Awe Filipi malala mwana angu
- Authors: Mafolda Chipeca , Chopi women , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Folk songs, Chopi , Chopi (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Zavala f-mz
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/193160 , vital:45304 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR204-02
- Description: "You Filipe do not say anything. I, your mother, will tell you what to do." Songs such as this are ccomposed and sung exclusively by the women of the village. Drinking song with hand clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
Gongondwani wandwike
- Authors: Elena Leve , Chopi women , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Folk songs, Chopi , Chopi (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Zavala f-mz
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/193178 , vital:45306 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR204-04
- Description: "You Gongondwani, you kill people but stay alive yourself." Funeral song with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
Mwamwangu wotala achikene
- Authors: Elena Josio , Chopi women , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Folk songs, Chopi , Chopi (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Zavala f-mz
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/193198 , vital:45308 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR204-05
- Description: "No one cares for me and they give me leaves to wear instead of cotton clothes." This is the complaint of a rejected wife whose husband is away working, or of a widow who has been thrown back on her own meagre resources. The leader, Elena Josio, calls out her own name at the end of the song. Another explanation was that the dead person had not been properly clothed in a shroud for burial. Funeral song with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
Nini nge shikoko
- Authors: Sara chi Gango , Chopi women , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Folk songs, Chopi , Chopi (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Zavala f-mz
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/193151 , vital:45303 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR204-01
- Description: "Give me a cup (of beer or cidar)." In this district the most popular drink is made from the juice of the cashew apple. In some instances it is distilled, but is more usually drunk when freshly fermented in the months of October and November.The Shikoko is a small wooden goblet specially carved for the cashew season after the shape of a Portuguese wine glass. The name shikoko may come from the diminutive of Koko (a coconut). Drinking song with hand clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
Sheweni wa pumba
- Authors: Esperaca Zaguen , Chopi women , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Folk songs, Chopi , Chopi (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Zavala f-mz
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/193169 , vital:45305 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR204-03
- Description: About 30 women took part in these songs. This song appears to be based upon a school or mission song, invoking the name of Jesus with "Hallelujah, Amen", sung "Alelu ame". Greeting songto visitors, with hand clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
Tata wawu osi wana
- Authors: Emmelina Zavala , Chopi women , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Folk songs, Chopi , Chopi (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Zavala f-mz
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/193217 , vital:45310 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR204-06
- Description: "Can you see how I suffer?" This was said to be a married women's lament. Lament with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
Woyahahai zhembulane
- Authors: Maria Taime , Chopi women , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Folk songs, Chopi , Chopi (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Zavala f-mz
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/193226 , vital:45311 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR204-07
- Description: The song is addressed to a girl of easy virture. The singer adds at the end of the song that she is the daughter of Taime (Time) Regulo Zavala. Morality song with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
Natitsanza ndiko
- Authors: Suni, Linda Luka , Chopi women , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-06-12
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Maxixe, Inhambane Province f-rh
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/201940 , vital:46444 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT-028 , Research no. CV8
- Description: Indigenous hymn with unaccompanied singing.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-06-12
Chitotwane
- Authors: Chitokiso, Natiawane , Chopi women , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-06-08
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Chopi , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Zavala District f-rh
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/200853 , vital:46286 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT-024 , Research no. CR23
- Description: Indigenous folk song with singing, clapping and a mixture of background cries and yodelling, accompanied by whistling.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-06-08
Malayishe
- Authors: Papatane, Chihitwe , Chopi women , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-06-08
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Chopi , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Zavala District f-rh
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/200890 , vital:46290 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT-024 , Research no. CR25
- Description: Indigenous folk song with singing, clapping and a mixture of background cries and yodelling, accompanied by brief whistling.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-06-08
Ntini kachani ka Diphiyelo
- Authors: Chibisufude, Tindene , Chopi women , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-06-08
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Chopi , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Zavala District f-rh
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/200835 , vital:46283 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT-023 , Research no. CR22
- Description: Indigenous folk song of lament with singing, clapping, and intermittent yodelling and background cries.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-06-08
Ntini kachani ka Diphiyelo
- Authors: Chibisufude, Tindene , Chopi women , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-06-08
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Chopi , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Zavala District f-rh
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/200843 , vital:46282 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT-023 , Research no. CR22
- Description: Indigenous folk song of lament with singing, clapping, and intermittent yodelling and background cries.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-06-08
Ulevide
- Authors: Nomtoro, Bitekane , Chopi women , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-06-08
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Chopi , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Zavala District f-rh
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/200862 , vital:46287 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT-024 , Research no. CR24
- Description: Indigenous folk song with singing, clapping and a mixture of background cries and yodelling, accompanied by whistling.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-06-08
Chigama niMichongo
- Authors: Chopi women , wa Chitokiso, Nyapulwane , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-06-02
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Chopi , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Zandamela, Zavala District f-rh
- Language: Chpoi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/198274 , vital:45963 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT-011 , Research no. CL5
- Description: Indigenous folk work song sung when carrying cotton to the depot, with unaccompanied singing.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-06-02
Gongondo
- Authors: Chopi women , Mwutamula , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-06-02
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Chopi , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Zandamela, Zavala District f-rh
- Language: Chpoi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/198242 , vital:45959 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT-011 , Research no. CL3
- Description: Indigenous folk drinking song with singing and handclapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-06-02
Machatini
- Authors: Maviya , Chopi women , Mwutamula , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-06-02
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Chopi , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Zandamela, Zavala District f-rh
- Language: Chpoi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/198196 , vital:45954 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT-011 , Research no. CL1
- Description: Indigenous folk song of lament for the dead chief, Machatini, with singing and brief yodelling.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-06-02
Mawotana
- Authors: Chopi women , Machatini, Nwatamula , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-06-02
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Chopi , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Zandamela, Zavala District f-rh
- Language: Chpoi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/198318 , vital:45967 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT-011 , Research no. CL8
- Description: Indigenous folk party song with singing, clapping and brief yodelling at the end.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-06-02
Nguwekelo
- Authors: Chopi women , Mwutamula , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-06-02
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Chopi , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Zandamela, Zavala District f-rh
- Language: Chpoi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/198224 , vital:45957 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT-011 , Research no. CL2
- Description: Indigenous folk song of lament for the dead chief, Machatini, with singing, clapping and intermittent yodelling.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-06-02
Wa Ka Mavulula
- Authors: Chopi women , Machatini, Maviya , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-06-02
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Chopi , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Zandamela, Zavala District f-rh
- Language: Chpoi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/198305 , vital:45966 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT-011 , Research no. CL7
- Description: Indigenous folk song with singing and brief intermittent yodelling.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-06-02
Waloyi
- Authors: Chopi women , Machatini, Sefane , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-06-02
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Chopi , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Zandamela, Zavala District f-rh
- Language: Chpoi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/198269 , vital:45962 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT-011 , Research no. CL4
- Description: Indigenous folk song of personal lament, with singing, clapping, brief yodelling and intermittent background whistling.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-06-02