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Kabula nina kamushalila

- Kasumali, Stephen Tsotsi, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Kasumali, Stephen Tsotsi , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1957-07-16
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kitwe f-za
  • Language: Aushi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/241352 , vital:50931 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT498-L119 , Research no. L2V7
  • Description: Lament accompanied by guitar and bottle, about a performer who earns a living by singing popular songs of his own composition while introducing local gossip inbetween verses.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957-07-16

Kakashimbi nkumuye mu s/c 5 ulucelo

- Filimba, C, Kosimasi, P, Composer unknown, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Filimba, C , Kosimasi, P , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1957-07-16
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kitwe f-za
  • Language: Bemba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/241848 , vital:50975 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT499-L120 , Research no. L2V13
  • Description: Kalela dance unaccompanied, about a man who met a woman in section 5 of the mine and they planned a time to arrange an affair.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957-07-16

Kakwezhi

- Group of eight Lunda men and women, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Kazembe mayo

- Kasumali, Stephen Tsotsi, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Kasumali, Stephen Tsotsi , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1957-07-16
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kitwe f-za
  • Language: Lunda
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/240690 , vital:50862 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT497-L118 , Research no. L2V4
  • Description: Lament accompanied by guitar and bottle, about circumstances surrounding the death of Chief Kazembe XV.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957-07-16

Kontae iya iya konta

- Kasumali, Stephen Tsotsi, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Kasumali, Stephen Tsotsi , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1957-07-16
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kitwe f-za
  • Language: Aushi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/241830 , vital:50973 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT499-L120 , Research no. L2V11
  • Description: Topical song accompanied by guitar, clapping and vocal, about an old man giving advice to the young about getting married.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957-07-16

Marita ku Mampampa

- Kasumali, Stephen Tsotsi, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Kasumali, Stephen Tsotsi , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1957-07-16
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kitwe f-za
  • Language: Aushi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/241343 , vital:50930 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT498-L119 , Research no. L2V6
  • Description: Love song about a woman named Marita, accompanied by guitar and bottle.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957-07-16

Namakawu-wo misali kunyala Liwali

- Group of 12 Lozi men and women, Composer unknown, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Group of 12 Lozi men and women , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1957-07-16
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kitwe f-za
  • Language: Lozi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/241361 , vital:50932 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT498-L119 , Research no. L2V8
  • Description: Siamboka dance about a women who was a polyandrist and had a successful liasion with 2 men until she was found out.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957-07-16

Nisoya na Chingola niyoleka moskito

- Group of a dozen Lozi men and women, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Tata tata

- Simba, Tom, Mwansa, Moses, Composer unknown, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Simba, Tom , Mwansa, Moses , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1957-07-16
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kitwe f-za
  • Language: Lunda
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/241862 , vital:50977 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT499-L120 , Research no. L2V15
  • Description: Recitative unaccompanied, about a son asking his father to give him something so that his in-laws will like him.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957-07-16

Wangwa walila

- Group of 12 Lozi men and women, Composer unknown, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Group of 12 Lozi men and women , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1957-07-16
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kitwe f-za
  • Language: Lozi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/241366 , vital:50933 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT498-L119 , Research no. L2V9
  • Description: Manyanga dance song played on two friction sticks, about a baby that won't stop crying because the people do not have enough money to feed it.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957-07-16

We ngoma mashiana migoti nokwinta

- Yamba, C, Kabalale, J, Lupala, G, Composer unknown, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Yamba, C , Kabalale, J , Lupala, G , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1957-07-16
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kitwe f-za
  • Language: Aushi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/241875 , vital:50978 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT500-L121 , Research no. L2V15
  • Description: RKalela dance song unaccompanied, about the Lamba people making fun of the Aushi/Lumbo people for not having a copper mine but the Aushi members counter act this by saying they have lake Bengwelu.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957-07-16

We nkalemo yachile

- Sibakwe, T, Kabalale, J, Lupala, G, Composer unknown, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Sibakwe, T , Kabalale, J , Lupala, G , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1957-07-16
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kitwe f-za
  • Language: Aushi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/241857 , vital:50976 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT499-L120 , Research no. L2V14
  • Description: Kalela dance song unaccompanied, about the various tribes and their differences in dress code and behaviours.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957-07-16

Amano yabula noko wemwana niwe nyatumbe? (Your mother is not very wise, how do you expect to be any wiser?)

- Stephen Tsotsi Kasumali and friends, Hugh Tracey

BaNakatekwe

- Stephen Tsotsi Kasumali and 2 friends, Hugh Tracey

Kabula nina kamushalila (I have no mother)

- Stephen Tsotsi Kasumali and 2 friends, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Stephen Tsotsi Kasumali and 2 friends , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Ushi (African people) , Music--Zambia , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kitwe f-za
  • Language: Aushi , Lamba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/140076 , vital:37830 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR053-05
  • Description: 'I have no mother. No matter what I do, whether I pray or whatever I do, I am alone." The singer is a wandering performer who earns his living by singing popular songs of his own composition which give him plenty of scope to introduce local gossip between verses. He is assisted by 2 or 3 friends who share his bohemian life wandering from compound to compound along the Copperbelt. His songs, though often rhythmic, are frequently based upon the slightest of melodies as in this case. This song is sung partly in the local Lamba language - Although Tsotsi Kasumali himself is an Aushi. Lament with guitar and bottle.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957

Kazembe mayo (Alas for Kazembe)

- Steven Tsotsi Kasumali and 2 friends, Hugh Tracey

Kontae iya konta (Kontae)

- Stephen Tsotsi Kasumali and 2 friends, Hugh Tracey

Maitumbe (Rapture)

- Edmond Cileshe and his wife, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Edmond Cileshe and his wife , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Folk songs, Bemba , Topical songs , Africa Zambia Kitwe f-za
  • Language: bemba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135247 , vital:37251 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0024-03
  • Description: "we are musicians and although some of our words sound a little romantic, our purpose is not to seduce women but to entertain everyone." Most of what he sings is in an old-fashioned Bemba and not readily translatable. The performer is blind, and has been since he was a child, going blind shortly after he learnt to walk, he said. Tuning of the instrument as follows:- 368, 340, 308, 280, 252, 232, 210, 190, 170, 154, 140 vps. Ndelema dance song-Greeting song with Mumamba mbira bell.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957

Marita ku Mampampa (Marita from Mamampa))

- Stephen Tsotsi Kasumali and 2 friends, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Stephen Tsotsi Kasumali and 2 friends , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Ruund (African people) , Ushi (African people) , Congo (Democratic Republic) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kitwe f-za
  • Language: Ruund
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139967 , vital:37818 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR053-09
  • Description: "Marita is just like a diamond - You must understand what I am thinking about. Marita's eyes are white, and I wish she would marry me. I once visited her at her village Mampampa-and oh, I wish she would marry. It does not matter if I have to pay all of ten pounds on her because I love her." The whitness of Marita's eyes no doubt refers to her clear eyes free from the pink tinge which so frequently colours the eyes of those who either drink too much or smoke marijuana.Love song with guitar and bottle.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957

Mwaiseni mwe balendo (Welcome visitors)

- Stephen Tsotsi Kasumali and 3 friends, Hugh Tracey

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