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Igumira obuyatabara Ruanda

- Samuiri Rwakifunzi and Nkole men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Samuiri Rwakifunzi and Nkole men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Nyankole (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Bushenyi f-ug
  • Language: Nyoro , Nyankole
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170083 , vital:41855 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0134-13
  • Description: Igumira was a local chief who used to go over into Rwanda and raid tribes there, the Tutsi and the Hutu. The song is now used for dancing the Ekitagururo dance in which mena nd women do a simple rhythmic shuffle with rattles attached to their calves. The rattles are flat containers made of stout grasses inside which wild canna seeds are thrown to and fro. They are held flat between the palms while the fingers may tap the lower side to enhance the main pulses or to syncopate the rhythm. Ekitagururo dance song, with conical drums, laced, single, played with sticks, and three earthenware pots and raft rattles.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Igumira obuyatabara Ruanda

- Samuiri Rwakifunzi and Nkole men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Samuiri Rwakifunzi and Nkole men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Nyankole (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Bushenyi f-ug
  • Language: Nyoro , Nyankole
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170074 , vital:41856 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0134-13
  • Description: Igumira was a local chief who used to go over into Rwanda and raid tribes there, the Tutsi and the Hutu. The song is now used for dancing the Ekitagururo dance in which mena nd women do a simple rhythmic shuffle with rattles attached to their calves. The rattles are flat containers made of stout grasses inside which wild canna seeds are thrown to and fro. They are held flat between the palms while the fingers may tap the lower side to enhance the main pulses or to syncopate the rhythm. Ekitagururo dance song, with conical drums, laced, single, played with sticks, and three earthenware pots and raft rattles.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Igumira obuyatabara Ruanda

- Samuiri Rwakifunzi, Nkole men, Folk, Tracey, Hugh

Ikulangamilaga kwilunde

- Mikengemalo Chaba with Sukuma men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Mikengemalo Chaba with Sukuma men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Nyamwezi (African people) , Sukuma (African people) , Folk songs, Sukuma , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Mwadui f-tz
  • Language: Nyamwezi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173331 , vital:42357 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR150-09
  • Description: "The red necked cock looked up to the sky." The cutting of cicatrices on the face is accompanied by songs such as these, and by festivities and dancing. There is a local breed of fowls which have no feathers on their necks and very red skin. The song refers to a certain diviner who used to smear his face and neck with red earth. The people of the village can be heard chatting and laughing during the song, and a bird can be heard in the background of the second song. Ucheyeki song for cutting cicatrices.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Ikulangamilaga kwilunde

- Mikengemalo Chaba with Sukuma men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Mikengemalo Chaba with Sukuma men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Nyamwezi (African people) , Sukuma (African people) , Folk songs, Sukuma , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Mwadui f-tz
  • Language: Nyamwezi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173318 , vital:42359 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR150-09
  • Description: "The red necked cock looked up to the sky." The cutting of cicatrices on the face is accompanied by songs such as these, and by festivities and dancing. There is a local breed of fowls which have no feathers on their necks and very red skin. The song refers to a certain diviner who used to smear his face and neck with red earth. The people of the village can be heard chatting and laughing during the song, and a bird can be heard in the background of the second song. Ucheyeki song for cutting cicatrices.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Ikulanzamilaga kwilunde

- Mikengemalo, Chaba, Sukumu men, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Ikulanzamilaga Kwilunde

- Mikengemalo, Chaba, Sukumu men, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Kaitana

- Abdalla Feze Ibraim, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Kaitana

- Abdalla Feza Ibraim, Hugh Tracey

Malaya

- Chewa young men, performer not specified, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Malaya

- Phiri, Witimani, Tracey, Hugh

Malaya

- Young Chewa men, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Mauko

- Charles Wanga with Wanga men, Hugh Tracey

Mutitira

- Ruhume Akiki, S., Toro men of Toro District, composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Mutitira

- S. Ruhume Akiki, Toro men, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Mutitira (Happiness)

- S. Ruhume, Akiki with Toro men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: S. Ruhume, Akiki with Toro men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Nyankole (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Bukuku f-ug
  • Language: Nyoro , Nyankole
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170373 , vital:41914 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0136-01
  • Description: "The bird has seen its friend, that is why it is happy." This means that the host at the party is happy with his friends. The Mateguru dance is frequently performed at drinking parties. The song makes a very jolly round. Mateguru dance song for men and women with Emugudu cylindrical drum, footed, pegged, one conical drum laced, single, played with hands.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Ndilamdile kalata kwa Masula

- Falesi Phiri, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Ndilandile kalata kwa Masula

- Falesi Phiri, Chewa women and girls, Tracey, Hugh

Nkanga zikulima

- Nyakwela, Gogo men and women, composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Nkanga Zikulima

- Nyakwela, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

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