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Authors: Kasadi Celestine , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Slit drums , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Kandakanda f-cg
Language: Kanyoka
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134440 , vital:37151 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0020-01
Description: The message sent out on this occasion was to call people to come and dance. The Chondo slit drum was made from a hollowed log through a slit, with a rectangular hole at each extremity of the slit. The drum, or gong, is rested on a circular insulation pad as the whole instrument vibrates after the fashion of a xylophone note and the sound would be deadened if it rested directly on the ground. Message calling people together with Chondo slit drum.
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Date Issued: 1957

Authors: S. Kaseya and A. Kabamba and group of Kanyoka men , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Instrumental music , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Kandakanda f-cg
Language: Kanyoka
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134458 , vital:37157 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0020-03
Description: "When those people (Kasai or Luba) on the other side of the river hear us singing so well, they want to come and cut our throats." The river appears to be either the Bushimaie or the Lubilashi, which are said to separate the Kanyoka tribe from the Luba and other tribes. Masamba dance with 2 guitars, 3 goblet drums, 2 basket rattles and 1 piece of metal.
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Date Issued: 1957

Authors: S. Kaseya and A. Kabamba and group of Kanyoka men , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Instrumental music , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Kandakanda f-cg
Language: Kanyoka
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134472 , vital:37163 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0020-04
Description: According to Father de Nolf, quoted by le Pere van Bulck, S. J., the BaLuba Lubilashi used to pay a tax to these Kanyoka chiefs who were themselves the envoys of the Luba emperors from Kasongo Nyembo. In return for their submission they recieved the chieftainship and its external signs: a vase to contain kaolin, a hat, a sceptre, a tortoise and a lion's skin. The Kanyoka have adopted many elements of the underlying culture of the Kasai and its Luba people Kamwendende dance with 2 guitars, 2 basket rattles, 3 goblet drums, and piece of struck metal
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Date Issued: 1957

Authors: Chibanda and Kasena with 7 Kanyoka men , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Topical songs , Instrumental music , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Kandakanda f-cg
Language: Kanyoka
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134487 , vital:37165 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0020-05
Description: "The Kanyoka captured the chief of the Kasai people on the other side of the river, cut off his head, put it in a pot of beer and drank the beer." It is not certain from the context to which tribal wars this incident refers, if any. It may well be a form of boasting or braggadocio. Topical song with 2 guitars, 3 basket rattles and 1 bottle.
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Date Issued: 1957

Authors: Large group of Kanyoka men and women , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Instrumental music , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Kandakanda f-cg
Language: Kanyoka
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134449 , vital:37155 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0020-01
Description: Although the slit drum, or gong, is used for sending messages among this Congo tribe which lives beside the Bushimaie tributary of the Sankuru, itself a tributary of the Kasai, the great southern aem of the Congo River, it is also used as an accompaniment for dances. It is not known for certain whether it is used to communicate with the dancers during the course of a dance, as is the common practice in West Africa; but from present evidence this appears to be unlikely among the Kanyoka. Kalibambo dance song with 2 Silimba xylophones, 1 slit drum, 3 gobolet drums, handbeaten and 2 basket rattles.
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Date Issued: 1957

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