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Ungabo phinduzibize Ngami

- Losina Dlamini, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Losina Dlamini , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Eswatini Emkhuzweni, Northern Distict f-sq
  • Language: Swati
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152908 , vital:39355 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR072-18
  • Description: Two finger technique only. This flute was made on the spot froma pawpaw stalk. 13" flute, end blown out of the side of the mouth, two finger holes and stopped at the end. Second tune was overblown to get an octave higher. The flute was cut to shape with a pocket knife, the two holes being cut and then shapped with a piece of stick. The other (mouth) end was reduced to lenght until the finger hole notes sounded correct. Flute tunes with Umstshingozi end blown transverse flute.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Uyadela 'Try Singers' (The great Try Singers)

- Tinote Dlamini and the try singers, Hugh Tracey

Uyakhula wena (You of the Royal Family)

- Large group of Swazi men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Large group of Swazi men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Eswatini Entonjeni, Pigg's Peak f-sq
  • Language: Swati
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152490 , vital:39283 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR069-09
  • Description: The singers all carried the long sticks with heads carved into a scroll design with 3 ridges, characteristically Swazi. They also carried cowhide shields. "Uyakhula wena wohlanga lwendloxo Wayiwa-ye! Unyaka uyaphenduka Inkonhane zichitha - wena wo hhanga." "You O chief of the royal family! Hoen of the elephant. Alas! Times are growing. The Europeans are diminishing our lands. You of the Royal family." Umgubo regimental song.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Uyolala wedwane (You are going to sleep alone, my friend)

- Roselina Ndohle and Juana Nkosi, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Roselina Ndohle and Juana Nkosi , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Eswatini Matafin, Nelspruit, Transvaal f-sq
  • Language: Swati
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152863 , vital:39350 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR072-13
  • Description: This old woman, the player of the bow, is one of the descandants of the migrant Swazis who fled with Chief Matswafeni and settled near Nelspruit. The chief's name Matswafeni, mispronounced by Zulu people as Matafene became further distorted in the months of local English into "Mataffin", the name of this large citrus estate. Self delectative song with Makweyana musical bow, stressed and resonated.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Vinyatsi Mjila (Grass on the road)

- Mugizi Mware, Hugh Tracey

Wa Ciyawo mkujaliani (The Yao despise me)

- Men and women of Pemba Village, Hugh Tracey

Waba waplumu (They have stolen the cassava)

- R. W. Katenga-Kaunda and 3 Tonga lads, Hugh Tracey

Wacepe Sifuliya (Not enough left in the pot)

- Ezra Chimpanda and 2 Chewa men, Hugh Tracey

Wada pita pana pa Angoni (We have come here to the Angoni district)

- Nyungwe men and women, Hugh Tracey

Wakazali Inhaminga (She has married at Inhaminga)

- George Zongoloti and small girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: George Zongoloti and small girls , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mpatsu, Port Herald District f-rh
  • Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156027 , vital:39943 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR089-03
  • Description: Inhaminga is the village in Mozambique beyond the Zambezi river from this district about 100 miles away to the south and about half way to the port of Beira. The drum held horizontally between the knees, membrane facing outwards-mirliton upwards, the player sitting on the ground. By raising and lowering his legs slightly the drummer presses the open end of the drum on and off his chest. The lower notes are produced while the oriffice of the drum is off his chest. The drum which had a 7 inch membrane was 12 inches tall. The water-lizard skin was weighted with paste on the inner surface and was attached with wooden pins. Nthikwi dance with cylindrical, weighted drums and mirliton.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Wakhala wekha (When you are alone)

- Four Lomwe song, Hugh Tracey

Wakuzi (Who spoiled the relish?)

- J. W. Gwengwe and boys, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: J. W. Gwengwe and boys , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Kachere, Lilongwe, Central Nyasaland f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153676 , vital:39497 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR077-15
  • Description: "Who has told you to squeeze the caterpillars? Who has told you to prepare the frog? Who has told you to squeeze the chameleon? Who has told you to squeeze the grasshopper? Who has told you to squeeze the snake? Meaning, you have spoiled the relish provided by caterpillars, etc. by squeezing them out instead of leaving them. Of the ones mentioned, the caterpillars, grasshoppers and snakes, but the chameleon definitely inedible. The song which was originally a Nyau dance song is now used as a drinking song. It appears that the creatures mentioned in the song are best cooked in their natural state without being dressed in any way. Drinking song with clapping and struck iron (a hoe) -12.16-.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Wakwatira chchabe (You are cross about nothing)

