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Lulua mukwabumba

- Anastasia Bampelea, Luba women, Hugh Tracey

Luwendo

- Group of 6 Luba men, Hugh Tracey

Mama Josefina

- Ilunga Patrice and Misomba Victor, and friends, Misomba Victor, Hugh Tracey

Mamwana kufiki mundi

- Ilunga Patrice and Misomba Victor, and friends, Misomba Victor, Hugh Tracey

Masenga wa Bena Nomba (Masenga of the Bena Nomba

- Ngoi Nono and Kabongo Anastase with friends, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Ngoi Nono and Kabongo Anastase with friends , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Topical songs , Instrumental music , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Katanga f-cg
  • Language: Luba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134497 , vital:37167 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0020-06
  • Description: This is a song set to a guitar accompaniment - in which the idiom both of melody and accompaniment follows the folk tradition. It is an excellent example of modern topical songs from this region of Southern Congo. Topical song with 2 guitars and bottle, small rattle and whistle.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Masengu

- Ilunga Patrice and Misomba Victor, and friends, Misomba Victor, Hugh Tracey

Masengu

- Kasongo Adalbert, Hugh Tracey

Mazha

- Group of 6 Luba men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of 6 Luba men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Luba-Lulua , Luba (African people) , Cultural anthropology , Luba-Lulua language , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Kasai f-cg
  • Language: Luba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137680 , vital:37549 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR039-03
  • Description: "Masha" , the player of the female xylophone turned his left hand rubber-headed beater around, and hit the tonic (194 vs) continously while playing normally with the right hand, after the fashion of the Kanyoka players. The male range is 194 vs through two octaves and 1 note to 880. The female has two notes below 194 i.e. 160 and 144. 194 appears to be the tone centre. The scale of the instrument as follows: 880 776, 640, 576, 520, 480, 440, 388, 320, 288, 260, 240, 220, 194, 160. Ceremonial pieces for a Chief with 2 Siimba xylophones, 3 goblet drums, pinned, weighted, closed, with mitlitons and hand beaten.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Mbainaka (Farewell-I am going)

- Alexis Chovu and group of 12 Bena Shimba women, Hugh Tracey

Mbwiya ndalo Chalo (Mbwiya, son of Chalo)

- Ilunga Patrice and Misomba Victor, and friends, Misomba Victor, Hugh Tracey

Mionde abana

- Ngoi Nono and Kabango Anastase with 9 Luba men, Hugh Tracey

Mishiba

- Group of 16 Bena Budia men, 16 Bena Budia men, Hugh Tracey

  • 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.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Mudima zenzele (Mad bat)

- Kaseba Anatole, Hugh Tracey

Mukala bwanga

- Kabango Prospere and friends, Kabango Prospere, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Kabango Prospere and friends , Kabango Prospere , 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/10962/135627 , vital:37283 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR025-04
  • Description: The song is a lament for a young man who fell to his death from a palm tree, when cutting the fruit for palm-oil. Note: the Belande are a sub-group of the Songe people, who form a part of the Luba tribe. Lament with Chisanshi box, with sound holes.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Muleba mushianda tato

- Ngoi Nono, Kabongo Anastase with 9 Luba men, Hugh Tracey

Muleka mwene ngoie

- A. Kaseba, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: A. Kaseba , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Luba-Lulua , Luba (African people) , Cultural anthropology , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Katanga f-cg
  • Language: Luba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137904 , vital:37572 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR040-07
  • Description: The singer goes on to enumerate all the various districts where the rumor of the fame of this legendary beauty has arrived. "Muleka is a girl so beautiful that her fame has spread far and wide throughout the Kasai." This is a good example of a new accompaniment to an indifenous form of song. Topical song with guitar.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Muleka Mwene Yombwe (Name of a man)

- Ngoi Nono and Kabango Anastase with Luba men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Ngoi Nono and Kabango Anastase with Luba men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Topical songs , Instrumental music , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Katanga f-cg
  • Language: Luba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134515 , vital:37170 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0020-08
  • Description: The song is about a man called Muleka Mwene Yombwe who refused to allow his wife to go down to the river to fish. All the group's songs were songs they had heard in their own village and set to the guitar, and this is an excellent example. Topical song with 2 guitars and bottle, and small rattle.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Musambo

- Large group of of Luba men and women, Hugh Tracey

Musambo kabwalala ya ba lalua

- Group of Lulua men, women and girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of Lulua men, women and girls , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Luba-Lulua , Luba (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Dibaya f-cg
  • Language: Luba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183904 , vital:44082 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR183-03
  • Description: This item has an interesting opening, the two Chisahnji coming in one after the other, followed by the drum, solo voice and eventually the people until the whole dance is in full swing. It is notable that the basis of the song is not merely repetitive. Bitanda Kakunda dance, with 2 Chisahanji gourd resonator, 1 goblet drum, weighted, pinned and hand beaten, 3 basket rattles and hand clapping
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Mutoka chini

- Nyundu Gabriel (flute) and Kwadi Bonza (mbira) with Luba men, Hugh Tracey

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