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Izibongo zika Mswati

Mantentemezana

Yenabo Thoko

Izibongo zika mswati

Kamango (Drum tattoo for ceremonial of Chief)

  • Authors: Lamon Mikolosi Tengani , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mpatsa, Port Herald f-rh
  • Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155676 , vital:39904 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR087-01
  • Description: The Kamango drum is the Chief's drum and is used when a new chief is declared. It is used exclusively for the chief. There is nothing to tell the uninitiated that it was a special drum as it is of the usual shape, if slightly larger than most. The drum was 4.3 inches tall and 17 inches across the head, goblet shaped. Footed Kamango Drum.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Mantentemezana (Herd boys' rain song)

  • Authors: Group of small boys , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Ewatini Lobamba, Mbabane f-sq
  • Language: Swati
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152184 , vital:39231 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR068-02
  • Description: This song is a well known and recited by herd boys on seeing small clouds appear in the sky calling the clouds to collect and drop their rain for the cattle they are herding. Alternately for the clouds to spread out and allow the sun to shine again. Herd boy's rain song
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Yenabo Thoko (Hello, mother of Thoko)

Sampala sampala

Tshikanda at Lukau

Kha i shangane

Mambelewa

No bona maninga sarilisa

No bona maninga sarilisa

Nwana wavho ndi ndenzha

Potilo and ndo bva na tshidongo

Thathatha tsini

Tshamphephenene

Tshihwilili tshanga

Introduction to Akontaiba

  • Authors: Tracey, Hugh , Composer unknown
  • Date: 1953-20-04
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Johannesburg f-sa
  • Language: English
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/216006 , vital:48122 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT286-F46-MOA8 TRACK6a , Research no. D5Y28
  • Description: Spoken introduction.
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  • Date Issued: 1953-20-04

Call to war

  • Authors: Drummers of Chief Mongika , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Mangbetu , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Gombari f-cg
  • Language: Mangbetu
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169075 , vital:41681 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0129-02
  • Description: Away from the Congo river itself it appears that the art of sending drum messages deteriorates into the sendng of signals only, the former being based upon the tonality of the individual words comprising the sentences transmitted, the latter comprising pre-set phrases and rhythms to which certain significance is attached. The signals may have risen from messages in the past but the skill of 'talking' on the drums has almost if not entirely vanished among the Mangbele. The significance ofthe 'Tamatsaro' signal was not explained. Drum rhythms or signals with 2 slit drums, 2 large pod shaped slit drums, 2 long cyclindrical drums.
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  • Date Issued: 1952
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