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Kilnerton Training Institution - Board of Control with students, 1957

  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Kilnerton Training Institution -- Buildings -- Photographs Kilnerton Training Institution -- History -- Photographs Pretoria -- History -- Photographs Weaving Park, Pretoria -- History
  • Type: Image
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/10878 , vital:21638 , PIC/M 5785
  • Description: The Kilnerton Training Institution, affiliated to the Methodist Church of Southern Africa, was established in 1886 in the small suburb of Weaving Park, Pretoria. The Institution was named after Rev. John Kilner, who encouraged the formation of an indigenous clergy in South Africa. The mission of the Institution was to provide seminary education to locals in preparation for ordination. In and above providing seminary education, Kilnerton also served as a primary and secondary school for children in the local community. The Institution is known for some of its illustrious past students, including Dikgang Moseneke (Deputy Chief Justice), Sefako Makgatho, Miriam Makeba, Lillian Ngoyi and Thomas Masekela. , This image is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University. For further information contact cory@ru.ac.za. The digitisation of this image was made possible through a generous grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2014-2017.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Kilnerton Training Institution - Choir, 1957

  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Kilnerton Training Institution --Building -- Photographs Kilnerton Training Institution -- History -- Photographs Pretoria -- History -- Photographs Weaving Park, Pretoria -- History
  • Type: Image
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/10917 , vital:21645 , PIC/M 5787
  • Description: The Kilnerton Training Institution, affiliated to the Methodist Church of Southern Africa, was established in 1886 in the small suburb of Weaving Park, Pretoria. The Institution was named after Rev. John Kilner, who encouraged the formation of an indigenous clergy in South Africa. The mission of the Institution was to provide seminary education to locals in preparation for ordination. In and above providing seminary education, Kilnerton also served as a primary and secondary school for children in the local community. The Institution is known for some of its illustrious past students, including Dikgang Moseneke (Deputy Chief Justice), Sefako Makgatho, Miriam Makeba, Lillian Ngoyi and Thomas Masekela. , This image is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University. For further information contact cory@ru.ac.za. The digitisation of this image was made possible through a generous grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2014-2017.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Kividu Kumuzi (At our home)

- Group of 16 Tonga men and boys, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of 16 Tonga men and boys , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Songs, Tumbuka , Malawi , Africa Malawi Chinteche f-mw
  • Language: Luvale/Chokwe
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137387 , vital:37519 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR037-10
  • Description: The leader is Joni Phiri. "Haye Mwazadi mwanozga." "You have done well to come." The Malipenga dance of the Tonga and other tribes of north central Nyasaland was originated, they say, in military drill where it imitates. With African genius for converting what is normally a drudgery into a game, these Tonga made barrack square drilling into a form of enjoyable dance, with opportunities for all to shine in the grace of their movements. The instruments of the mirliton buzzers so that anyone who can sing a Tonga tune can equally well participate in the Malipenga band. Short gourds or horns are used for the higher pitched voices and longer for the bases. 4 Movements of the Malipenga dance, the first 2 with Chandi and Muganda drums, with 12 singing horns (calabash), 1 bass drum.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Kolombo musambo wakalwa kuba

- Group of Lulua men, Perfomer not specified, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Kolombo musambo wakalwa kuba shanyi (This man must grow up to be very rich)

- Group of Lulua men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of Lulua men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Luba-Lulua , Luba (African people)--Music , Cultural anthropology , Luba-Lulua language , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Kasai f-cg
  • Language: Luba/Lulua
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136957 , vital:37472 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR035-05
  • Description: The chisanzhi were resonated on gourds (painted and decorated) which are called chilo-o. The chisanzhi-chinene was made out of the central ribs of palm-fronds. The 2 dancers wore tribal dress with colobus monkey-skin belted round their waists, multiple, girdles of black and red twisted thongs and bells slung at the back of the waist. One wore a colobus monkey skin headdress. Panpipes- Shiba. These were end-blown flutes, in small rafts of 2 or 3. Kalombo dance with 1 chisanzhi-chinene mbira (in a raft with bamboo notes), 2 chisanzhi mbira, 4 sets of panpipes, 1 basket rattle and a stick tapped on the side of gourd resonator.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Kontae iya konta (Kontae)

- Stephen Tsotsi Kasumali and 2 friends, Hugh Tracey

Krubo

- Group of Hlangwini men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of Hlangwini men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-sa
  • Language: Southern Sotho
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151300 , vital:39049 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR064-02
  • Description: "When we were going to Swendlana, the watchers said: 'attach', and the whole world burst." The translation of this item, as given on the spot, is far from clear and needs further elucidation. The song was sung, they say, during the last century when the Hlangwini people came down from Zululand and ousted the Sotho. Ihubo old fighting song.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Kudanda ula

