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Endai kwenyu watonga, usare machinda (Go away home Watonga, leaving the sons of Chiefs)

- S. Murira, C. Madzikuminga, Z. Muzengedza and S. Madera, Hugh Tracey

Authors: S. Murira, C. Madzikuminga, Z. Muzengedza and S. Madera , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1959
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Sena (African people) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Mkota, Mtoko, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
Language: Tonga/Sena
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179155 , vital:39868 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR085-10
Description: This item is based upon well known and traditional melody of the region which has changed little, if al all, in the last thirty years when first recorded by me (Hugh Tracey), the only distinguishable difference merely reflecting the relative ability of the various players. This style of playing and the type of Mbira used, the Madebe dza Mondoro, are common both to the Sena/Tonga tribe and the Budya clan of the Korekore tribe in the Mtoko district who live further west. Party song with 3 Matebe dza Mondoro (Mbira) and Murumbi drum.
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Date Issued: 1959

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Kari muchipfuwa kanaziwa ne mwene wako (What is in your heart only yourself can tell)

- Murira, Madzikuminga, Muzengedza and Madera, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Murira, Madzikuminga, Muzengedza and Madera , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1959
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Sena (African people) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Mkota, Mtoko, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
Language: Tonga/Sena
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179105 , vital:39866 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR085-08
Description: The great volume of sound mabe by the Matebe inside their resonators of large gourds gives a grand impression of what it is like to play in a band of this nature. Party song with three Matebe dza Mondoro (Mbira and Murumbi drum).
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Date Issued: 1959

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Mbiya ambwiya wo tiende (Grandmother, let us go)

- Jesi Tembo, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Jesi Tembo , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1959
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Sena (African people) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Mkota, Mtoko District, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
Language: Tonga/Sena
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179081 , vital:39872 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR085-14
Description: A hyena's grandmother died and so he went off to suckle from a woman in order to show people that he was in reality the son of the woman. The meaning of this story is not clear, though it is among the many African stories in which people turn themselves or are turned into animals to stress a moral point. Story song.
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Date Issued: 1959

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Murumi wakaenda ku Harari (The man who went to Harari (Salsibury))

- Tonga married women, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Tonga married women , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1959
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Sena (African people) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Mkota, Mtoko District, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
Language: Tonga/Sena
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179134 , vital:39871 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR085-13
Description: The story concerns a husband who went off to work at Harari (Salisbury) and spent three years there. But when he came back he only brought to his wife an empty sack or a hat or just paper only, or a mouse skin, or a mole. In factnothing of value at all! Story song.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1959

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Njenjenje

- Madzimbone and younf Tonga women, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Madzimbone and younf Tonga women , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1959
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Sena (African people) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Mkota, Mtoko District, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
Language: Tonga/Sena
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179199 , vital:39870 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR085-12
Description: The leader was an old woman and the chorus a number of young married women. Party song.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1959

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Ririka-ririka rerera-ririka (When I die what shall I leave behind)

- Young Tonga women, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Young Tonga women , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1959
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Sena (African people) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Mkota, Mtoko District, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
Language: Tonga/Sena
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179210 , vital:39869 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR085-11
Description: A song sung after supper in the evening. Party song.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1959

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Waramba ukuma (He refused the relationship)

- Murira, Madzikuminga, Muzengedza and Madera, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Murira, Madzikuminga, Muzengedza and Madera , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1959
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Sena (African people) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Mkota, Mtoko, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
Language: Tonga/Sena
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179072 , vital:39867 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR085-09
Description: "You refused friendship, Machinda. You refused friendship, it is worn out." Machinda was the title given to the sons of the Monomotapa and may well have come down from those days in the sixteenth century when the Monomotapa held sway over this part of what is now Southern Rhodesia. Party song with three Matebe dza Mondoro (Mbira and Murumbi drum).
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Date Issued: 1959

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Ai-ye! Nzara yakabora (Ai-ye! Famine has come)

- Young Tonga men and girls, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Young Tonga men and girls , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1958
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Sena (African people) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Mkota, Mtoko, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
Language: Tonga/Sena
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179125 , vital:39861 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR085-05
Description: The reed pipe players both sang and blowed their pipes alternately each having a distinct part in the complex whole. This recording omitted the usual drum accompaniment for clarity's sake only. Gororombe dance with 4 sets of end blown pipes, rattles and drums.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1958

