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Ndoende Sinoia

- Simon Sitole, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Simon Sitole , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1948
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Shona (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Mt. Selinda f-rh
  • Language: Shona
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/181780 , vital:43767 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR176-10
  • Description: Simon Sitole from Mt. Selinda was working in a native carpenter's shop in Sophiatown, Johannesburg. The town of Sinoial is a hundred miles or so to the west of Salisbury and about 300 miles from the singer's home. "I go to Sinoia because my home is too far away." Topical song with Mbira dza WaNdau
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  • Date Issued: 1948

Baba ndarota kufa

- Sitole, Simon, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Ndoende Sinoia

- Sitole, Simon, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Ndoerera

- Sitole, Simon, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Kufa kusina dangwe

- Sitole, Simon, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Hiyo woye, Busai-we

- Sitole, Simon, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Neiwe unonyanya

- Sitole, Simon Mafiru, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Ndinochema amasebe

- Sitole, Simon Mafiru, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Here, mwana-we

- Sitole, Simon Mafiru, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Ruwe-ruwe

- Sitole, Simon Mafiru, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Sitole, Simon Mafiru , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1957-03-01
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Not specified f-rh
  • Language: Ndau , Shona
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/227440 , vital:49447 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT382-L3 , Research no. L1B7
  • Description: A personal lament about the death of a father meaning nothing to the children accompanied by mbira and deze resonator.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957-03-01

Kuwe kuwe ngoma

- Teacher Training College, Composer unknown, Tracey, Hugh

Mcinanga

- Teacher Training College, Composer unknown, Tracey, Hugh

Madumbu nemanyere

- Teachers Training College, Penhalonga, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Teachers Training College, Penhalonga , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1949
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Mangwende f-rh
  • Language: Shona
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180592 , vital:43408 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR170-01
  • Description: One of the many variations of the story of the "Lion on the path." The woman is held up by lions on the wrong path she has taken and is rescued by her relatives village where they enjoy beer and dancing. In the dance song he admonishes her not to argue about his instructions but always take the road that he tells her to take, or one day she will be eaten by lions. Story song.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1949

Tsuro woye

- Teachers Training College, Penhalonga, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Teachers Training College, Penhalonga , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1951
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Goromonze f-rh
  • Language: Shona
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180690 , vital:43602 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR170-11
  • Description: A woman gave her child to a rabbit to look after, but the rabbit ran away with it. She put a pumpkin in her cloth on her back in order to decieve her husband. He was not decieved. So she sang a song to the rabbit. "Rabbit, rabbit! the sun is setting fast like a river in flood." The rabbit eventually brought the child back, when it was tired of playing with the child. Story song, with 2 rattles.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1951

Samanyemba ne Nzou

- Teachers Training College, Penhalonga, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Teachers Training College, Penhalonga , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1949
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Mangwende f-rh
  • Language: Shona
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180601 , vital:43589 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR170-02
  • Description: The story of an elephant who was given a child to liik after. "I have brought up so many children, that is easy, leave it to me" said the elephant. So he took the child away into the thick bush. When evening came she called the elephant to bring the child back. But there was no reply. So she went home to tell her husband and to collect the men to come and help her find the elephant. They came straight away, found the footprints of the elephant and followed them into the bush singing to the elephant as they went. At this point the recording ends without the denouement, so we shall never know if she got her child back or not. Whenever the word or refrain 'Samanyemba' is used in a Karanga song it is usually associated with decit. It appears that Samanyemba was the father of all liars - men were deceivers ever. Story song.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1949

Kuwe kuwe ngoma

- Teachers Training College, Penhalonga, Hugh Tracey

Caminingwa

- Teachers Training College, Penhalonga, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Teachers Training College, Penhalonga , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1951
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Goromonze f-rh
  • Language: Shona
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180699 , vital:43603 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR170-12
  • Description: Long ago, there was a widow with one small daughter. Every day the mother used to go out collecting wild vegetables. One day when she came back home she found that several of her corn cobs hanging up in the hut were bare of corn and she asked the child how this had happened. She said 'Mother while you were away a little animal came here, danced and sang and as it danced the mealies fell off their cob onto the ground and he ate them all up! The animal asked her where her father was. She said "My father is dead". "And where is your mother?" "She is out collecting green food." "What kind?" "Watercress and spinach". So the mother said "Tomorrow I will stay at home and see this little animal." The animal came again and did the very same thing and she was astonished at what she saw. Story song, with 2 rattles.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1951

Pi mcinanga

- Teachers Training College, Penhalonga, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Teachers Training College, Penhalonga , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1951
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Goromonze f-rh
  • Language: Shona
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180672 , vital:43600 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR170-09
  • Description: It was a time of famine and the chief had collected a heap of flying ants which were put out to dry on a rock. He ordered the people to look after this precious food. The people told him that a small buck came and took the ants. So the chief went down to see for himself. While he was there the small buck came along and sang to the chief at the rock, eating up the ants as he sang. The people were so delighted and enchanted that they sang the chorus for the buck while he ate up the ants in front of their eyes until all the ants were finished. Story song, with 2 rattles.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1951

Were

- Zaka Shawa, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Zaka Shawa , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1949
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Zaka f-rh
  • Language: Shona
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180372 , vital:43357 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR173-05
  • Description: The Songano Souls (Mashawi) are the guardians of the parental instinct in both men and women. They are said to be the most important of all the souls. They represent the affection for children on the part of both parents. The traditional instrument with which to honour the Masongano souls in this part of panpipes of which there are very few left. The player, a very old man holds the panpipes in one hand and a gourd rattle in the other. This brief recording of less than half a minute's duration may be one of the best echoes of a faith which believed in the virtue of the sound of the panpipes as a devotional exercise. Tune for the Songano Mashawi with Mikwati Wenyere (Pan pipes) and Hosho (rattke).
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1949

Andisaguta (I am not full)

- Zazi with Karanga women, Hugh Tracey

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