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Peny gi Polo

- Elisha Nyakango, Hugh Tracey

Nalungunyo

- Maunda Waliaula with Bukusu men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Maunda Waliaula with Bukusu men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Bukusu (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Malakasi f-ke
  • Language: Bukusu
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/176535 , vital:42711 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR162-05
  • Description: Nalung'unyo was a quarrelsome wife who insisted that her husband divorce all his other wives and keep her only. Instead he divorced her as she was troublesome. The two singers occasionally imitate the sound of the lyre strings. Topical song, with Litungu 7 string long lyres, and 1 Luhengele inverted bowl (-12.151-).
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Mwali wa Ngwi

- Kanyense Muange, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Kanyense Muange , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Kamba , Kamba (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Machakos f-ke
  • Language: Kamba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/175977 , vital:42646 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR160-12
  • Description: Mwali is the name for the traditional way of retailing or chanting a legend, and Mwathi is a song. The singer boasts that he alone is the best singer of the district and greets his clever friends who make decorations for the dancers. In his second item he describes also the rifles he carried as a soilder. Praise chant.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Kongoi lakok a Kenya

- Paolo Arap Maiyo with Nandi men, Hugh Tracey

Kin anyone en Arap Nairobi

- Chebitet Arap Muina, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Chebitet Arap Muina , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Kipsigis (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Sotik f-ke
  • Language: Kipsigis
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/177703 , vital:42849 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR165-15
  • Description: The song describes a donkey's complaint. It was brought from Nairobi, it says, when it was much fatter. Unlike lucky men. it does not recieve money as wages but only maize. "Don't bother me but leave me alone" says the donkey. The Chepkseem is a wishbone shaped instrument, virtually the two arms and yoke of the lyre but without the usual resonating bowl. The tuning was:- 316, 268, 240, 220, 188 vs. Arap Towett was the name of the Kipsigis interpreter who translated all his peoples songs for us. Topical song, with Chepkesem 5 string frame lyre (external resonator - petrol tin).
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Mwali wa Mbengi

- Kyule wa Kala, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Kyule wa Kala , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Kamba , Kamba (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Machakos f-ke
  • Language: Kamba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/175947 , vital:42644 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR160-10
  • Description: This chanting is the local traditional method of handing on legends. In this example the performer praises the beauty of certain people and particularly of a girl called Mbengi who is quite the most lovely creature on earth. "While I sing of her I wish no one else to utter a sound. I can recite so well that my words alone might make a girl conceive or make a poor man rich." Chanted prose legend.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Tumbo yangu inanibuma

- Kalachu Mwinji with Nika boys, Hugh Tracey

Kamwhino wa Mwikya

- Munyithya wa Kyenze, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Munyithya wa Kyenze , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Kamba , Kamba (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Machakos f-ke
  • Language: Kamba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/175851 , vital:42630 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR160-04
  • Description: The singer sings to his lost love. He reminds her that he loved her even before she grew up. He had asked her to speak to him, but she refused and used to speak to another. The singer uses his lute as a rhythmic rather than a melodic instrument. His voice appears to be pitched well above the instrument. His voice appears to be pitched well above the two basic notes of his lute, but the interval may bear some constant relationship which is not discernable to a foreign ear at first hearing. On the other hand the lute may be considered as a two note 'drone' to the melody. It will be noticed that the pitch of his lute slightly lower in this and the next song "Musenga." Love song, with Mbebe, one string, bowed lute.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Peter Okola

- Nyawaga Mgele, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Nyawaga Mgele , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Luo (Kenyan and Tanzanian people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Siaya f-ke
  • Language: Luo
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/177880 , vital:42885 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR166-13
  • Description: The player sits on a wooden pillow with small metal bells strung onto the calf of his right leg. He also has an iron ring on the big toe with which he strikes the lower arm of the lyre which is resting on the floor. 'Peter Okole, an African sub inspector of police was invited to a party to play hs lyric. He was embrassed at the beginning of the meal when he was asked to say grace as he did not know one. He remembers what a high class family this was and how people should learn manners from them. Morality song with Thum 8 string lyre, leg bells (-12.55-) and Adoung toe ring (-12.151-).
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Mauko

- Charles Wanga with Wanga men, Hugh Tracey

John Otwal

- Anton Mito and Luo men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Anton Mito and Luo men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Luo (Kenyan and Tanzanian people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Bondo f-ke
  • Language: Luo
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/178102 , vital:42908 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR167-09
  • Description: "John Otwal, so the singer states, had helped him when he had no transport from Kisumu to his homw and, in addition, had presented him with 100 shillings as a token of affection and esteem. He wanted all the people to know what a good friend he was. The intrusion of the foreign instrument, the accordion has undoubtedly modified the original folk idiom but to what extent it has affected the style of song is not yet known. Praise song for a friend with accordion, sound box (-12.16-) and iron (-12.151-).
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Kamano

