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Chikangaide (The bird)

- Young police, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Young police , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Ngoni (African people) , Arts, Malawi , Folk music , Africa Malawi Poilce Headquaters, Zomba, Ncheu District, Central Nyasaland f-mw
  • Language: Ngoni
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154956 , vital:39797 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR084-17
  • Description: Once there were some children who took their mother's clothes and gave them to a bird, and the bird started singing and said, "The children were playing and took their mother's clothes and gave them to me knowing nothing because I am only a bird from the bush." The father came and waited for the bird to kill it, but hearing the bird singing so prettily he forgot his anger and in fact went anf gave the bird still more clothes. This is a variation of the old theme of the enchantment of music. It perhaps does not indicate an aeshetic pleasure in the natural song of the blind but rather in the words of the song which it is supposed to have sung. Nthano story song with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Etso ga ke batle e ejwa (I don't want to give my cow)

- Group of Lete men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of Lete men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Ramoutsa f-sa
  • Language: Tswana/Lete
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165317 , vital:41232 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0112-04
  • Description: "This dark cow of mine must not be given for lobola because it belongs to the rain. It cannot be given to cowards." This refers to the old custom of sacrificing a dark-coloured or black beast for the rain ceremony. It is sung when the bride-price has been to the girl's parents. At the end of the song one of the men declaims a praise, Maboko, for the grandfather of the present Chief - Chief Ikaneng who died about 1896. Engagement song.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Lako (Lako, place name)

- Mokemane Mokemane and group of men, Hugh Tracey

Maeba Masimong (Pigeons in the fields)

- Molatsi Raseile and group of menn, Hugh Tracey

Ndapanda kobidi ndini (I discovered the pain myslef)

- Kaiya Maritenzi and Ngoni men and women, Hugh Tracey

Zakeyo mwana binzi (Before she is old enough)

- Young girls and four drummers, Hugh Tracey

"Luwalo-o-iuwale." (Start, o start the song)

- Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Composer not specified , 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/10962/134304 , vital:37118 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0019-03
  • Description: "What are we doing? The White men have come. Their tents are over there beyond the Chiwombo river." This was first sung long ago, they say, when the Whites first came to their country about 1900, or a little earlier.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Amalume kuwayawa

- Group of Nsenga women, Hugh Tracey

Iduma lya gebuza (The gash-the cut)

- Boys of Kalana Location, Hugh Tracey

Inkuntse

- Group of young boys and girls, Hugh Tracey

Kuma pumaingwe kuma

- Group of Tonga women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of Tonga 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/10962/138625 , vital:37657 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR045-04
  • Description: The drummers first went away, gathered some swathes of grass in order to make a fire to heat drum membranes before playing and to bring them up to pitch. The wooden pegs were also hammered firmly into place to increase the tension on the drum heads. Masabe dance with 2 drums, hand beaten, pegged, 1 goblet (-14.5101-), 1 cylindrical.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Mbaya mwana wane bamutya cimbwe (Mbaya, my child, is called a hyena)

- Ruben Tankadi Mbuluwundi and group of 5 Tumbuka men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Ruben Tankadi Mbuluwundi and group of 5 Tumbuka men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Malawi , Tumbuka (African people)--Music , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Rumpi f-mw
  • Language: Tumbuka
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/140216 , vital:37849 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR054-06
  • Description: A man who was working away from home on the Copper Mines, had a girl sent to him to marry from his own village. But when she arrived she was so ugly he said: "Marry you, never! You look like a hyena!" So the girl went back and told her mother who rushed out of the house shouting to her husband in great hanger: "My child Mbaya has been called a hyena!" From what the Welfare officers say, it appears that this situation is a common experience on the Copperbelt where girls are frequently sent by their parents to get themselves married to their absent young men on the mines, with the same painful rebuff if not acceptable. Humorous song.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Nkhendannga uteka ukwenka zeza (I was walking and found the grass moving)

- Ruben Tankadi Mbuluwundi and group of 5 Tumbuka men, Hugh Tracey

Sekelele tawona tengwa ipya

- Composer not specified, Group of Tumbuka men (Performers), Hugh Tracey

Tsholoza

- Group of Xhosa/Gcaleka women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of Xhosa/Gcaleka women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Willowvale f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136151 , vital:37343 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR028-11
  • Description: This song is sung, they said, by the women for the boys to dance at night. Women's dance for clapping at night iside the hut, with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Tulele mam'we we u chiku chimbundu (We sleep here / The night mist)

- Kalemba and large group of Lunda women, Hugh Tracey

Indhllamu igugulami

- Performer not specified, Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey

Dyibwe dyambule kabanda

- Kayoka Ladislaus, with Kapungo Isidore and Beya Marcel (Likembe players), Hugh Tracey

Egbi (Death)

- Abangba men and women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Abangba men and women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Bangba (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Watsa f-cg
  • Language: Bangba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166400 , vital:41359 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0118-01
  • Description: Contemplation of death, its inevitability, and its constant appearance, is an important subject in many African folk songs. The apparent joie de vivre displayed at the feast and dance after a funeral is strange to foreign ideas but typical of Africa. Egba funeral dances with Gudu-gudu slit drums, N'dima conical laced drums.
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  • Date Issued: 1952

Kabamba mucheso

- Kabundji Nioka and Senga Louis with Songe, Hugh Tracey

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