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Mwanamigika baba Mabale

- Kija, Murikuru, Sukuma men, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Mwanamigika baba Mabale (Baba Mabale you have been deceived)

- Mwikuru Kija with Sukuma men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Mwikuru Kija with Sukuma men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Nyamwezi (African people) , Sukuma (African people) , Folk songs, Sukuma , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Maswa f-tz
  • Language: Nyamwezi , Sukuma
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173808 , vital:42412 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR152-13
  • Description: The chief had told him he should go to the next village where a competition "eating lumps of porridge" was going on. But when he arrived he found there was no such competition. "Eating lumps of porridge" was used for a music competition where singers and instrumentalists compete against each other in friendly rivalry. The style of singing displayed in this item is very similar to that used by young Zulu men in South Africa in the industrial centres, where it is called the 'Mbude' style or 'Bombing'. Volume rather than quality is the criterion of their singing. Wigasha dance song for men and women.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Mwangalile leke Ndali na Kasago

- Nyamwezi Musicians, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Mwangalile leke ndali na wasoga

- Hashima Bin Kilamata with Nyamwezi men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Hashima Bin Kilamata with Nyamwezi men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Nyamwezi (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Mwadui f-tz
  • Language: Nyamwezi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173246 , vital:42349 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR150-01
  • Description: "Everyone despises me because I make love to ugly women." The leader was dressed up in his dancing kit, with feather head dress, red ochre on the face and rag dress. The singers were workers on the Mwadui diamond mines, recruited locally. The song features a character whom they call Sajeni Meja (Sergeant Major) no doubt on account of the fact that several of them served for a while in the K.A.R., the Kings' African Rifles. During the singing they call out the familiar cry used by the soilders of the King's African Rifles. The moral problems of the disintegrated family and tribal life present themselves at every turn and especially in the towns or industrial areas where large bodies of men are attracted to work. Hiyari ya moyo dance song for men and women, with metal cylindrical drum, and conical pegged drum and bells.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Mwanza

- Selemani, Idi, Nyamwezi men and women, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Mwanza

- Idi Selemani, Nyamwezi men and women, composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Mwanza

- Idi Selemani with Nyamwezi men and women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Idi Selemani with Nyamwezi men and women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Zinza (African people) , Rundi (African people) , Nyamwezi (African people) , Folk songs, Rundi , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Dar-es-Salaam f-tz
  • Language: Nyamwezi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173074 , vital:42319 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR148-17
  • Description: "Masunga is a such a lovely girl. I would follow her right up to Mwanza if she left me." Mwanza is about the furthest limit of his geopraphical knowledge and he would therefore follow her to 'the ends of the earth'. It is the lake port at the south of the Lake Victoria about four hundred miles from Dar-es-Salaam where this item was composed and sung. The soloist, Idi, is a never ending source of enjoyment to his friends with a perfect set of mine gestures with which to illustrate the words he sings. Selemani's speech is a liberal mixture of Nyamwezi and Swahili. He leads these lively songs sung by a very lively company of Nyamwezi singers who bring out many surprises during their amusing performances. Humorous song with goblet drum, pegged and footed.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

N'gwadila ng'wiza wane baba rumi

- Luchenje Nyanda, Sukuma men, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

N'gwadila ng'wiza wane baba rumi

- Luchenje Nyanda, Sukuma men, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Nakakanilwa kwimba mbele (When I sing)

- Wachezaji wa Manyanga. Leader, Kasomangila Husen Ishike, Hugh Tracey

Nalelua lele-lele-la, deleva nalelua (Carry on driver)

- Wachezaji wa Manyanga. Leader, Kasomangila Husen Ishike, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Wachezaji wa Manyanga. Leader, Kasomangila Husen Ishike , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Nyamwezi (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Baraza Ndono f-tz
  • Language: Nyamwezi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173228 , vital:42347 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR149-13
  • Description: "Drive on driver, I have nothing to give you." They sing to the driver of the lorry as he passes. There is a touch of romance associated with teh drivers of long distance lorries, rather like that of the sailors in the days of sail, or the engine drivers of the very early trains and mail coaches. Manyanga dance song for men, with 3 conical laced drums, 1 Goblet pegged drum (-14.51101-) and bells (-12.55-).
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Nalilimelwa wa ng'wa kayemba

- Welelo, Sucha, sukuma men, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Nalilimelwa wa ng’wa kayemba

- Welelo Sucha with Sukuma men and women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Welelo Sucha with Sukuma men and women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Nyamwezi (African people) , Sukuma (African people) , Folk songs, Sukuma , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Shinyanga f-tz
  • Language: Nyamwezi , Sukuma
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173522 , vital:42380 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR151-11
  • Description: "I failed to fight the Masai." The Masai are the famous pastoralists who live on the far side of the Serengeti plains to the east. Last year, 1949, the Masai raided the Sukuma and took over one thousand head of cattle from them. The Puba dance is done in teams. The girls in two lines and the boys in two lines behind them. They move to and fro in file and leap into the air in time with the rhythm of the dance music. Puba dance song for men and women with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Natung'wanha natukima

- Bundi, Mbilo, Sukuma men, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Natung’wanha natukima

- Mbilo Bundi with Sukuma men, Hugh Tracey

Ndagula mwana sigalila

- Asha, Nyamwezi women, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Ndikakowa wanyambo

- Tatu Binti Ali, Nyamwezi men and women, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Ndikakowa wanyambo

- Tatu Binti Ali with Nyamwezi men and women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Tatu Binti Ali with Nyamwezi men and women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Nyamwezi (African people) , Sukuma (African people) , Folk songs, Sukuma , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Dar-es-Salaam f-tz
  • Language: Nyamwezi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173291 , vital:42354 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR150-06
  • Description: "I will go and marry somewhere else, because all the girls think I am not faithful." The singers are all Nyamwezi who have come down to the East coast from the interior near Tabora and have now settled permanently at the coast in or around Dar-es-Salaam. These Nyamwezi singers of Dar-es-Salaam have an attractive way of singing their songs repeating each stanza after the soloist. This style may well have been copied from the Arabs or Swahili. Tatu Binti Ali is the young wife of Idi Selemani the organiser of the group. Hiyari ya moyo dance song for men and women..
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Ndikakowa Wanyambo

- Tatu Binti Ali, Nyamwezi men and women, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Ndikakowa wanyambo

- Tatu Binti Ali, Nyamwezi men and women, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

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