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Authors: Simon Sitole , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Folk songs, Ndau , Ndau (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Mt. Selinda f-rh
Language: Ndau
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/181789 , vital:43768 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR176-11
Description: "The singer dreamt one day of his own death and tells his mother, sister and the rest of his family about his dream." In fact, the singer Simon Sitole is repeating the words of a song heard from another man and does not refer to himself. Only the opening line was picked up. He made up the rest for himself. Wistful song with Mbira dza WaNdau
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Date Issued: 1957

Authors: Sithole, Simon Mafiru , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Topical song , Mbira , Africa Zimbabwe Mt. Selinda f-rh
Language: Ndau
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/132055 , vital:36792 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR003-11 , Field card no. H1B-9
Description: "Hey, child-first finish your digging. The mysteries have been listening for me. Mistakes in dancing do not carry as far as home. Listen to Mutanda drum, but first finish your grinding." Greeting child of the Mudzatsa Tree. There is a double meaning in ngoma mutanda. In the first instance it means a 'mystery or 'magic' - an unknown force, and in the second the plain literal translation of the 'Mutanda drum', a conical hollow wooden drum made of Mutanda wood. "Child of Mudzatsa Tree", refers to the eerie noise of the cracking beanpods of this tree, especially at night, and a person called by this name is only half a creature, a sprite or gnome. Three topical songs with mbira dza WaNdau and deze resonator.
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Date Issued: 1957

Authors: Simon Sitole , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Folk songs, Ndau , Ndau (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Mt. Selinda f-rh
Language: Ndau
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/181798 , vital:43769 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR176-12
Description: "Death does not take the first born first. I may die out in the country. See, ,ata, I am struggling. I am trying my best, Father, my heart is shaking, shaking." Wistful song with Mbira dza WaNdau
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Date Issued: 1957

Authors: Sitole, Simon Mafiru , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Topical song , Mbira , Africa Zimbabwe Mt. Selinda f-rh
Language: Ndau
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/132046 , vital:36790 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR003-10 , Field card no. L1B-6
Description: "See, I am crying, mother-in-law. Poverty, elder brother, alack. See, Sophiatown is bad, patisoni. In my distress I think of home. Happiness to you all at Marange." The singer sings about the conditions in which he finds himself at Sofiatown, near Johannesburg, where he works as a carpenter's assistant. His home, Marange is in the Chipinga District of Southern Rhodesia, about 400 miles north east of Johannesburg. Three topical songs with mbira dza WaNdau and deze resonator.
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Date Issued: 1957

Authors: Sithole, Simon Mafiru , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Topical song , Mbira , Africa Zimbabwe Mt. Selinda f-rh
Language: Ndau
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/132091 , vital:36797 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR003-15 , Field card no. H1B-8
Description: "You, you are wrong. Who destroyed our friendship? You, you annoy. You, you cause harm. Who destroyed our friendship?" Chigande, drinking song with mbira dza WaNdau and deze resonator.
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Date Issued: 1957

Authors: Sithole, Simon Mafiru , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
Date: 1955
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Topical song , Mbira , Africa Zimbabwe Mt. Selinda f-rh
Language: Ndau
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/132073 , vital:36795 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR003-13 , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Field card no. L1B-7
Description: "Flowers, flowers for a child to play with. My father died tragically at Makwiani, my mother stoops in the shade of the wood. This music is for worship at Marange." The sad death of his father meant nothing to the children only like a flower to play with. Now his mother walks in the shadow of death, (literally walks bowed down) in the shade of the trees. His music in this song would be used in the worship or devotion of the souls (Mashawi) were he at home, at Marange. Personal laments with mbira dza WaNdau and deze resonator.
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Date Issued: 1955

Authors: Simon Sitole , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1948
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Shona (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Mt. Selinda f-rh
Language: Shona
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/181780 , vital:43767 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR176-10
Description: Simon Sitole from Mt. Selinda was working in a native carpenter's shop in Sophiatown, Johannesburg. The town of Sinoial is a hundred miles or so to the west of Salisbury and about 300 miles from the singer's home. "I go to Sinoia because my home is too far away." Topical song with Mbira dza WaNdau
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Date Issued: 1948

Authors: Simon Sitole , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1948
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Shona (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Mt. Selinda f-rh
Language: Shona
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/181769 , vital:43766 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR176-09
Description: Simon Sitole from Mt. Selinda was working in a native carpenter's shop in Sophiatown, Johannesburg. "Ndoerera, the girl who disappointed me, saying, wash before I accept you. Johannesburg the place that worries me. Joni, Joni, the place I have come to. I was nearly dead when I left it. My father died while I was still young." Topical song with Mbira dza WaNdau
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Date Issued: 1948

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