Mayeyelele mina kazula
- Authors: Malindisa, Josefa , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1958-03-31
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Eswatini Havelock mine f-sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/249735 , vital:51861 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT568-M20 , Research no. M2G3
- Description: A personal lament about a personal tragedy accompanied by the concertina.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958-03-31
Mayeyelele mina kazula (I am lonely - I am an orphan)
- Authors: Josefa Malindisa , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Eswatini Bremersdorp f-sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152786 , vital:39342 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR072-07
- Description: "The Zionists laughed at me because my mother died." There are many such laments as this composed by African men and women who help to resolve their personal tragedies by singing about them in public. Personal lament with concertina.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Karnigetu ya shiHlengwe
- Authors: Machokole, Josa , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-08-16
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Messina f-sa
- Language: Tswa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/246520 , vital:51484 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT542-L163 , Research no. L3M4
- Description: A song from an ngomo or story accompanied by mbira dza waNdau.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-08-16
Karnigetu ya shiHlengwe
- Authors: Machokole, Josa , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-08-16
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Messina f-sa
- Language: Tswa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/246511 , vital:51483 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT542-L163 , Research no. L3M4
- Description: A dance song accompanied by an mbira dza waNdau.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-08-16
Wakanaka acha nyengwa
- Authors: Machokole, Josa , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-08-16
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Messina f-sa
- Language: Ndau
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/246525 , vital:51485 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT542-L163 , Research no. L3M5
- Description: A love song accompanied by mbira dza waNdau and bell.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-08-16
Cheyu chamunganda
- Authors: Group of Tumbuka men , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-07-19
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Bancroft mine f-za
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/242352 , vital:51032 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT507-L129 , Research no. L2Y13
- Description: A song, accompanied by clapping, about sweeping the house, that is sung as a walking song n the way to some festivity.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-07-19
Kamudyanga
- Authors: Mbuluwundi, Ruben Tankadi , 5 Tumbuka men , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-07-08
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Mufulira f-za
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/239758 , vital:50763 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT478-L99 , Research no. L2O17
- Description: Unaccompanied humorous song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-07-08
Ndoba bieena wisi Mbozi
- Authors: Group of Tonga women , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-06-22
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Chipepo f-za
- Language: Tonga (Zambia)
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/231870 , vital:49935 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT450-L71 , Research no. L2D2
- Description: Indigenous folk song for womens' post-funeral dance, with unaccompanied singing.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-06-22
Le mantyi ikhoyo igweba kanzima
- Authors: Young men and boys of Peddie , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-05-06
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Peddie f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/228131 , vital:49524 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT392-L13 , Research no. L1G6
- Description: Indigenous folk fighting song for boys, with singing and clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-05-06
Itileni
- Authors: Group of Xhosa "amakwenkwe" young men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Africa South Africa Kentani f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/149134 , vital:38807 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR059-01
- Description: "You can look down on the train that goes from Mazeppa to Natal." Sung by boys on their way to the Mtshosho dance. The lilt is very infectious. "Amakwenkwe", young men, are under the approximate age 18-20 years. They are so called before they have been initiated and achieved full manhood. A walking song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Jabeni
- Authors: Group of Tonga men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138581 , vital:37652 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR044-09
- Description: The dancers came out in pairs and danced together for a while, going round the ring of dancers for a few steps, then giving place to another group. Mankuntu dance song for young folk with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Kamudyanga
- Authors: R. T. Mbuluwundi (Composer) , Ruben Tankadi Mbuluwundi and group of 5 Tumbuka men (Performers) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Humorous songs , Songs, Tumbuka , Africa Malawi Rumpi f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134037 , vital:37063 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR017-03
- Description: A man asked his wife for some monkey nuts and she refused to give them to him. One day he hid himself and found the pot where she kept them and ate them all. Whe she discovered this, she reproached him and said: "Why didn't you ask me, I would have given them to you." "Ah, said the man, but when I asked you the first time you refused."
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Mishiba
- Authors: Group of 16 Bena Budia men , 16 Bena Budia men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Ensemble playing , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Katanga f-cg
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135567 , vital:37276 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR025-01
- Description: This group were Bena Budia, a group allied to the Bekalehwe, who belong to the linguistic group of Luba/Songe. The ensemble of end-blown flutes consisted of three pitches, treble, tenor and bass, the middle register having several players holding a raft of 2 to 6 pipes and the bass and treble having 2 each only. Pipe ensemble with 2 weighted goblet drums, closed, hand beaten, and 16 sets of panpipes.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Esendeyo
- Authors: Societe Jeunesse , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1952-09-02
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Not specified f-cg
- Language: Bangala
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/222496 , vital:48874 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT323-F121 , Research no. F4W12
- Description: A party song accompanied by drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952-09-02
Hahirwa Nyiramibambwe
- Authors: Mirimba, Francois , Niyondorera, Joseph , Gakombe, Gakombe , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1952-07-08
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Rwanda Nyanza f-rw
- Language: Kinyarwanda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/217569 , vital:48298 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT309-F81 , Research no. F3U7
- Description: Indigenous folk song of praise, with unaccompanied singing.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952-07-08
Banyalo babande
- Authors: Group of Barambo soldiers and women , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1952-02-06
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of the Congo Lubumbashi f-cg
- Language: Luba-Lulua
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/215466 , vital:48062 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT277-F33 , Research no. F1V6
- Description: Dance song with 3 Likembe mbira and rattle accompaniment.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952-02-06
Seyo
- Authors: Group of Luba Soldiers , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1952-02-06
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of the Congo Lubumbashi f-cg
- Language: Luba-Lulua
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/215488 , vital:48064 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT277-F33 , Research no. F1V7
- Description: Kalinda dance song with drum, bottle and sticks accompaniment.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952-02-06
Masayi
- Authors: Group of Luba men and women , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1952-01-19
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Kipushi f-cg
- Language: Chokwe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/215023 , vital:48012 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT273-F23 , Research no. F1P5
- Description: Not specified.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952-01-19
Chihibalumuna bembi
- Authors: Louis Mulowa and Lunda men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Ruund (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Mwinilunga f-za
- Language: Lunda , Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183004 , vital:43902 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR179-16
- Description: "A man who wears a waistcoat without a jacket looks a perfect fool." The most trivial remarks are quite enough to suggest a good dance tune. The lower notes of this Chisanzhi were tuned with wax attached to the underside of the tips of the reeds. Sikinta dances with Chizanzhi Mbira and gourd.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Masaji
- Authors: Chokwe men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Chokwe , Chokwe (African people) , Luvale (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Angola Dilolo f-ao
- Language: Chokwe , Luvale
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183327 , vital:43966 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR180-04
- Description: The Chianda dance is probably danced at wakes and funerals. A good example of Chokwe organum singing-that is, singing in paralel. Two Chianda dances with, 2 open conical drums, pegged 1 closed goblet drum
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952