issued: 1950

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