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Ndyeye tuende

Nomaposi

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Siyanimema bakiti

U Regina wendile

Mocholoko (The novice)

  • Authors: Mokoto Tsoeliane and group of Koali men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Berea f-lo
  • Language: Sotho
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/161177 , vital:40599 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0102-03
  • Description: The Mohobelo dance is most typical of all Sotho dances and is notable for its sinous striding actions which are accompanied by rhythmic hissing and by stamping. The dance songs are performed by the spectators and not the dancers. There are frequently two or three movements or routines in a Mohobelo, a slow entry and dance, follwed by a fast leaping movement and frequently by a third slow routine. Each is given a local mane, often the name of the district of origin. Mohobelo men's dance with stamping.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Sekupu ! (Drums)

  • Authors: Lesole Motsoari, 3 diviners and a group of women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Berea f-lo
  • Language: Sotho
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/161028 , vital:40583 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0101-05
  • Description: The leader shook his shoulders and body during the song, which movement can be heard in his voice. "Drums!" "At Sione they caught a baboon with long hair Maupha's anger! It is father - boy - (untranslatable). Their anger!. It is father 'Manyetse' (long hair). I am the baby boy." Chorus "Siyavuma." The speaker ends each line with the word "Khanya" (light). The frame drum had crossed wires at the back which were used to hold the drum in the left hand. Both drums were of metal and the usual membrane, they say, is either cow or horse hide. Mathuela, diviner's dance song, with small drum (-14.03-), frame drum (-14.92-) and clapping (-12.03-).
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Waroiya mwana

Waroya mwana (The bewitched child)

Kalele ki wetu yamba mwana ambaya

Mudima zenzele

Mudima zenzele

Kalombo

Wa sara ndeka wuranda ukuwawa

  • Authors: Marangi, L , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1957-07-17
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kitwe f-za
  • Language: Nyakyusa-Ngonde
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/242059 , vital:50997 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT502-L124 , Research no. L2W14
  • Description: A drum is a large aluminium pot turned upside down and beaten by sticks.
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  • Date Issued: 1957-07-17

Chitima wajumbo

Eco bale mukanina bamayo

Muzemu

  • Authors: Balizi ba Milopa , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1957-06-18
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Livingstone f-za
  • Language: Tonga (Zambia)
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/231787 , vital:49926 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT449-L70 , Research no. L2C1
  • Description: Indigenous folk instrumental for the 'Muzemu dance', with 3 milupa conical drums; a sikumwa, an omutuma and a kajakiri, mulai rattles, a namalwa friction drum, and a silimba xylophone.
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  • Date Issued: 1957-06-18

Chinjilile Mwalyanjo

Kwimbo layetu nqwe tulinqa

  • Authors: Group of Lozi men , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1957-05-17
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Wankie Colliery f-rh
  • Language: Lozi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/230644 , vital:49801 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT442-L63 , Research no. L2A15
  • Description: Indigenous folk song for the 'Siyomboka dance', with singing accompanied by three pegged, conical milupa drums, one 12 note xylophone on a stand, and intermittent whistling.
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  • Date Issued: 1957-05-17
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