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A speech

- Chief Bianoko, Hugh Tracey

Aiba mange kimiango

- Chief Bianoko and Buudu men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Chief Bianoko and Buudu men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Songs, Swahili , Bira (African people) , Swahili-speaking peoples , Pygmies , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Gombe f-cg
  • Language: Bira
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168404 , vital:41578 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0126-07
  • Description: This Buudu tribe is said to have come across the savanna along the northern edge of the great tropical Ituri forest from the Ruwenzori mountains in the east to this present locality in north central Congo. On their way they are said to have become much influenced by the Mbuti Pygmies, several of their songs and dances closely resembling those of the dwarfs. Their pet name for the pygmies in Batikitiki. Party song with two pod drums, two slit drums, two conical laced drums, ivory horn and basket rattles.
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  • Date Issued: 1952

Akakalu Babini

- Chief Bianoko and Buudu men and women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Chief Bianoko and Buudu men and women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Songs, Swahili , Bira (African people) , Swahili-speaking peoples , Pygmies , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Gombe f-cg
  • Language: Bira
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168395 , vital:41577 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0126-06
  • Description: The large Igogo deja was carved out of a single log and shaped like an antelope. It was 43" tall, the body 52" long, the tail 28" and the head 33". It was 42 and half wide, a total of 9 foot 5 and a quater inches long from tip to tail. The four legs were 10" tall, carrying the triangular sectioned body, sounding two notes, 56 and 48vs. one from either flank. The wooden 'slit drums' are in reality wooden gongs from which two or more tones can be produced according to the position of the blow. The two sides of the slit usually record two distinct tones when hit near the mouth of the slit. Blows in this position appear to be those usually employed when sending messages or signals. For dancing, lighter tones can be produced by striking the upper ends of the drum, and deeper notes by hitting low down on the body of the drum nearer the waist. This recording is of a part only of the dance already in progress. Dance with large Igogo deja slit drum and 2 small Igogo tade slit drums.
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  • Date Issued: 1952

Amabele-o-iye

- Mosis, Magdalena, and Terasa (Mambuti women), Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Mosis, Magdalena, and Terasa (Mambuti women) , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Songs, Swahili , Mbuti (African people) , Swahili-speaking peoples , Pygmies , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Mbau-Mbili f-cg
  • Language: Congo Swahili
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168178 , vital:41548 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0125-04
  • Description: These songs were sung by three very small pygmy women all crouching on the ground close together. Their songs, it is said, asre composed mostly of vowel sounds or very simple words without much attempt to form a lyric. They were clothed only in a small strip of cloth each strung between the legs with each supported by a waist band of bark string. Each had a single string of beads around the neck and black markings were painted on their faces and necks. These songs, they said,could also be used as lullabies. At the end of the second and third items the bleat of a goat kid can be heard. Party song.
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  • Date Issued: 1952

Ambiga

- Mudumbu, Hugh Tracey

Boyoka Malinga

- Albert Yenie and Alex Singoma, Hugh Tracey

Boyoka Malinga II

- Albert Yenie and Alex Singoma, Hugh Tracey

Chelewa

- Berroit Kukwabo, Hugh Tracey

Curative song

- Mbuti men, Hugh Tracey

Emasire

- Berroit Kukwabo, Hugh Tracey

Gbalabalatauw iye hihe – Work song

- Mbuti men, Hugh Tracey

Hi-e mungwe

- Chief Bianoko and his tipoyi carriers, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Chief Bianoko and his tipoyi carriers , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Songs, Swahili , Bira (African people) , Swahili-speaking peoples , Pygmies , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Gombe f-cg
  • Language: Bira
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168374 , vital:41574 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0126-05
  • Description: The second song strongly resembles those of the Pygmies who were sole occupants of the Ituri forest before the Mabuudu arrived in this locality. They speak of these Mbuti pygmies as Mbutu, a local variation of the pronunciation. Most of the native notables, chiefs and other functionaries are carried around the country from place to place in sedan chairs locally called "tipoyi". The carriers have evolved their oen 'tipoyi' songs and dances. Song and dance with ivory horn basket rattles (-12.54-) and small bell (-12.55-).
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  • Date Issued: 1952

