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Nkunte njinga Andre Ciku (Andrew Ciku urged us to pedal fast on our bicycles)

- M. Sashi and group of Lumbo men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: M. Sashi and group of Lumbo men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Zambia , Field recordings , Folk songs, Bemba , Bemba (African people) , Africa Zambia Mufulira mine f-za
  • Language: Bemba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151743 , vital:39166 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR065-09
  • Description: "Andrwew Ciku urged us to pedal hard. We wanted to cross the Luwongo river to get to the copperbelt, but on the way we broke down, to our regret!" This type of parallel singing is called "Kalela" and is commonly used, they say, for topical songs. These boys were actually singing in a mixture of Bemba and Aushi. Topical song
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Nkurira nyama (I cry for meat)

- J. M. C. Chimpandando, Hugh Tracey

No doli wami

- The Blues Notes, Composer not specified, Dargie, Dave

No doli wami (The doll)

- Olive Alexander, Russel Planga, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Olive Alexander , Russel Planga , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Grahamstown f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136006 , vital:37326 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR027-12
  • Description: Same soloist. A certain man made love to a girl, in secret, after which she jilted him. So he told her that he would now have to tell the people that is was she who had agreed and accepted his love-making. Topical song with dance band.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

No talili

- Young men of Tuku's Location, Hugh Tracey

Nokala (The crab)

- Khotso and Mpondo men and women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Khotso and Mpondo men and women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Lusikisiki f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136515 , vital:37386 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR031-09
  • Description: The women in this group all wore green cotton dresses and green head cloths. They had strands of beads round their necks worked in stripes of green, yellow, white and blue. Khotso said he had taken this colour scheme from the Vierkleur. The men, in addition to this, wore a lavish number of strings of "lucky beans" or seeds, of a pearl-grey colour. These are exclusively worn by the Izangoma. Divination song with clapping and 5 drums.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Nomba tamuli beni mu shalo (There are no strangers in this world)

- Members of the christian Mission to Many lands, E. Chiyanta, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Members of the christian Mission to Many lands , E. Chiyanta , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Hymns, Bemba , Africa Zambia Chingola f-za
  • Language: bemba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135412 , vital:37266 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0024-09
  • Description: Hymn No. 89 in ms. Hymn book, based on Ephesians, chap II. Verses 19-20. Original Separatist Hymns.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Nombindlela (A roadmaker)

- Group of Gcaleka women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of Gcaleka women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Folk music , Africa South Africa Willowvale f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151246 , vital:39043 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR063-12
  • Description: The "raodmaker" refers to a man labouring on the local roads. During this song the 16 months old child on the back of one of the singers was clapping its small hands in time to the rhythms of the song which shows how soon small Africans begin to pick up their African music. Women's dance, with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Nongangela (All the young men from Timgqimqi's location are alike)

- Sam Tyutwana, Hugh Tracey

Nongelema Mufana Obetele (Nongelema, the best young man)

- Group of Xhosa men and women, Hugh Tracey

Nonkala (The crab)

- Jury Mpelho, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Jury Mpelho , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Grahamstown f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135934 , vital:37314 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR027-06
  • Description: The crab, being a water animal, is this case, a river crab, is being addressed as a diviner. The Xhosa believe their ancestral spirits inhabit streams. Topical song with dance band including saxaphone, double bass, guitar and drum
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Nonkala = The crab

- Mpelho, Jury, The Jury Mpelho Band, Composer not specified, Dargie, Dave

Nontsokolo

- Group of young Xhosa men and boys, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of young Xhosa men and boys , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Africa South Africa Kentani f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/150698 , vital:38998 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR060-16
  • Description: We were told that this group of Xhosa lads were from Christian homes. The tune is connected to the same dance for young boys and girls between the ages of about 12-17 years. It is a typical song the group of young people use on their way to the home where the party is to take place. The dance itself takes place in a hut. Mbayizelo dance song, with harmonica.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Nonyanya

- Group of married women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of married women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Africa South Africa Kentani f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/150012 , vital:38930 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR059-17
  • Description: A diviner arrived in person but declined to sing with the women who were all sitting around on the floor of the hut, about 80 of them. The married women were more soberly dressed than the young unmarried ones and wore their headclothes in the more usual Xhosa 'pile' of cloth on the head, producing a large loose turban-like effect. Diviner's song, with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Nsanguke Pungwa Maiswetu Nsanguke (I can change myself into a hawk)

- Shewess Mwali and group of Bemba men, Hugh Tracey

Ntende

- Large group of Lunda women and Kalemba, Performer not specified, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Ntende

- Large group of Lunda women and Kalemba, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Large group of Lunda women and Kalemba , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Southern Lunda (African people) , Folk music , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo Democratic Republic Kabinda f-cg
  • Language: Lunda
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139481 , vital:37742 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR048-08
  • Description: The larger drum was also tapped on the side by a stick. The clapping was done with cupped hands. The Chief de Centre Kapenda, was the head of this group. Jadotville is the headquaters of the central region of the Union Miniere, the other 2 towns being Elizabethville in the East and Kolwezi in the West. It was originally famous for the fact that one of the mines, Shinkolobwe, was the first place in the world from which the famous Curie family obtained the radium for their experiments. At Panda, there is a museum of mineral crystals discovered in the Katanga mines. Kawidi dance with 2 goblet drums, pinned, weighted, with mirlitons, hand beaten.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Nteta ya nkosi (Chief's speech)

- Headman Bennett Baleni, Hugh Tracey

Ntsikana's Great Hymn

- Xhosa ladies from near Peddie, Composer not specified, Dargie, Dave

Ntsikana's Great Hymn

- Xhosa ladies from near Peddie, Composer not specified, Dargie, Dave

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