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Zuwa na mwezi

- Yelele Lungu, Nsenga women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Yelele Lungu , Nsenga women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1949
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Petauke f-za
  • Language: Nsenga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184464 , vital:44225 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR185-08
  • Description: The sun and the moon are contrasted as lovers. The son returns to his mother if he is unsucceful in love and the mother sees in the hooting of the owls the omen of death to come. The player Yelele Lungu is one of two blind muscians in the Petauke district. Blind from birth he has developed an unusual degree of petic imagery. He had bever seen either the sun or the moon and his poetry consequently reflected a blind man's conception of natural phenomena. Unfortunately owing to technical difficulties both his recordings on this disc are poor, but his poetry warranted their inclusion. Love song, with Kalimba of 10 notes
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  • Date Issued: 1949

Zumina unditole ulibama (If toy don't love me, send me back to my mother)

- 2 Tonga women and 2 young girls, Hugh Tracey

Zamapembe sesiyandinda

- Kiti Shunga, Ngoni men and women, Nsenga women, Hugh Tracey

Zakanaka musikana e yeye (It is all right, girl)

- Jerevani Siakuteka, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Jerevani Siakuteka , 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/10962/139010 , vital:37695 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR046-08
  • Description: The onlookers occassionally make comments especially if they like the song. "Chabota" - good or "Play well, so that the children will listen to you." And, "I will sit all day and smoke while you play," Chief Chipepo made this last remark. The chief in these parts is addressed as "Mwami" , as in Ruanda-Urundi. Tuning of the instrument as follows: 384, 352, 316, 288, 256, 232, 208, 192 vps. Self-delectative song with Deza mbira, board and external resonator.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Yalila ngololo kutwaga belega (You were praised by the man you worked for)

- Group of Tonga men and women led by Joseph Munyeme, Hugh Tracey

Yakonyomba

- Timoti Sadimbi, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Timoti Sadimbi , 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/10962/138956 , vital:37689 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR046-02
  • Description: Played with 3 notes. The notes were roughly hewn pieces of wood laid across the thighs ans played by means of sticks. In this case, the player stood behind the back of the young man on whose thighs the notes were played and beat the notes bending forward over his shoulders. The man acting as xylophone stand sat on a stool with his feet on another stool. Beneath his thighs was a large pot used as simple external resonator. The instrument is played out in the fields when preparing the winter gardens in May. Once the gardens are planted, the xylophone notes are discarded and used as fire wood, new ones being cut each year. The position of the loose notes was changed with each change of tune to facilitate the playing of the item. The pause during the 3rd recording was caused by one of the notes rolling down the boys's thigh and having to be replaced. Self-delectative song with Chikirekore loose note xylophone x 4 notes, pot resonated.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Yachipondeka 'owe owe'

- Masaria and other Tonga women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Masaria and other 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/10962/138126 , vital:37596 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-01
  • Description: This song were taken during the actual grinding of millet into meal outside a hut. The millet was a fine brown variety known as Munga in Rhodesia. This small work song is sometimes well known by everyone in the village and commonly used by the women as they grind their corn on the stone outside their hut, or they are individual compositions without a name and with few words to the lyrics. Grinding song accompanied by the sound of grindstone.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Wo ye ye Ndaluwuluke (Woye - I am going forever)

- Jimu Machinje and wife (Ngonya), Hugh Tracey

Walianzi sunu Gengere (Where did you eat Gengere)

- Group of Tonga men, Hugh Tracey

Wai mwanangu (Where is my son?)

- Syadimana Nsaga, Hugh Tracey

Uyezwa ngendumo macaba ngendumo

- Joel M, Ngoni men, Nsenga women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Joel M , Ngoni men , Nsenga women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mzimba f-mw
  • Language: Nsenga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184482 , vital:44227 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR185-10
  • Description: This somg is taken from an old Ngoni regimental song which would, in the old days, have been used only as a song after hunting. This style of singing is indigenous to Zululand rather than Nyasaland and was brought up north in the early nineteenth century migration of the two distinct groups, the Jiri and the Gomani. The Jiri came up through the highlands of what is now Southern Rhodesia and sacked the settlement at Zimbabwe on their way. In one or two words the change over from the Zulu "L" to the Nyasa "R" can be discerned. After hunting and killing a lion the party will dance the Mgubo before the chief and earn an ox in reward. Mgubo dance song, after hunting leopard or lion
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Upendeka kukama (Nicely combed hair)

