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Endhala yomusana

- Nasuti Social Club, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Nasuti Social Club , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Soga (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Iganga f-ug
  • Language: Soga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171483 , vital:42065 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR141-12
  • Description: The song refers to the famine of 1943/44. During a famine, they sing, a single woman suffers greatly. So all women should see to it they get married. During this last famine an English man called "Bikapu" gave food to the hungry people. Topical song with Budongo Likembe and Nsaasi flat tin rattle (-12.54-).
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1950

Endhala Yomusana

- Nasuti Social Club, Dhola men and women, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Kiriyo

- Nasuti Social Club, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Nasuti Social Club , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Soga (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Ssaza Chiguru f-ug
  • Language: Soga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171473 , vital:42064 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR141-11
  • Description: The singer is singing about his oen clan and what has happened to its various members. A tune under the same name "Kiriyo" is played by 6 men on an ensemble of Budongo Likembe at Jinja, and was recorded at Jinja earlier in the same month. Topical song with Budongo Likembe and Nsaasi flat tin rattle (-12.54-).
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1950

Mudondo

- Nasuti Social Club, Tracey, Hugh

N Bangaire

- Nasuti Social Club, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Omukazi omugumba lubala

- Nasuti Social Club, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Nasuti Social Club , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Soga (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Iganga f-ug
  • Language: Soga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171428 , vital:42059 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR141-06
  • Description: "The barren woman is not easy to keep as a wife as she only wastes your money." A very commonly expressed idea in Africa. Sets of these instruments are played by a number of young men together. For over 400 years this type of music has facinated Africans and possibly for far longer. Topical song, with 8 Budongo Likembe and 1 flat Nsaasi tin rattle (12.54-)
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1950

Waikova

- Nasuti Social Club, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Nasuti Social Club , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Soga (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Iganga f-ug
  • Language: Soga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171438 , vital:42060 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR141-07
  • Description: Waikova is a beautiful and highly coloured bird, they explained, but is more likely to be the common crow. A Budongo tune of this name was also recorded at Jinja, two years later. Sets of these instruments are played by a number of young men together. For over 400 years this type of music has facinated Africans and possibly for far longer. Topical song, with 8 Budongo Likembe and 1 flat Nsaasi tin rattle (12.54-)
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1950
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