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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

Kuna mai wangu (Ay my mother's place)

- Shengwe Mashowa, Hugh Tracey

Kurarwe (The railway)

- Stephen Runeso Gumbo, Hugh Tracey

Madzimure (Put out the fire)

- Mutuwenga Shawa, Hugh Tracey

Mai wa Zondiwa (Mother of Zondiwa)

- Group of 5 Karanga men from Gutu District, Hugh Tracey

Mande

- Group of Karanga men and women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: 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 Chibi District, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
  • Language: Shona, Karanga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154631 , vital:39756 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR082-16
  • Description: One of the Mashawi 9souls) dances. The Mujukwa are considered in the local mythology to represent the entities who act as go-betweens, or media, between man and the High-God: Especially in connection with their pleading for rain. Some would call them 'Angels'. The dances and songs of the Majukwa are therefore intended to concentrate attention upon aspect of social necessity. Rain, without which the people would perish. With the opening up of communications by white people the effects of draught and subsequent famine have been lessened and therefore the cult or belief in Majukwa and their functions has been proportianately diminished. A Majukwa dance with 3 Dumba drums, 1 Nyeri flute, leg rattles and clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Muboriki wa manomano (Faulty translation)

- Stephen R. Gumbo and J. G. Zimivara, Hugh Tracey

Mufupi hainyari (The short man does not tire)

- Chiga Shoko and Esteri Shumba, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Chiga Shoko and Esteri Shumba , 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/10962/154622 , vital:39755 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR082-15
  • Description: Many of the lines set against the typical yodelling of the women, are taken at random from other songs and have little or no continuity of theme. They do however serve the purpose of keeping the song going. "The short man does not tire. With whom shall I play. Ndendua, I shall die. Close the door, you, Ndendua. In the house e re re. With whom shall I stay. I will die, being just like a dog. Matupa maneke. Where we come from. Harari (Salisbury) is far away. To come out feeling guilty. Like buck from the meadow lands." etc. Song for the Gawo dance with 1 drum.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Mukadzi unoerei-ko? (What is your surname)

- Tichainda Mudyanadzo and Lunita Zimbwa, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Tichainda Mudyanadzo and Lunita Zimbwa , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Karanga (African people) , Folk songs, Shona , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Albert Mission, Gutu Reserve, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
  • Language: Shona, Karanga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154667 , vital:39762 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR082-20
  • Description: Sorry, sorry, sorry. What is the woman's surname? My surname is this child. The legs are burnt with the porcupine. What kind of 'mungu' is that, another? I have lost, I have burnt my child. Call his aunt. His aunt where is she? She digs in the chief's garden. Lift the deep voice, we pass. We will come out at Chanembe. Chanembe where there are girls. Who stab each other with knives. The spears are buried under ground . Please give us those spears. We will stab the big tree trunk. The big tree trunk, where is it? It is at the pool of Buuro. What did you give to Buuro? We gave him that little drum there. How does it sound? 'Ti-ndi-ngu!' Hippo in the pool. Where is the owner of the pool? He has gone to pick fruit. We will eat it at our home. Etc., etc.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Musikana ne Jaya (Girl and Boy)

- Stephen R. Gumbo, Hugh Tracey

Muzazaranda

- Mutuwenga Shawa, Hugh Tracey

Muzazaranda 1

- Tawagaza Sibanda, Hugh Tracey

Muzazaranda 2

- Tawagaza Sibanda, Hugh Tracey

Mwadzi itira (He has done it himself)

- Joseph Ngonyama Shumba, Hugh Tracey

Ndorowe ngoma (I play music)

- Pineas Hungwe, Hugh Tracey

Ndozofa (I shall die)

- Pineas Hungwe, Hugh Tracey

Ndudzi nendudzi

- 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/10962/154211 , vital:39621 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR080-08
  • Description: A certain Nyasa went to see his his Karanga parents-in-law and they all began drinking. Owing to difficulties which arose over the mispronounciation of certain words, he decided to distract them by saying he knew od a piece where there was even better beer. His mother-in-law then said she would accompany him there. Much later on when they had both drunk a great deal they both left the mother-in-law saying, "Don't leave me behind or I shall be murdered by 'tsotsis' (fuffians) and when my dead body is found, you will be accused of killing me." Humorous song.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Ngoma yababa kutamba nayo (Father's music for dancing with the spirits)

- Stephen Runeso Gumbo, Hugh Tracey

Ngwindingwindi ishumba inoruma (England is the lion that bites)

- Chief Takawarasha and group of Karanga men, Hugh Tracey

Nzia ya gudo achiend kumunda (The song of the baboon who went to the field)

- Stephen Runeso Gumbo, Hugh Tracey

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