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Malona diya wadikenge leli kufwa (Malona was warned of danger)

- Group of 14 Lunda men and 4 women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of 14 Lunda men and 4 women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Southern Lunda (African people) , Folk music , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Mwinilungu f-za
  • Language: Lunda
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139357 , vital:37730 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0047-14
  • Description: "Malona was warned of danger but she paid no attention and thus met with an accident." This song follows common Lunda pattern with the chorus singing in organum. The Lunda tribe occupy the watershed from which three great rivers arise: the Zambezi, the Lualaba and the Kasai, the one flowing east to the Indian ocean and the other two comprising the main southern branches of the Congo flowing westwards to the Atlantic. Kahaku ceremonial dance song with rattle and struck bottle.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Mutshwa kusaeuhamhish Musoka wa (The Judge, Musoka, is going)

- Group of 9 Lunda men, Hugh Tracey

Ntende

- Large group of Lunda women and Kalemba, Performer not specified, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Ntende

- Large group of Lunda women and Kalemba, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Large group of Lunda women and Kalemba , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Southern Lunda (African people) , Folk music , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo Democratic Republic Kabinda f-cg
  • Language: Lunda
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139481 , vital:37742 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR048-08
  • Description: The larger drum was also tapped on the side by a stick. The clapping was done with cupped hands. The Chief de Centre Kapenda, was the head of this group. Jadotville is the headquaters of the central region of the Union Miniere, the other 2 towns being Elizabethville in the East and Kolwezi in the West. It was originally famous for the fact that one of the mines, Shinkolobwe, was the first place in the world from which the famous Curie family obtained the radium for their experiments. At Panda, there is a museum of mineral crystals discovered in the Katanga mines. Kawidi dance with 2 goblet drums, pinned, weighted, with mirlitons, hand beaten.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Nyambilichina twali akwawu ku Muwewu (Nyambilichi is taking other girls to Muwewu) (

- Group of 14 Lunda men and 4 women, Hugh Tracey

Sabwabwa

- Group of 5 Kete men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of 5 Kete men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Southern Lunda (African people) , Folk music , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Katanga f-cg
  • Language: Lunda
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139402 , vital:37735 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR048-03
  • Description: The slit drum is called mutumba (the canoe) and the cylindrical drum is Nguma. This group is situated between the Lunda and the Luba. A notably fierce and savage people. They come from the extreme south of the Kasai-near the Angola border. This dance was (in the old days) danced with a slave in the midst. At the final "Ho" (characteristic of the dance) the slave's head was severed at a single blow. The 3 xylophones were propped up at sn angle of about 45 degrees by small forked sticks. The resonators were either gourds or lengths of bamboo with open mirliton. The bamboo resonators were palstered with mud, presumably to stop their cracking. Each note was attached to the frame with a simple cord, but prevented from slipping by a second string attached near the node and made fast onto the frame. The insulating material on the frame was a bundle of long grass in each case. The three xylophones were called:- Dujimba devase. " dwapakadie. " dwa mukuma. Maza dance for men and women with 1 slit drum (canoe), 1 weighted cylindrical drum (Nguma), open hand beaten and 3 xylophones.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Sabwabwa

- 5 Kete men, Performer not specified, composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Tiana pa makulu

- Group of Lunda women and Albertina Kashiala, Hugh Tracey

Tulele mam'we we u chiku chimbundu (We sleep here / The night mist)

- Kalemba and large group of Lunda women, Hugh Tracey

Wela welenu mama- o muku welada mi nshona (You must be clean, neat and tidy)

- Group of 14 Lunda men and 4 women, Hugh Tracey

Ya ya woye

- Large group of Lunda women and Kalemba, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Large group of Lunda women and Kalemba , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Southern Lunda (African people) , Folk music , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo Democratic Republic Kabinda f-cg
  • Language: Lunda
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139495 , vital:37744 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR048-10
  • Description: The larger drum was also tapped on the side by a stick. The clapping was done with cupped hands. The Chief de Centre Kapenda, was the head of this group. Jadotville is the headquaters of the central region of the Union Miniere, the other 2 towns being Elizabethville in the East and Kolwezi in the West. It was originally famous for the fact that one of the mines, Shinkolobwe, was the first place in the world from which the famous Curie family obtained the radium for their experiments. At Panda, there is a museum of mineral crystals discovered in the Katanga mines. Kawidi dance with 2 goblet drums, pinned, weighted, with mirlitons, hand beaten.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957

Yave- yave (Kafoya greetings)

- Group of 9 Lunda men, Hugh Tracey

Malikawna

- Francois, Mulauda, Composer unknown, Tracey, Hugh

Mbanda wa Sirinta

- Zenzi, Gibsoni, Composer unknown, Tracey, Hugh

Mwanami waya mwiyawu

- Zenzi, Gibsoni, Composer unknown, Tracey, Hugh

Udina Kuzara Ndowayami

- Zenzi, Gibsoni, Composer unknown, Tracey, Hugh

Chihibalumuna bembi

- Louis Mulowa and Lunda men, Hugh Tracey

Chila twachinda naba matombo

- Children of the Mindola African school, Hugh Tracey

Chila twachinda naba Matombo

- Children of the African School Mindola, performer not specified, composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Chimbalumuna bembi

- Louis Melua, Lunda men, composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

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