- Ruth, Jane Muchindu and group of Tonga women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Ruth, Jane Muchindu and 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/10962/138544 , vital:37648 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR044-06
  • Description: Pairs of dancers, girl and boy, came out and danced a rather stiff little dance together and then returned to the crowd, as another pair took their place. "When you go to town, do not tell my lover I am nearly a full grown girl, so that he will continue working and come back and find me quite grown up. Mankuntu dance song for boys and girls with 3 drums (Gogogo, Musunta, Mpati). Open and pegged, and played by hands.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Ulumbundubundu

- Timoti Sadimbi, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Timoti Sadimbi , 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/10962/138947 , vital:37688 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR046-01
  • Description: Played with 4 notes. The notes were roughly hewn pieces of wood laid across the thighs ans played by means of sticks. In this case, the player stood behind the back of the young man on whose thighs the notes were played and beat the notes bending forward over his shoulders. The man acting as xylophone stand sat on a stool with his feet on another stool. Beneath his thighs was a large pot used as simple external resonator. The instrument is played out in the fields when preparing the winter gardens in May. Once the gardens are planted, the xylophone notes are discarded and used as fire wood, new ones being cut each year. The position of the loose notes was changed with each change of tune to facilitate the playing of the item. The pause during the 3rd recording was caused by one of the notes rolling down the boys's thigh and having to be replaced. Self-delectative song with Chikirekore loose note xylophone x 4 notes, pot resonated.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Ulawika

- Four Tonga men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Four 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/10962/138471 , vital:37640 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR043-12
  • Description: Towards the end the Mwani of Sinefwala leaned forward and said over the shoulders of the men: "These are the riddles of my country." It is clear from the recording that the rest of the villagers enjoyed it very much. Riddles.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Tuwamba kayobwa (We are praying for clouds)

- 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/10962/138089 , vital:37592 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR041-13
  • Description: The Valley Tonga have rain shrines in or near most of their larger villages where the people will come and humbly beg for rain through the medium of their rain officials specially appointed for this duty. The begging or imploring is done by the clappingof hands in respect and supplication to the Midzimu or whatever spirits are concerned with bringing rain in the early summer months of October to December. The women appear to be specially associated with the ceremonies and sing many such "rain songs." Rain song with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Tulila menda (We are crying for rain)

- Tonga women led by Maria Musange, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Tonga women led by Maria Musange , 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/10962/138062 , vital:37589 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR041-10
  • Description: The Chief stood behind the leader and spoke over her shoulder. The clapping is complex. This song, they said. was one of those sung by women to help bring the rain at the beginning of the summer season in October, November and December. Rain song, with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Tula manina Kongolos (We are going to Congress)

- Ruth, Jane Muchindu and group of Tonga women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Ruth, Jane Muchindu and 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/10962/138563 , vital:37650 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR044-07
  • Description: A girl in the crowd was wearing a circlet of cowrie shells placed flat on the crown of her head. Her hair was covered with red orchre. Another girl wore several tubular bead girdles, beautifully worked, from one which hung a short bead apron. This, they say, is the tribal dress of the Tonga, which is seen at its best on the South Rhodesian side of the river or further up the river. This village had been much affected by the activities of the local political body known as the African National Congress (Kongolos), members of which had tried to persuade the Tonga that the waters of the Kariba Dam would not rise, and collected fees from the villagers. Mankuntu dance song for boys and girls with 3 drums (Gogogo, Musunta, Mpati). Open and pegged, and played by hands.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Tonkanono katere kano (Tonkanono is very tasty)

- 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/10962/138297 , vital:37620 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-17
  • Description: "When you have a special kind of relish and you put salt in it, you say it is very tasty indeed, and thank the cook." Salt is a rare commodity in the valley and is obtained with difficulty from the grasses growing near the hot springs. Consequently it is often reserved, they say, from special dishes of relish such as this tonkanono (whose indentity we were unable to establish). Mendicant's song with sound of feet and clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Tomujayi muntu mwana mwanike angu (Don't kill anyone, my brother's son)

- Siachema and his friends, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Siachema and his friends , 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/10962/138099 , vital:37593 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR041-14
  • Description: "If you kill someone; you will go to prison at Gwembe. They will bring ropes to tie your hands and feet. What has tempted you to kill people? You must think of what I'm telling you now." Tuning of the instrument:- 592, 528, 480, 432, 400, 356, 320, 296, 264, 240 vps. Morality song with Kankowela mbira, fanshaped, with external resonator.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Telela (Listen)

- Samuel Musange, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Samuel Musange , 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/10962/138608 , vital:37655 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR045-02
  • Description: "Listen, we are going for a meeting, we are all going to dance the Masabe. - Listen, all of you.- "What is that noise? The noise of the aeroplane. We hear the noise but we have never seen the aeroplane." Msabe dance song with 3 drums. (Mgogo: open, pegged and played with sticks. Masunta and Mpati, open, pegged and played with hands.)
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  • Date Issued: 1957
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