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Amasewe mukadzi wakanaka (The beauty)

- Joseph Ngonyama Shumba, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Joseph Ngonyama Shumba , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1958
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Karanga (African people) , Folk songs, Shona , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Fort Victoria, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
Language: Shona, Karanga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154314 , vital:39646 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR081-07
Description: The player is an accomplished performer, he works for the Fort Victoria Municipality on the local roads with the grader. This song is the best known and popular in the Sipangabera district of Portuguese East Africa. It is, they say the first of all songs in the region. The word 'Amasewe' means 'mother-in-law' and the gist of the song is that a certain young man went to a nearby village where he got himself a wife and his mother-in-law kept on remarking how handsome he was. Self delectative song with mbira dzawaNdau.
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Date Issued: 1958

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Amasewe mukadzi wakanaka (The beauty)

- Joseph Ngonyama Shumba, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Joseph Ngonyama Shumba , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1958
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Karanga (African people) , Folk songs, Shona , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Fort Victoria, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
Language: Shona, Karanga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154309 , vital:39647 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR081-07
Description: The player is an accomplished performer, he works for the Fort Victoria Municipality on the local roads with the grader. This song is the best known and popular in the Sipangabera district of Portuguese East Africa. It is, they say the first of all songs in the region. The word 'Amasewe' means 'mother-in-law' and the gist of the song is that a certain young man went to a nearby village where he got himself a wife and his mother-in-law kept on remarking how handsome he was. Self delectative song with mbira dzawaNdau.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1958

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Baya wa baya (Kill, stab)

- Peter Dudurai Shiri and 4 Karanga men, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Peter Dudurai Shiri and 4 Karanga men , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1958
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Karanga (African people) , Folk songs, Shona , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Fort Victoria, Gutu District, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
Language: Shona, Karanga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154301 , vital:39645 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR081-06
Description: Peter Dudurai is a boxing trainer and this old fighting song is now used as a boxing song. It was first used in the days of the Shangaan and Matebele raids towards the end of the last century and is known from one end of the country to the other, all along the southern portion of Souhthern Rhodesia. Although not frequently heard nowadays, it was often sung twenty to thirty years ago by a previous generation. Old fighting song with clapping.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1958

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Chipindura (To turn over)

- Tawagaza Sibanda, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Tawagaza Sibanda , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1958
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Karanga (African people) , Folk songs, Shona , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Chibi District, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
Language: Shona, Karanga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154513 , vital:39741 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR082-03
Description: The player was playing with the thumb of the left hand, the thumb and first finger of the right hand. The Njari is the traditional instrument of the district having originated from the Buhera district further north over two centuries ago, when it began to displace an older variety called the Mbira-dza-Midgimu. Self delecatative song with Njari (Mbira).
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Date Issued: 1958

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Chisisi zano rine godo

- M. Runesu Gumbo, Hugh Tracey

Authors: M. Runesu Gumbo , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1958
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Karanga (African people) , Folk songs, Shona , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Fort Victoria, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
Language: Shona, Karanga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154159 , vital:39615 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR080-06
Description: This singer makes up all his accompaniments for his humorous songs and sketches which are in the true line of rombe minstrel material. "Little sister, your idea is a jealous one. I go fetch firewood, you brought back ants. I go to the stream, you brought back dirty water, I go pound, you grind very coarsely, I go to cook, you cook undercooked food, I go to cut, you cut off to much, I go to take relish, you make it all dirty, I go to work in the fields, you go for young men, I go to wash clothes, you remain dirty, Little sister, your idea is a jealous one. Chisisi is taken from the English word 'sister' with the Karanga dimunitive 'chi'. Story song with Mbira.
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Date Issued: 1958

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E. Gukuku (Pack up)