- Akito Arap Yeko, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Akito Arap Yeko , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Mijikenda (African people) , Nandi (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Kapsabet f-ke
  • Language: Nandi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/176853 , vital:42765 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR164-04
  • Description: This lyre is strummed like a guitar with the right hand, the left hand stopping the five strings, like the Bongwe Zither of Nyasaland. This gave two chords. Notes 1, 3, and 5 and notes 2 and 4. One string, they said, was missing, the lower octave of No. 1. The scale was:- 308, 256, 232, 206, 180, (154) vs. The tune comes from the Luo people in the valleys below but has had Nandi words put to it. It is a song of praise for the Nandi country and other places which the singer and his audience have visited. Topical song with Kipukandet 5 string lyre.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Wathi wa ota

- Mutio wa Katuma, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Mutio wa Katuma , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Kamba , Kamba (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Machakos f-ke
  • Language: Kamba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/175889 , vital:42635 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR160-07
  • Description: This musical bow is a plain bow, loosely strung and strained by means of a half section gourd, which is situated between the bow and the wire string. The concave side is held against the bow, the convex against the string. The singer sings into this hollow gourd and beats the string with a light stick producing one note only. Other players may beat both segments of the string thus producing two fundamental notes Divination song, with musical bow, strained and resonated with half gourd.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Suchi

- Chepkorir and 4 small Kipsigis girls, Hugh Tracey

Siolo

- Chebitet Arap Maina, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Chebitet Arap Maina , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Kipsigis (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Kapkatet f-ke
  • Language: Kipsigis
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/177835 , vital:42880 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR166-08
  • Description: The Ketuba 8 string lyre has the same order of notes as the Thum played by the luo people to the west near the lake Victoria. The first and second strings are duplicated by the seveth and eigth. The singer extrolls the finess of the places and people in his district. Praise song with Ketuba 8 string bowl lyre (-10.621 x 8-).
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Arap Momoen I

- Arap Ng'asuru, Hugh Tracey

Odhiambo Odet

- Ogalo Mirasi, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Ogalo Mirasi , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Kenya , Luo (Kenya and Tanzanian people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Kisumu f-ke
  • Language: Luo
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/178703 , vital:42976 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR168-01
  • Description: Odhiambo is a wonderful person with eyes so bright he could even see to write in the desk. When he was named as a child all the birds and beasts came round to see this remarkable babe. The box is struck with the iron and the iron is sounded with an iron nail or small bolt. Praise song, with Orotu one string lute sound box (-12.16-) ans iron (-12.151-).
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Sigilai

- Kipsigis girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Kipsigis girls , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Kipsigis (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Kapkatet f-ke
  • Language: Kipsigis
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/177662 , vital:42844 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR165-13
  • Description: This song refers to the man Sigilai who first introduced the Chemonget, one of the Kipsigis lyres. They sing "who brought the Chemonget? Sigilai!" Children anywhere are usually poor subjects for recording and there are no exception. These two items are included to show how small Kipsigis girls perform Both songs show a possibility of school (foreign) influence. Topical song
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Alego, tat yien matingo tek

- Muruka Ndai Fula, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Muruka Ndai Fula , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Luo (Kenyan and Tanzanian people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Siaya f-ke
  • Language: Luo
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/177871 , vital:42884 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR166-12
  • Description: A local proverb runs "a wooden roof is hard to carry". This means that it is not easy to rule over men. Alego is a rich grain growing district and the singer exhorts his countrymen to help and no hinder those in authority. Patriotic song with Gara leg bells and stamping
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Niila nkwoma tene

- Munyithya wa Kyenze, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Munyithya wa Kyenze , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Kamba , Kamba (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Machakos f-ke
  • Language: Kamba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/175833 , vital:42628 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR160-02
  • Description: ""It is long since I last sang your praises. It is long since I last saw you, my dear." The singer uses his lute as a rhythmic rather than a melodic instrument. His voice appears to be pitched well above the instrument. His voice appears to be pitched well above the two basic notes of his lute, but the interval may bear some constant relationship which is not discernable to a foreign ear at first hearing. On the other hand the lute may be considered as a two note 'drone' to the melody. It will be noticed that the pitch of his lute slightly lower in this and the next song "Musenga." Love song, with Mbebe, one string, bowed lute.
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  • Date Issued: 1950
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