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Luibiri

- Benet Lolubo, Meru men, composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Manini

- Mbolele Sabulon with Meru men and women, Unknown, Sabulon, Mbolele, Tracey, Hugh

Nabobo

- Mewarali, Melany, Meru men and women, composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Kinyakinya

- Melany Mewarali, Meru women and men, Folk, Tracey, Hugh

Kinyakinya

- Melany Mewarali with Meru men and women, Hugh Tracey

Kunyai

- Senduwa Selukoki, Meru men and women, Lesu, Tracey, Hugh

Kunyai

- Senduwa Selukoki with Meru men and women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Senduwa Selukoki with Meru men and women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Chaga (African people) -- Music , Meru (African people) -- Music , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Arusha f-tz
  • Language: Meru
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173901 , vital:42420 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR153-06
  • Description: Lesu, the composer of this song was a martinet in matters of dance dress. He would turn away dancers who were not properly equipped. Well dressed dancers would be brought out in front as an example for others to copy. A Meru dance is most colourful. The girls being adorned with coloured bead necklets and both men and women paint patterns in ochre colours on their faces, from vermillion to ultramarine. The complex structure of this song is most interesting and elusive. Ufina dance song for men and women.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1950

Luibiri

- Benet Lolubo with Meru men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Benet Lolubo with Meru men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Chaga (African people) -- Music , Meru (African people) -- Music , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Arusha f-tz
  • Language: Meru
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173923 , vital:42422 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR153-07
  • Description: "When we fought the Masai we beat them. We captured their women and their cattle. We defeated these 'women'. At home again, we slaughtered some of the cattle and gave half the meat to our chief. Before the white men came we had plenty but they have taken our country." So sing the Meru. But history is not quite so partisan. The scraping noise at the begining of the item is the rubbing of the spears on the bound part of the shield. Fighting song with Kisengele bells.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1950

Luibri

- Benet Lolubo, Meru men, Folk, Tracey, Hugh

Manini

- Mbolele Sabulon with Meru men, Hugh Tracey

Manyanga

- Mewarali, Melany, Meru men and women, Tracey, Hugh

Manyanga

- Melany Mewarali with Meru men and women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Melany Mewarali with Meru men and women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Chaga (African people) -- Music , Meru (African people) -- Music , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Arusha f-tz
  • Language: Meru
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173891 , vital:42419 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR153-05
  • Description: "We went along the Nairobi road, looking for water but we found none. So we returned with empty gourds and started drinking what we could find." The song is not quite what it seems on the surface and is understood to refer to cattle raiding. A Meru dance is most colourful. The girls being adorned with coloured bead necklets and both men and women paint patterns in ochre colours on their faces, from vermillion to ultramarine. The complex structure of this song is most interesting and elusive. Ufina dance song for men and women.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1950

Manyanga

- Mewarali, Melany, Meru men and women, Folk, Tracey, Hugh

Marrite

- Melany Mewarali with Meru men and women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Melany Mewarali with Meru men and women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Chaga (African people) -- Music , Meru (African people) -- Music , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Arusha f-tz
  • Language: Meru
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173872 , vital:42417 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR153-03
  • Description: "My love Marrite has been taken away. I will send my friend Morani to fetch her. Morani will go to the mission by night." The fine Marrite dance was started by Marrite who dances better than her father. "Show me the way to the court, so that I may report the man who stole my Marrite." These Meru people are among the most handsome in Africa and were a brave sight in their beautiful costumes with their bright beads, their six foot long spears and pastel coloured shields. The setting, upon the slopes of Mount Meru was also exhilarating in a green sward set among the large forest trees. Marrite dance song for men and women.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1950

Marrite

- Mewarali, Melany, Meru men and women, Tracey, Hugh

Meru washi

- Selukoki, Senduwa, Meru men, Tracey, Hugh

Meru washi

- Senduwa Selukoki with Meru men, Hugh Tracey

Mfwa kipanga

- Melany Mewarali, Meru men and women, Folk, Tracey, Hugh

Mfwa Kipanga

- Melany Mewarali with Meru men and women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Melany Mewarali with Meru men and women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Chaga (African people) -- Music , Meru (African people) -- Music , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Arusha f-tz
  • Language: Meru
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173883 , vital:42418 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR153-04
  • Description: "A certain man had a daughter who wanted to marry a young man, but the father refused. So she went to her lover and said, in Swahili, that her father had agreed to the marriage." 'To talk Swahaili' is synonymous with 'telling lies', the Meru say, as they have a rooted suspicion of interpreters who for the benefit of Europeans and others translate their language into another which they do not understand. (The Bemba of Northern Rhodesia use the word 'Chichawa' the language of the Yao in similiar sense). These Meru people are among the most handsome in Africa and were a brave sight in their beautiful costumes with their bright beads, their six foot long spears and pastel coloured shields. The setting, upon the slopes of Mount Meru was also exhilarating in a green sward set among the large forest trees. Ufina dance song for men and women.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1950

Nabobo

- Melany Mewarali, Meru women and men, Folk, Tracey, Hugh

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