Drum Rhythms
- Authors: Samuiri Oduonga and Chopi men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk songs, Chopi , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Kigumba f-ug
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169210 , vital:41697 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0130-02
- Description: The bells on the ankles of one drummer can be heard though he was not dancing. The names of the two drums are: Timbo (the larger) and Pere (the smaller). Kyopere drum rhythms. Two long stem Goblet drums, open, pegged, with python skin membranes.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Nyakawo miya Kataiga (Give me Kataiga cloth)
- Authors: Samuiri Oduonga and Chopi men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk songs, Chopi , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Kigumba f-ug
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169201 , vital:41696 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0130-01
- Description: A certain boy loved a girl and gave her a present of Kataiga print cloth. He changed his mind but his girl asked him not to take his cloth back. He agreed and left her the cloth as a souvenir. Kyopere dance song for men and women. With two long stem goblet drums, open and pinned, with python skin membrane.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
O’Winyi Tito obeyobo lobo
- Authors: Samuiri Oduonga and Chopi men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk songs, Chopi , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Kigumba f-ug
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169219 , vital:41698 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0130-03
- Description: The men sing the words while the women yodell. The burden of the song is that the Mukama (Tito Gafubusa Winyi II. C.B.E. paramount chief of Bunyoro) makes good laws. He had made a law to stop women from leaving the country in order to become prostituties eleswhere. "At home! ah, that is another matter", they said in answer to a question. Praise song for the Mukama.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950