- Josita Phiri, Hugh Tracey

Kudandaula kwakunala ulombala

- Egesi Londoni, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Egesi Londoni , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Yao (African people)--Music , Africa Malawi Boma Liwonde f-mw
  • Language: Yao
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151947 , vital:39190 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR066-15
  • Description: This song was accompanied on an improved bangwe with rather more reasonance than the locally made board zither. Tuning of the instrument:- 388, 364, 324, 288, 276, 236, 212 vs. Topical song with Bangwe m'kulu zither.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Kufa kusina dangwe

- Simon Sitole, Hugh Tracey

Kugiga

- Samsoni Mwetwe and group of Tonga men, Hugh Tracey

Kujeya shiankori umparuti (Kill the wild pig and cook him on the fire)

- Mangwato Penge, Hugh Tracey

Kukala Kokela (Start the song)

- Group of 5 Lozi men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of 5 Lozi men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Lozi (African people) , Africa Zambia Nchanga Mine Compound f-za
  • Language: Lozi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152124 , vital:39215 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR067-16
  • Description: This Silimba xylophone is built on a rough frame with X crossed legs at either end raising it approximately 3 feet off the ground. Each note is attached at both ends by a string through two holes and has a separate gourd resonator with open mirliton buzzer. Siyamboka dance song with 1 Silimba xylophone (x9 notes), resonator on frame and mirliton.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Kulangula-ka

- Kiposho, Hugh Tracey

Kule-kule kuwincherera bena bangu (Far - far away, I get the food to feed my children)

- Tenesi Muntanga and Panisi Mwetwa and group of Tonga men, Hugh Tracey

Kulene mamama ndaimbirira, nikawa kapongo ndaimbirira (From far, mama, I sing. Give me a goat)

- Tenesi Mutanga and Tonga men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Tenesi Mutanga and Tonga men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
  • Language: Tonga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138288 , vital:37619 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-16
  • Description: In many African tribes the travelling entertainer or mendicant is a familiar figure, playing an instrument and dancing. He is usually rewarded with food and small presents and makes no bones about asking for them. Mendicant's song with sound of feet and clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Kuma (Beat)

- Group of Tonga men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of Tonga men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
  • Language: Tonga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138411 , vital:37634 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR043-06
  • Description: The drum was bent over towards the drummer and played with hands only. While three men with short pieces of stick tapped out rhythms on the body of the drum, each simple stick rhythm fitting into the next to build up a complex syncopation. Mayanze drinking songs with a Gayanda drum, hand beaten, the Gayanda being conical, single, open, pegged with 3 sticks tapped on the side of the drum.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Kuma pumaingwe kuma

- Group of Tonga women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of Tonga women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
  • Language: Tonga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138625 , vital:37657 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR045-04
  • Description: The drummers first went away, gathered some swathes of grass in order to make a fire to heat drum membranes before playing and to bring them up to pitch. The wooden pegs were also hammered firmly into place to increase the tension on the drum heads. Masabe dance with 2 drums, hand beaten, pegged, 1 goblet (-14.5101-), 1 cylindrical.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Kunukizembe pheshakwenciba (The smell of a battle axe across the Kei)

- Group of young Xhosa men and boys, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of young Xhosa men and boys , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Africa South Africa Kentani f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/150687 , vital:38997 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR060-15
  • Description: We were told that this group of Xhosa lads were from Christian homes. The tune is connected to the same dance for young boys and girls between the ages of about 12-17 years. It is a dance song the group of young people use on their way to the home where the party is to take place. The dance itself takes place in a hut. Mbayizelo dance song, with harmonica.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Kupa lomba uachi lela mezhi

- Large group of Kasai women and 5 men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Large group of Kasai women and 5 men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Luba-Lulua , Luba (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Bakwakulumba-Kalamuzeu f-cg
  • Language: Luba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183913 , vital:44083 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR183-04
  • Description: One drummer raised and lowered the pitch of his drum by pressing his left elbow on and off the membrane of the drum. This excellent item gives a good impression of the spirit of the Mambala dance, the attractive lift to the rhythm, the sure participation of the dancers and the clever drumming of the men. The tone value of the mirliton placed on the side of the closed drums is well illustrated. The Mambala is clearly an enjoyable dance. Mambala dance with 4 goblet drums, closed, pinned, weighted with mirlitons and hand beaten, pieces of wood struck together, metal bell used as rattle
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  • Date Issued: 1957
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