- M. Runesu Gumbo, Hugh Tracey

Authors: M. Runesu Gumbo , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1958
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Karanga (African people) , Folk songs, Shona , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Fort Victoria, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
Language: Shona, Karanga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154179 , vital:39619 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR080-07
Description: This singer makes up all his accompaniments for his humorous songs and sketches which are in the true line of rombe minstrel material. This wife had nothing to do, so she packed up her clothes and left. The people there did not like her. (Wife) "Pack up quickly, pack up quick. Is this the reason why you took me from my homw? Why do you give me this sorrow? This tray of my mother's, I will never leave it here. This that I brought with me from my home." (Man) "Take it away! Do you think I cannot get another wife?" (Wife) "Your mother gave you a dog's heart to eat! Your mother! Had I known all this I would never have come." (Mother-in-law) "Leave her, let her go! Do you think all women are as bad as her?" (Man) "You, mother, you gave me bad advice." Humorous song.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1958

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Godo (Bones)

- Esteri Shumba and 4 Karanga women, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Esteri Shumba and 4 Karanga women , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1958
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Karanga (African people) , Folk songs, Shona , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Takawarasha, Chibi District, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
Language: Shona, Karanga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154649 , vital:39758 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR082-18
Description: The singer is married to a chief. She goes around asking her fellow wives what part of the animal they received the last time a beast was killed. One says "We're all in the same bag, whats the good of being married to a chief? When he gives all the best meat to his favourite wife and only gives us bone?"
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1958

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Hama dza warumi (The husband's relatives)

- Esteri Shumba and a group of Karanga men and women, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Esteri Shumba and a group of Karanga men and women , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1958
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Karanga (African people) , Folk songs, Shona , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Takawarasha, Chibi District, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
Language: Shona, Karanga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154586 , vital:39751 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR082-11
Description: A certain woman was very fond of her own relatives and preferred them to those of her husband. The story describes how when her in-laws visited her she said she was feeling ill with pains in her back, legs, stomach, head, everywhere. But when her own people came to see her she prepared sadza porridge and all sorts of good things. She behaved like this because she was jealous of her husband's other wives and in this way paid him out. Story with song.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1958

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Handina mwana (I have no child)

- Pineas Hungwe, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Pineas Hungwe , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1958
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Karanga (African people) , Folk songs, Shona , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Fort Victoria, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
Language: Shona, Karanga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154355 , vital:39651 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR081-11
Description: I have no child. But if you want to see a jackal go along the river bank and you will find a jackal there. Jackal, what killed my child? Jackal, will you be my child? The singer is blind and as with so many blind musicians he lets his fancy roam into poetry. Who and what the jackal might represent can only be conjecture. The lack of a child is a continual source of lamentation among many Africans. Lament with Chizambi musical bow.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1958

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Jerusarima (Jerusalem)

- Wambai, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Wambai , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1958
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Karanga (African people) , Folk songs, Shona , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Chibi District, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
Language: Shona, Karanga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154540 , vital:39744 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR082-06
Description: The name of the this tune 'Jerusarima' is an adaptation of 'Jerusalem'. The title was given originally to a new style of dancing started by pupils in the schools in the early 1920's or even earlier. The dance is no longer popular but several of the Jerusarima melodies survive as adaptations on various instruments. Self delectative song with Chipendani bow.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1958

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Joki rakafa (Joki is dead)

- Group of 5 Karanga men, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Group of 5 Karanga men , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1958
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Karanga (African people) , Folk songs, Shona , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Fort Victoria, Gutu District, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
Language: Shona, Karanga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154292 , vital:39644 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR081-05
Description: The 'Bakumba' is a form of the Shangara dance. Joki, it seems, got married but his wife left him. So he went and asked his father-in-law to return the lobola but the father-in-law refused, so Joki went and killed himself by cutting his own throat. Bakumba party dance, with 2 drums and rattle.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1958

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Kare-Kare Maporisa (A policeman's journey)

- Stephen R. Gumbo, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Stephen R. Gumbo , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1958
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Karanga (African people) , Folk songs, Shona , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Fort Victoria, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
Language: Shona, Karanga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154141 , vital:39613 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR080-04
Description: Stephen Gumbo comes from the Zaka district. His description concerned two policemen who go on a tour. The English policemen goes ahead on his horse leaving his Karanga policemen far behind plodding along on his biscyle and trying to catch up. Eventually he gets to a village, has a frustrating conversation with a small girl, arrests a man for having no dog tax and takes him to the magistrate. Each action is accompanied with the approriate tune on the mbira. The house, the biscyle and the foot weary each having their own melody. Humorous story with Mbira.
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Date Issued: 1958

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