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Zigazikaragwe

Lala drum rhythms

Lithoko

Mampenenga drum rhythms

  • Authors: 3 Nyakyusa drummers with Nyakyusa women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Arts, Malawi , Field recordings , Nyakyusa (African people)--Music , Ngonde (African people)--music , Drum--Performance , Africa Malawi Tukuyu f-mw
  • Language: Nyakyusa-Ngonde
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151819 , vital:39176 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR066-01
  • Description: The Mampenenga is danced in silence to the accompaniment of the drums. The dancers, all men wore long Swahili "Kikoye" or skirts. The bass drummer uses one of his sticks as a pressure stick occassionally to raise the note on the membrane. The dance is a form of slow graceful prancing with much bending of the kness and swinging, raising and lowering of fly-whisks in the right hand. Mampenenga and Kalulu dance with 1 conical drum, laced, 2 cylindrical laced drums with wooden beaters.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

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Luimbo lwa mitambo y domba

Wa Mambo

  • Authors: o Feliciano, Muntano Gomez (Performer) , Gomez, F , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1955
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Topical song , Guitar music , Africa Mozambique Chibuto, Sul do Save f-mz
  • Language: Ndau
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/132010 , vital:36785 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR003-07 , Field card no. H1P-25
  • Description: "Chief, chief, what does the great 'Lion' require? This item is typical of so many African songs in which the courtesies due to chiefs and important people in a local community are referred to in terms of extravagant adulation which hold little meaning for those outside the immediate social circle involved. One of three topical songs with guitar.
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  • Date Issued: 1955

Wa mambo

Wa Mambo

Title not specified

Introduction to Aku dewile nu wakate pwana dewile

  • Authors: Zande men , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1952-07-15
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of the Congo Buta f-cg
  • Language: Kinyarwanda
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/214856 , vital:47994 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT270-F2 , Research no. MOA7 SIDE B NO.5
  • Description: Mongonika dance with Kponingbo xylophone, 11 loose notes on 2 banana stalks and hand bells and drum accompaniment.
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  • Date Issued: 1952-07-15

Jimbo ya Ebogoma

Aku dewile nu wakate pwana dewile

  • Authors: Zande men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Zande , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Buta f-cg
  • Language: Zande/Bandiya
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/167822 , vital:41513 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0123-05
  • Description: The music for the Zande round dance. All the dancers perform the same steps in unison, short quick steps to and fro, turning into file and then facing inwards again, gradually moving around in an anti-clockwise direction. The enthusiasm of the Zande men and women for their Kponingbo xylophone dance has to be experienced to be fully appreciated. The dancers are caught in the swirl of the music and compel sympathetic action from everyone within earshot. The tuning of the xylophone was:- 976, 880, 784, 672, 584, 488, 440, 392, 336, 292, 244 vs. Zande dance with Kponingbo xylophone, 11 loose notes on 2 banana stalks, and hand bells.
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  • Date Issued: 1952

Bandiya Yo

Bandiya yo

  • Authors: Nakule ,and two other players and dancers , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Zande , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Nguru f-cg
  • Language: Zande/Bandiya
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/167803 , vital:41511 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0123-03
  • Description: These loose note xylophones are played by three ad sometimes four men sitting on either side of the instrument. The Zande dance is performed in a circle to the cheerful sound of the xylophone. All the dancers move in union with small steps in a set pattern which ensures that the circle moves around gradually in an anti-clockwise direction. A characteristic gesture by Zande dancers is the holding out of the hands, palms upwards gently raising and lowering the forearms in time with the music. Zande dance with Kponingbo xylophone.
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  • Date Issued: 1952

Djigida

Muzamaelo wa Mahule

Muzamaelo wa mahule

Muzamelo wa Mahule

Odjea

  • Authors: Njenje and Medje tipoyi carriers , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Mangbetu , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Medje f-cg
  • Language: Mangbetu
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166788 , vital:41404 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0120-05
  • Description: "Come quickly father, we are fighting with a leopard." Any subject can be the theme for a sedan chair song. The four carriers walk in file, each pair lifting the chair by means of a yoke, before and after, with the chair itself in between. Relief carriers walk in front and behind. Work song with basket rattle.
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  • Date Issued: 1952
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