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Tlalerwa re Humanega (Improverished by the wild dog)

- Lentswe Male and 20 Kgatla men, Hugh Tracey

Waya waya le Makalatshane (You keep comapny with a rogue)

- Jemina Pheha and 24 women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Jemina Pheha and 24 women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Saulspoort f-sa
  • Language: Tswana/Kgatla
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166029 , vital:41309 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0116-12
  • Description: "You go, you go with a rogue. My son has gone to work for money. The bus is broken. They have broken the bus. The red one with a hole. The bran breaks the spoon. The rogue is Mokgadi Kwekwe. Mmapula is the clan. Mmapula, do not swear at me. I am not your comrade. They give beer according to relationship. Mokgadi is a 'tsotsi', we are surprised." This song is full of topical allusions to local village scandals, and is only to be understood by those acqainted with them. "They give beer according to relationship" implies family favouritism, and friends being left out when the beer goes round. The girl who is keeping comapny with a rogue is not mentioned by name, but is known in the village. Drinking song with netal bucket used as a drum.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Babe kasenankomo (Father has no cattle left)

- Masitela with 2 boys and 3 girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Masitela with 2 boys and 3 girls , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Ewatini Lobamba, Mbabane f-sq
  • Language: Swati
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152330 , vital:39247 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR068-18
  • Description: A "reed ceremony" song, sung for the Mhlanga or reed ceremony. The words of the song imply that father has gone to court over various cases so often that all his cattle have been attacked. The reed ceremony is carried out when the girls of the tribe all go together to the reed beds to cut reeds for the palings of the villages which are a feature of the Swazi Kraals. Mhlanga song for the reed ceremony.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Chisisi zano rine godo

- M. Runesu Gumbo, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: M. Runesu Gumbo , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Karanga (African people) , Folk songs, Shona , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Fort Victoria, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
  • Language: Shona, Karanga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154159 , vital:39615 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR080-06
  • Description: This singer makes up all his accompaniments for his humorous songs and sketches which are in the true line of rombe minstrel material. "Little sister, your idea is a jealous one. I go fetch firewood, you brought back ants. I go to the stream, you brought back dirty water, I go pound, you grind very coarsely, I go to cook, you cook undercooked food, I go to cut, you cut off to much, I go to take relish, you make it all dirty, I go to work in the fields, you go for young men, I go to wash clothes, you remain dirty, Little sister, your idea is a jealous one. Chisisi is taken from the English word 'sister' with the Karanga dimunitive 'chi'. Story song with Mbira.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Londida ("A butterfly", the flighty girl)

- Lamkhwanase Tsemba, 4 girls and group of men from the Queen mother's village, Hugh Tracey

Rungano (The story of the younger brother)

- Farai Takawarasha and Ncube Shoko, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Farai Takawarasha and Ncube Shoko , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Karanga (African people) , Folk songs, Shona , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Chibi District, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
  • Language: Shona, Karanga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154558 , vital:39746 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR082-08
  • Description: There were once two brothers who were both herdboys. The elder incited the younger to fight him. While they were fighting the elder brother tired and the younger brother beat him. So the elder brother ran away leaving the younger brother to bring home the cattle. The younger brother thought that their fight was over, but at midnight when he was already in bed he heard a knock at the door and found his older brother standing there. "What do you want?" "I would like to fight again" he replied. So they set to. Again the elder brother was defeated and during the fight they broke the windows and furniture. Early in the morning the elder brother returned and found the younger brother eating mealies, and the younger brother never suspected that the elder brother was eager to fight the third time. He offered the elder brother some mealies but he said he was still dissatisfied with the result of the fight. So they fought again a third time and again and again for six matches, until the younger brother decided he must leave the villgae for good. So he left his home and that was the end of the story. Rungano story.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Unali mpepara kale wadodoma ndi mfuti