Iyo-o-u-o

- Mosis, Magdalena, and Terasa (Mambuti women), Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Mosis, Magdalena, and Terasa (Mambuti women) , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Songs, Swahili , Mbuti (African people) , Swahili-speaking peoples , Pygmies , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Mbau-Mbili f-cg
  • Language: Congo Swahili
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168183 , vital:41549 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0125-05
  • Description: These songs were sung by three very small pygmy women all crouching on the ground close together. Their songs, it is said, asre composed mostly of vowel sounds or very simple words without much attempt to form a lyric. They were clothed only in a small strip of cloth each strung between the legs with each supported by a waist band of bark string. Each had a single string of beads around the neck and black markings were painted on their faces and necks. These songs, they said,could also be used as lullabies. At the end of the second and third items the bleat of a goat kid can be heard. Wedding song.
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  • Date Issued: 1952

Luma I

- Group of Mambuti Pygmies, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of Mambuti Pygmies , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Songs, Swahili , Mbuti (African people) , Swahili-speaking peoples , Pygmies , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Mbau-Mbili f-cg
  • Language: Congo Swahili
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168151 , vital:41545 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0125-01
  • Description: The name of the village means "Two Trees". The end blown flutes were kept for the use of the Pygmies by the Bantu of the Nande tribe who live just outside the Ituri forest, but consider they have proprietary rights over the Mambuti and their activities whenever they come out to the edge of the forest, ordering them about like unpaid servants. This set of pipes, end blown flutes, appear to have been made by the Nande and not they Pygmies themselves. They cannot therefore be said with certainity to reflect the innate scale of the Mambuti but rather of the Nande. The embouchure is the shape commonly found in these districts being made by two cuts of the knife, one short (held against the lower lip) and one long. Dance tune. Ensemble of 10 Luma pipes, the second tune with two laced drums and rattles.
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  • Date Issued: 1952

Luma II

- Group of Mambuti Pygmies, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of Mambuti Pygmies , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Songs, Swahili , Mbuti (African people) , Swahili-speaking peoples , Pygmies , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Mbau-Mbili f-cg
  • Language: Congo Swahili
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168156 , vital:41546 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0125-02
  • Description: The name of the village means "Two Trees". The end blown flutes were kept for the use of the Pygmies by the Bantu of the Nande tribe who live just outside the Ituri forest, but consider they have proprietary rights over the Mambuti and their activities whenever they come out to the edge of the forest, ordering them about like unpaid servants. This set of pipes, end blown flutes, appear to have been made by the Nande and not they Pygmies themselves. They cannot therefore be said with certainity to reflect the innate scale of the Mambuti but rather of the Nande. The embouchure is the shape commonly found in these districts being made by two cuts of the knife, one short (held against the lower lip) and one long. Dance tune. Ensemble of 10 Luma pipes, the second tune with two laced drums and rattles.
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  • Date Issued: 1952

Mai-o-da

- Mosis, Magdalena, and Terasa (Mambuti women), Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Mosis, Magdalena, and Terasa (Mambuti women) , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Songs, Swahili , Mbuti (African people) , Swahili-speaking peoples , Pygmies , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Mbau-Mbili f-cg
  • Language: Congo Swahili
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168169 , vital:41547 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0125-03
  • Description: These songs were sung by three very small pygmy women all crouching on the ground close together. Their songs, it is said, asre composed mostly of vowel sounds or very simple words without much attempt to form a lyric. They were clothed only in a small strip of cloth each strung between the legs with each supported by a waist band of bark string. Each had a single string of beads around the neck and black markings were painted on their faces and necks. These songs, they said,could also be used as lullabies. At the end of the second and third items the bleat of a goat kid can be heard. Song after fishing.
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  • Date Issued: 1952

Mama Yangu

- Mudumbu, Hugh Tracey

Manatobo kukwo – Day lullaby

- Mbuti women, Hugh Tracey

Manatobo kukwo – Night lullaby

- Mbuti women, Hugh Tracey

Maria Chibu

- Albert Yenie and Alex Singoma, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Albert Yenie and Alex Singoma , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Songs, Swahili , Bira (African people) , Swahili-speaking peoples , Pygmies , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Bunia f-cg
  • Language: Bira
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168443 , vital:41582 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0126-11
  • Description: This is an attempt either to transpose a well known guitar song to the traditional instrument of the district or is the original folk tune itself. The sanzo ababo has a very wide bridge, 8 and half inches, possibly the widest of all the Mbira family. The notes do not take up all this space as a large gap of about 2" is left between the notes played by each hand, Nos. 1-11 and 12-22. Duet on the Likembe, (Mbira) - Sanzo apido (treble) x 20 notes, and Sanzo ababo (bass) x 22 notes.
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  • Date Issued: 1952
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