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Nkunte njinga Andre Ciku

"Nandi ubeya Kumikoti." (I too am a recruit for the copper belt"

  • Authors: Group of 6 Aushi men and Edward Shoni. , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Africa Zambia Fort Roseberry f-za
  • Language: Aushi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134367 , vital:37134 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0019-10
  • Description: The song says: "I lived for a long time in the country and then decided to come and work on the copper belt. And I was terribly frightened and afraid of everything to bein with." Song to celebrate the depature of a boy to the copper belt.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Eco bale mukanina bamayo (This is why you are being divorced, mama)

  • Authors: Isaac Matafwani and Sunkutu , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Ruund (African people) , Ushi (African people) , Congo (Democratic Republic) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Fort Roseberry f-za
  • Language: Aushi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/140038 , vital:37826 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR053-02
  • Description: "This is why you are divorced, mama, it is because you go out and greet others familiarly, such as 'Good morning, Isaac.' Far away along the Ndola road is where I saw a Lamba man, who addressed me saying: "Isaac, you will not have any more children. This is your last child." The general burden of this song, like many others performed in industrial compounds, is both topical and critical of the morality of the present day mine worker in this environment. Topical song with guitar and bottle.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Ematambo waifwe bantu (The bones of the people)

  • Authors: Stephen Tsotsi Kasumali and 2 friends , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Ushi (African people) , Music--Zambia , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Fort Roseberry f-za
  • Language: Aushi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/140067 , vital:37829 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR053-04
  • Description: "When you go on duty, someone else comes and makes love to your wife-that means a fine of much money. A the beer hall you go to drink eleven quarts of wine and then afterwards, go to make love to someone else's wife. And then-caught-you have to pay, and be despised by your own son and daughter. Morality song with guitar and bottle.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Joni mwana Seke (Joni, the child of Seke)

  • Authors: Group of 5 Aushi boys , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Topical songs , Africa Zambia Fort Roseberry f-za
  • Language: Aushi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134413 , vital:37146 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0019-15
  • Description: The singers say they went to compete with others and acquitted themselves very well. Unfortunately their best singer Joni, was not there. Topical song.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957

Maiyo ewandaile kufwalu chikwembe (My mother taught me the proper way to dress)

Mayo mulume wandi nichinshele (Mother, my husband is a good for nothing)

Mwehanensu ifitala (Our friends are jealous)

  • Authors: Group of 5 Aushi boys , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Topical songs , Africa Zambia Fort Roseberry f-za
  • Language: Aushi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134418 , vital:37147 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0019-16
  • Description: The singers say they went to compete with others and acquitted themselves very well. Unfortunately their best singer Joni, was not there. Topical song.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957

Mwehanensu ifitala (Our friends are jealous)

Tapali ataleya Ka mumbo (Is there anyone going to my home)

  • Authors: Group of 11 Aushi men. , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Kalela (Dance) , Africa Zambia Fort Roseberry f-za
  • Language: Aushi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134376 , vital:37136 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0019-11
  • Description: This group came from the swamps near lake Bangwelu and belonged to the Lumbo section of the Aushi tribe. Kalela dance song with 3 bass drums, cylindrical, laced, 2 wooden beaters each, double-headed.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957

Tapali ataleya Ka mumbo (Is there anyone going to my home)

  • Authors: Group of 11 Aushi men. , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Kalela (Dance) , Africa Zambia Fort Roseberry f-za
  • Language: Aushi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134385 , vital:37137 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0019-12
  • Description: "Is there anyone going to my house, for I would like to give him a message." The 3 drums were made from steel oil drums of different sizes from 4 gallons to 20 gallons. Their heavy reverberation made it almost impossible to record them effectively with the singers. Each drummer played his own rhythm which in 2 cases included blows on the side of the drum as well as on the membrane. Although double-headed, they were stood up on end for the performance, only one membrane being struck. Kalela dance song with 3 bass drums, cylindrical, laced, 2 wooden beaters each, double-headed.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957

Tito, we miripwa naya kukabanga (Tito, don't imitate)

Tuibale bonse nwe nseba (Let's flock together like nseba birds)

Ukuteka imbwa mano (To keep a dog)

  • Authors: Stephen Tsotsi Kasumali and 2 friends , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Ushi (African people) , Music--Zambia , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Fort Roseberry f-za
  • Language: Aushi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/140058 , vital:37828 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR053-03
  • Description: This song is based on an old traditional song teaching good behaviour. "To keep a dog one must be wise-if you take a stick it will run away. In the same way we must be tactful with our wives. If we use force, we shall fail to control them. A bad wife is not neccessarily the one who talks too much, and a good wife is not neccessarily one who talks less. By all means, let us see what we see, but we should not give our ears to everything we hear." The singer adds: "I heard this song from the Lala." The whole song is performed in a kind of recitative with call and answer. Morality song with guitar and bottle.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957

We mulanda e muchalo chelamba (There is sadness in the Lamba country)

  • Authors: Group of 11 Aushi men. , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Kalela (Dance) , Africa Zambia Fort Roseberry f-za
  • Language: Aushi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134394 , vital:37139 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0019-13
  • Description: The Lamba country is virtually the heavily wooded district along the course of the upper Kafue river, where all the Northern Rhodesian copper belt mines are situated. The 3 drums were made from steel oil drums of different sizes from 4 gallons to 20 gallons. Their heavy reverberation made it almost impossible to record them effectively with the singers. Each drummer played his own rhythm which in 2 cases included blows on the side of the drum as well as on the membrane. Although double-headed, they were stood up on end for the performance, only one membrane being struck. Kalela dance song with 3 bass drums, cylindrical, laced, 2 wooden beaters each, double-headed.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957

We nkalemo yachile (The leader (lion) of the dance)

  • Authors: T. Sibakwe, N. Veleshiano and S. Mwansa , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Ushi (African people) , Music--Zambia , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Fort Roseberry f-za
  • Language: Aushi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/140123 , vital:37836 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR053-09
  • Description: "How many tribes are there? The Lamba, the Lenje, the Lumbo not forgetting the Kande, because we admire their language. We make fun of the Nyakyusa and the Kasai, on account of their dress; plain dresses are just as good. Look at a girl from the Mumbo region, she does not dress like a Kasai, yet look at her beautiful clothes. When you change over from your country dress, do not take quickly to town dresses and become a prostitute. Kalela dance song.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957

Abasungu balisa-we tata

  • Authors: Philemon Kalela , Group of Bemba men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Lozi (African people) , Bemba (African people) , Folk songs, Bemba , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Fort Roseberry f-za
  • Language: Lozi , Bemba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183808 , vital:44071 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR182-17
  • Description: "The White people have come, father, they are flying in the sky. They have made the smelter. They have made the shaft. They brought money. They have come here for good, they will never turn back from our country. They have settled in our (Lamba) country, these settlers of the Copper Belt." This refers to great industrial intrusion into this part of Africa where large deposits of copper are now being mined in what used to be a remote and densely wooded part of the country. Topical song
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1952

Owachitawala

  • Authors: Philemon Kalela , Group of Bemba men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Lozi (African people) , Bemba (African people) , Folk songs, Bemba , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Fort Roseberry f-za
  • Language: Lozi , Bemba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183798 , vital:44070 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR182-16
  • Description: A song making fun of the Watchtower sect which holds its meetings every Monday and Wednesday in different private houses. The singers were alleged to be Catholics but that did not stop their singing the songs of the rival church. The word Chitawala is made up of the syllables of the English word heard by African Wachi-ta-wa-la. The local Bemba being unable to say an'R', preferring the 'L'. Topical song
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1952
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