- Tweleve elderly women and two drummers, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Tweleve elderly women and two drummers , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mpatsa, Port Herald f-rh
  • Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155775 , vital:39915 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR087-11
  • Description: "A long time ago there was a man with a gunwho could not shoot and always missed." The failure of this hunter to bring home the meat by continually missing his quarry has been perpetuated in this song although the name of the hunter concerned has long since been forgotten. The two drums were barrel shaped, weighted, and with mirlitons (locallly called Mvema). Chitsukulumwe dance with 2 horizontal double ended barrel drums, rattles and clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Wada pita pana pa Angoni (We have come here to the Angoni district)

- Nyungwe men and women, Hugh Tracey

Abayashi bonse bati bwela (Both parents say 'Come back')

- Jackson Cabala and 3 Bemba boys, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Jackson Cabala and 3 Bemba boys , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Folk songs, Bemba , Topical songs , Africa Zambia Mufulira f-za
  • Language: bemba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/${Handle} , vital:37245 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0023-12
  • Description: All the singers were born in the Mine Compound and were brought up here. Thier chief and almost exclusive musical inspiration therfore, comes from the cinema and African town dance records from Johannesburg
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Chitulu ledu mulomba shinko

- Large group of Kasai women and 6 men, Hugh Tracey

Elesani banyanja kandhu ka doromo (Look at the Nyanja! There is something coming)

- Group of 14 Tonga men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of 14 Tonga men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Songs, Tumbuka , Malawi , Africa Malawi Chinteche f-mw
  • Language: Luvale/Chokwe
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137429 , vital:37523 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR037-13
  • Description: The Malipenga dance of the Tonga and other tribes of north central Nyasaland was originated, they say, in military drill which it imitates. With African genius for converting what is normally a drudgery into a game, these Tonga made barrack square drilling into a form of enjoyable dance, with opportunities for all to shine in the grace of their movements. The instruments of the military band have been substituted by singing horns- with mirliton buzzers- so that anyone who can sing a Tonga tune can equally well participate in the Malipenga band. Short gourds or horns are used for the higher pitched voices and longer for the basses. 2nd and 3rd Movement of the Malipenga dance with bass drum (mine type), pegged, closed, wooden beaters and 1 small cylindrical drum, pegged, closed and wooden beaters.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Imbai tudi benaLulua

- Group of Lulua men and women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of Lulua men and women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Luba-Lulua , Luba (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Kasai f-cg
  • Language: Luba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183942 , vital:44086 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR183-07
  • Description: The low roaring sound towards the end is produced by the lips and cheeks of the women and is not produced in the throat, (as the Xhosa do). The women usually used a gourd when making this sound, holding their mouths into the orifice of the gourd. They appear to blow through their pursed lips first on one side and then on the other, alternately. No gourds were used on this occasion. This item which was recorded at the Wankie Colliery several hundred miles from the district of origin of the performers, appears to have been influenced by foreign mission techniques, especially in the correct iambic stress at the end of lines. Installation of a Chief with clapping
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Kalele kiwetu yamba mwana ambaya

- Large group of Kasai women, Hugh Tracey

Mtshawzo (To dance)

- 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/10962/136142 , vital:37342 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR028-10
  • Description: The women of the Xhosa have special dances of their own, rather static, as might be expected of a people who live in a climate which can be very cold and wet, where most dancing must be done inside the huts to avoid the constant winds from the sea which drive over the downs. (Women dance for dancing at night inside the hut, with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Salime ugamadoda

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

Ubenga lahlinkomo (He lost the cattle)

- Group of Mpondo men and 3 girls, Hugh Tracey

Umdudo (Name)

- Group of Gcaleka women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of Gcaleka women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Folk music , Africa South Africa Idutywa f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/150940 , vital:39019 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR062-02
  • Description: This song was sung on a bright sunny afternoon by 20 Gcaleka women all dressed in their ochre coloured blankets or shawls, sitting on the ground near the cattle kraal. The great open downs of the Transkei rolling away on every side to the mountains in the West and blue Indian ocean to the east. Circumcision song for the Abakweta dance with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Abavuga obugali

- William Semogole (Lyre), Lafairi Morindwa and Yuan Wiswa (lutes), Cristof Sebabi (Drum), Hugh Tracey

Ambila baBemba na baLamba

- Group of Lulua soilders and women, Hugh Tracey

Bana twai musalemba

- Kayoka Ladislas and group of Luba men, Hugh Tracey

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