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Chiyabula

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

Authors: Nyundu Gabriel (flute) and Kwadi Bonza (mbira) with Luba men , 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/10962/137886 , vital:37570 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR040-05
Description: Self-delectative song with 1 chisanzhi mbira, 1 side-blown transverse flute, voiced note by the flute blower.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Kantende maninga

- 8 Luba men with Nyundu Gabriel (flute), Hugh Tracey

Authors: 8 Luba men with Nyundu Gabriel (flute) , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Luba-Lulua , Luba (African people) , Cultural anthropology , Luba-Lulua language , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Katanga f-cg
Language: Luba
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137695 , vital:37551 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR039-04
Description: "Aminai, munasei, aminai." This somewhat unusual piece of music has a single ground provided by the Kisanzhi (mbira) with an interesting flute obligato followed by a simple sung line of "Aminai, munasei, aminai." Praise song for a Chief with 1 chisanzhi mbira, 1 side-blown dilele munenge tranverse flute, a voiced note and tapped wood.
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Date Issued: 1957

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Masengu

- Kasongo Adalbert, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Kasongo Adalbert , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Luba-Lulua , Luba (African people) , Cultural anthropology , Luba-Lulua language , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Katanga f-cg
Language: Luba
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137765 , vital:37557 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR039-06
Description: This song is sung when external signs of mourning are taken off. It is an example of an old social custom now being featured in song on a European instrument. Obsequies, sometime after burial, with guitar and bottle.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Mudima zenzele (Mad bat)

- Kaseba Anatole, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Kaseba Anatole , 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/10962/137919 , vital:37574 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR040-09
Description: "Little mad bat, flittering and weaving to and fro like a drunken man."
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Muleba mushianda tato

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

Authors: Ngoi Nono, Kabongo Anastase with 9 Luba men , 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/10962/137950 , vital:37578 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR040-12
Description: The song concerns a girl who was left alone in the world and had no one to look after her, and so used to sing for her living. Self-delectative song with chisanzgi box mbira with sound holes.
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Date Issued: 1957

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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

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Mutoka chini

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

Authors: Nyundu Gabriel (flute) and Kwadi Bonza (mbira) with Luba men , 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/10962/137895 , vital:37571 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR040-06
Description: Self-delectative song with 1 chisanzhi mbira, 1 side-blown transverse flute, voiced note by the flute blower.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Nalongana maani (What will I do today)

- Kaseba Anatole, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Kaseba Anatole , 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/10962/137932 , vital:37575 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR040-10
Description: A poor boys: "I have no father, no mother, I am very poor, I have nothing to eat, what shall I do today." Personal lament with guitar.
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Date Issued: 1957

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Nilikwenda kwetu (I wanted to go on a journey to my country)

- Kaseba Anatole, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Kaseba Anatole , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Luba-Lulua , Luba (African people) , Cultural anthropology , Folk songs, Swahili , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Katanga f-cg
Language: Swahili
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137914 , vital:37573 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR040-08
Description: Although a Luba by tribe, the singer sang this song in Swhaili. Nostalgic song with guitar.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Tuhuri

- Large group of Kasai women and 6 men, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Large group of Kasai women and 6 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 Katanga f-cg
Language: Luba
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137745 , vital:37555 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR039-05
Description: The buzzing or nasalizing effect of the small mirliton membranes inserted into the side of the drums is clearly heard throughout this recording. The women who play the singing gourds hold their mouths just inside the orifice of their gourds and voice their notes with taught lips, using alternate sides of their mouth, as if they were lipping a trumpet or bugle. The cavity of the gourd thus resonates the sound produced. In addition, they slap the outside of their gourd rhythmically as they hold it between the palms of their hands. Wedding and ceremonial with 4 goblet drums, closed, pinned, weighted, with mirlitons. Quiet hand clapping (-12.05-) and 4 singing gourds. (-11.13-).
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Date Issued: 1957

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Wenda nemukwene wa mudinga (If you walk with your friend, tell him to walk discreetly)

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

Authors: Nyundu Gabriel (flute) and Kwadi Bonza (mbira) with Luba men , 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/10962/137876 , vital:37569 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR040-04
Description: The actual words as given were: "Tell your friend to walk quietly and not look up." The flautist uses a voiced note or notes while playing his flute. The scale of the instrument as follows:- 680, 600, 536, 480, 448, 424, 356, 300, 268, 240, 224, 212, 178, 150, 134. Self-delectative song with 1 chisanzhi mbira, 1 side-blown transverse flute, voiced note by the flute blower.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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