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Authors: Zande elephant drivers , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1952
Subjects: Folk songs, Zande , Alur (African people) , Swahili-speaking peoples , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Dungu f-cg
Language: Zande/Vongara
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168022 , vital:41532 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0124-04
Description: "A Chief's son always wants to become chief himself, are you not ashmed to want to take your father's place? The Zande men are specially chosen for the dangerous job of training wild African elephants on account of their bravery. The home district of these Zande men is Dungu, a small town in the north eastern corner of the Congo, north of Watsa and near the Sudan border. Topical song.
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Date Issued: 1952

Authors: Zande elephant drivers , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1952
Subjects: Folk songs, Zande , Alur (African people) , Swahili-speaking peoples , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Dungu f-cg
Language: Zande/Vongara
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168004 , vital:41530 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0124-02
Description: The song was learnt from the original Indian trainers who came across to Africa from India with Indian elephants when the experimental training of African elephants was begun in North Eastern Congo in 1910. The songs taught to the local Zande mahouts or trainers (locally called Cornacs) have survived though local words have partly replaced the original words of the Indians. The original Indian mahouts impressed upon the Zande the need for singing to their elephants, an instruction they have never neglected. Work song for riding and driving tamed elphants.
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Date Issued: 1952

Authors: Zande elephant drivers , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1952
Subjects: Folk songs, Zande , Alur (African people) , Swahili-speaking peoples , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Dungu f-cg
Language: Zande/Vongara
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168011 , vital:41531 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0124-03
Description: The song was learnt from the original Indian trainers who came across to Africa from India with Indian elephants when the experimental training of African elephants was begun in North Eastern Congo in 1910. The songs taught to the local Zande mahouts or trainers (locally called Cornacs) have survived though local words have partly replaced the original words of the Indians. The original Indian mahouts impressed upon the Zande the need for singing to their elephants, an instruction they have never neglected. Work song for riding and driving tamed elphants.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1952

Authors: Zande elephant drivers , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1952
Subjects: Folk songs, Zande , Alur (African people) , Swahili-speaking peoples , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Dungu f-cg
Language: Zande/Vongara
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/167995 , vital:41529 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0124-01
Description: The Zande men were found by the Beligians to be the only ones brave enough to handle and tame the wild African elephants, young elephants are caught in the forest or open plains and trained in much the same way as Burmese elephants. The Zande cornacs are a gay lot and much of their recreation time in the forest is spent in dancing. The Narone is a circle or ring dance with the drums playing in the center. This recording was made at Nepoko, the rest camp for sick elephants near Andudu in the northern edge of the Ituri forest, where they are cured under the supervision of M. de Medins, the renowned hunter and game warden. Narone dance, with 1 wooden cylindrical slit drum and 1 small bass drum, laced.
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Date Issued: 1952

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