- Dawusi Chirongo, Hugh Tracey

Wammuna munabwela kale (Husband, you came long ago)

- Gezani Mwale, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Gezani Mwale , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Bimphi, Dowa, Central Nyasaland f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154028 , vital:39555 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR079-08
  • Description: "My husband, you came long ago. This year give me a child. Father, I want a child. But a red cloth you give to your mother another to your father. The spotted one you give to me." During the rainy season children are forbidden by their mothers to wear red cloth for fear the lightening might strike them. Red cloth, therefore has a bad connotation, which may be reflrcted in this song. A cloth with patterns, flowers or spots is admired and may therefore be lucky. The preoccupation of African people for offspring is clearly seen in this lyric. Self delectative song with Sansi (Mbira).
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Wamwira mangarangara (If you drink too quickly you get yourself drunk)

- Younf Tonga men and women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Younf Tonga men and women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Sena (African people) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Mtoko, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
  • Language: Tonga/Sena
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179094 , vital:39859 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR085-03
  • Description: The four drums used were 1) Mutumba, an open conical drum 37" tall, 11" membrane; 2) Jenje, an open cylindrical drum 14" tall on three legs with 10" head; 3) Miningo karipi-karipi, another conical open drum 25' tall with 9 and 4 quarter head; and a small closed drum, Usindi, 11" tall with 7 and a half head, on a three legged pedestal. The player of the two drums, Mutumba and Jenje, used his right heel to raise and lower the pitch of the Jenje as it lay on the ground beside the longer Mutumba, playing only with his hands. The other two players used sticks. The reeds were imported from the Salisbury district as no such reed grows in this district, they say, except in the Mazoe river nine miles away which was not so good as these. Four sets of end blown flutes (--11,325--). (1) 3 tied together. Katero, pitch 784, 744 and 680 vs (4 and a half" - 5") (2) 3 tied together. Shauriro, 680, 600, 552 vs (5 and a quarter , 6 and a quarter) (3) 2 tied together. Dendera, 504 and 448 vs (7", 7 and a half") (4) 2 tied together. Madobi, 416, 384 vs. (8 and a half, 8 and 3 quarters). Gororambe dance with end blown pipes, drums and rattles.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Wanijalila kuwaya (He has pushed out to a bad place)

- D. Phiri, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: D. Phiri , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Henga (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dowa, Mzimba District f-rh
  • Language: Tumbuka/Henga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156291 , vital:39972 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR090-10
  • Description: "A bad place, he had trapped me in a bad place. Men have given me disease. Men deceive, they have deceived me with money. They gave me a venereal disease. It has finished the children in my home. I sit down and dream of Miliam." This lament is perhaps a strange basis for a dance except as an extension of the thought in dance drama, the equivalent of religious dancin, the extension of the music into movement. Dance song.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Wano Gambire nyama we Jarusarima (They fry meat in Jersusalem)

- 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/10962/154123 , vital:39611 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR080-02
  • Description: The player has taken a Nyasa instrument instead of the local Njari. He explained he found the smaller instrument easier to play inspite of the fact that it had only half the number of notes. He claimed he had tuned it the same as the Njari but in point of fact his scale was one note short appearing to be hexatonic whereas his tribe is known to be heptatonic. The missing note is clearly situated between 212 and 260 vs and might have been approximately 234 to 238 vibrations per second. Humorous song with Mbira.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Waroya mwana (The bewitched child)

- Saini Murira, Chingaipa Madzikuminga, Zhogi Muzengedza and Saini Madera, Hugh Tracey

Waselo waselo (Jumping, jumping)

- Chewa women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Chewa women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Visanza f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156954 , vital:40072 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR092-16
  • Description: A husband complained that his wife was unfaithful to him and worried about his son by this woman, as she would have to leave him if she did not mend her ways. The translation given for Waselo as 'jumping' may indeed be literally incorrect, but it is intended to convey promiscuity in going about with several men. Dance song for Chintala women dance.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Wasukula sakwatidwa (Before she is old enough)

- Young girls and four drummers, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Young girls and four drummers , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mpatsa f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/157910 , vital:40112 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR093-02
  • Description: "If a girl is not yet a maiden she cannot marry." As the dance progressed the castor oil paste on the bass drum gradually began to shake off the head with the intense percussive movement." Likhuba dance with eight tuned drums.
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  • Date Issued: 1958
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