Bankulu ne yumba
- Authors: Group of 7 Luba men and 1 woman , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Luba-Lulua , Luba (African people) , Cultural anthropology , Luba-Lulua language , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Kabongo f-cg
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137840 , vital:37565 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR039-13
- Description: The singers make use of organum in their harmonies. The two drums are complimentary to each other with quite distinctive tones, the one having a clear hollow tone and the other a buzzing tone. Fwila dance song with 1 smaill goblet drum, closed, pinned, hand beaten, and 1 box drum, hand beaten and tapped on side.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
E-ye-ye alawombi tombi (I have lost my hair-do)
- Authors: Group of 8 Lunda men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Southern Lunda (African people) , Folk music , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Mwinilungu f-za
- Language: Lunda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139328 , vital:37727 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0047-11
- Description: The girls of this tribe plait their hair and draw it out into a wedge or mat on the top of the head. It is the loss of this bunch of hair to which this song refers. Topical song with struck metal.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Kwaile Muhiana ni yema (I will go where Muhiana has gone)
- Authors: Alexander Muhiana and Griffis Kopo , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Lozi (African people) , Africa Zimbabwe Wankie Coillery f-rh
- Language: Lozi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152107 , vital:39213 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR067-14
- Description: It is supposed to be a girl singing. Muhiana is the name of the girls' lover. Tuning of the instrument:- 552, 512, 448, 420, 376, 348, 308, 276 vs. Self-delectative song with Kangombio mbira.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Munendo na munendo (Christian travellers)
- Authors: Members of the christian Mission to Many lands , 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/10962/135370 , vital:37262 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0024-07
- Description: This hymn appears to be based on the old hymn tune-"Shouting out the battle-cry freedom. 2 separate Hymns.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Mwemfwiti
- Authors: Gruop of lala men and 1 woman , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Africa Zambia Serenje f-za
- Language: Lala
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134358 , vital:37132 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0019-09
- Description: "We know you, never mind, you wizards." The song, they say, is sung one week after burial. The stick is tapped onto the barrel of the drum. Obsequies after burial, with 1 conical drum, I stick and clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957