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Ngqika

  • Authors: Cape inkspots of Grahamstown , Mpelho, Jury , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1957-04-29
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Grahamstown f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/227491 , vital:49453 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT383-L4 , Research no. L1C1
  • Description: A song for a town dance about the beautiful the cattle of Ngqika were accompanied by piano, saxophone, trumpet, guitar and drums.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957-04-29

Ata pikure katenge (You will turn the mortar)

Chapache

Chapache

  • Authors: Jean Kota and group of Lunda women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Southern Lunda (African people) , Folk music , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo Democratic Republic Kabinda f-cg
  • Language: Lunda
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139546 , vital:37749 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR048-14
  • Description: Both the drum and the hands beat out the usual double beat, with the stick providing the simple syncopation of 3 beats and a double beat followed by 2 beats and a double, so commonly found throughout Southern Congo, regardless of the measure of the song. The song ends with the leader calling out to the singers "Manyoka" to which they answer with a set phrase which sounds like: "A pinda akwezhi." Party song with clapping and small goblet drum tapped on the side as well as beaten (14.52251-).
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Impazamo (A mistake)

Kalombo (Thank you)

  • Authors: Large group of Lunda women and Kalemba , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Southern Lunda (African people) , Folk music , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo Democratic Republic Kabinda f-cg
  • Language: Lunda
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139490 , vital:37743 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR048-09
  • Description: The larger drum was also tapped on the side by a stick. The clapping was done with cupped hands. The Chief de Centre Kapenda, was the head of this group. Jadotville is the headquaters of the central region of the Union Miniere, the other 2 towns being Elizabethville in the East and Kolwezi in the West. It was originally famous for the fact that one of the mines, Shinkolobwe, was the first place in the world from which the famous Curie family obtained the radium for their experiments. At Panda, there is a museum of mineral crystals discovered in the Katanga mines. Kawidi dance with 2 goblet drums, pinned, weighted, with mirlitons, hand beaten.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Liyala

  • Authors: Balizi ba Milopa , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Ndau , Ndau (African people) , Africa Zambia Linvingstone f-za
  • Language: Lozi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152051 , vital:39207 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR067-09
  • Description: This dance is performed near the hut of the sick person while the diviner Ngaka sings and dances. Liyala dance for sick people with Ngaka diviner and (1) Sikumwa, (2) Kajakiri, (3) Omutuna drums, and Silimba xylophone (- x 12-) and Mulai rattles.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Mkwaze

Mudima zenzele (Mad bat)

Muzemu

  • Authors: Balizi ba Milopa , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Livingstone f-za
  • Language: Tonga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138837 , vital:37677 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR045-08
  • Description: The Muzema is a Tonga or Tonka item which has been adopted by the Museum players for their own performance. The dance is a popular entertainment dance in the Zambezi Valley around the Victoria Falls region. Muzemu dance for young men and women with 3 Milupa conical drums (1) Sikumwa (2) Kajakiri (3) Omutuwa and the Namalwa friction drum. Also Mulai double basket rattles and Silimba xylophone x 12.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957

Mwariwa toca ku Henga

Nombindlela (A roadmaker)

  • 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 Willowvale f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151246 , vital:39043 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR063-12
  • Description: The "raodmaker" refers to a man labouring on the local roads. During this song the 16 months old child on the back of one of the singers was clapping its small hands in time to the rhythms of the song which shows how soon small Africans begin to pick up their African music. Women's dance, with clapping.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957

Nongelema Mufana Obetele (Nongelema, the best young man)

Pikoko

Title not specified

Tondwe kasobele ku bulaya (Honey-bird, go tell the people in Europe that I and my family are on our way back)

  • Authors: Edmond Cileshe and his wife , 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/10962/135201 , vital:37247 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0024-01
  • Description: "You with your large paunches you sit about at the court, but you do nothing.-You, you Chiefs, you do not dare to say anything, for fear of being deposed. (These words are addressed to certain Chiefs at the Court of the Chitimakulu, Paramount chief of teh Bemba tribe). "And you Mr. Tom, why do you not tell the honey-bird to fly before you to England, to tell them you are on your way, with your wife and children." This allusion is to a certain trader, Thom or Tom, whose business was said to have been ruined by the activities of the African National Congress, a local political body. The player was blind, and sang with his wife. Tuning of the instrument as follows:- 368, 340, 308, 280, 252, 232, 210, 190, 170, 154, 140 vps. Song concerning affairs of tribe, with 'Mumamba' mbira bell.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Wa sara ndeka wuranda ukuwawa (You stay alone and bitter)

Chibudo movement

  • Authors: Komukomu (Composer) , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1956
  • Subjects: Music--Mozambique , Folk music , Folk songs, Chopi , Africa Mozambique Zavala f-mz
  • Language: Chopi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133307 , vital:36962 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR011-07
  • Description: Movement from the Ngodo xylophone orchestral dance of Regulo Banguza with 15 xylophones and I rattle
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1956

Traditional song of Kinkala

Chikwembo shamuliwa

  • Authors: Kawano, Tonganyana Orelio , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1955-10-11
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Macia f-mz
  • Language: Gitonga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/227010 , vital:49401 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT375-J26 , Research no. H1R24
  • Description: Indigenous historical folk song with singing accompanied by a guitar.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1955-10-11
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