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Wai mwanangu (Where is my son?)

- Syadimana Nsaga, Hugh Tracey

Walianzi sunu Gengere (Where did you eat Gengere)

- Group of Tonga men, Hugh Tracey

Wangwa walila (The baby is crying)

- Group of 12 Lozi men and women, Hugh Tracey

We ngoma mashiana migoti nokwinta (The dance I have danced throughout the mines)

- C. Yamba, J. Kabalale and G. Lupala, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: C. Yamba, J. Kabalale and G. Lupala , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Ushi (African people) , Music--Zambia , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kitwe f-za
  • Language: Aushi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/140132 , vital:37838 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR053-10
  • Description: "The song we are going to sing you is so interesting that you will even leave your supper to come and listen to us even the police with their wives and children have left their duties just to come and hear. The Lamba people are making fun of us and saying we Aushi/Lumbo have no copper mine. But Lake Bengwelu is our mine because wheras you Lamba, you get all your wealth from the mines, we get it from our fish. In place of the jack hammers we have a net. The miners use a rock drilling machine underground, and we use a Mukwano net." Kalela dance song.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

We nkalemo yachile (The leader (lion) of the dance)

- T. Sibakwe, N. Veleshiano and S. Mwansa, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: T. Sibakwe, N. Veleshiano and S. Mwansa , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Ushi (African people) , Music--Zambia , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Fort Roseberry f-za
  • Language: Aushi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/140123 , vital:37836 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR053-09
  • Description: "How many tribes are there? The Lamba, the Lenje, the Lumbo not forgetting the Kande, because we admire their language. We make fun of the Nyakyusa and the Kasai, on account of their dress; plain dresses are just as good. Look at a girl from the Mumbo region, she does not dress like a Kasai, yet look at her beautiful clothes. When you change over from your country dress, do not take quickly to town dresses and become a prostitute. Kalela dance song.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Wenela

- Mwayulukula, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Mwayulukula , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Zambia , Field recordings , Nyakyusa (African people)--Music , Safwa (African people)--Music , Africa Zambia Mufulira f-za
  • Language: Nyakyusa-Ngonde , Safwa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151866 , vital:39181 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR066-06
  • Description: The singer was Safwa from Mbeya district of Southern Tanganyika. The tune "Wenela" is sung, they say, when going to join up with the Witswatersrand Native Labour Association organization to work on the mines of South Africa and elsewhere. Self-delectative song with Pango board zither.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Wo ye ye Ndaluwuluke (Woye - I am going forever)

- Jimu Machinje and wife (Ngonya), Hugh Tracey

Yachipondeka 'owe owe'

- Masaria and other Tonga women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Masaria and other Tonga women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
  • Language: Tonga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138126 , vital:37596 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-01
  • Description: This song were taken during the actual grinding of millet into meal outside a hut. The millet was a fine brown variety known as Munga in Rhodesia. This small work song is sometimes well known by everyone in the village and commonly used by the women as they grind their corn on the stone outside their hut, or they are individual compositions without a name and with few words to the lyrics. Grinding song accompanied by the sound of grindstone.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Yakonyomba

- Timoti Sadimbi, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Timoti Sadimbi , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
  • Language: Tonga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138956 , vital:37689 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR046-02
  • Description: Played with 3 notes. The notes were roughly hewn pieces of wood laid across the thighs ans played by means of sticks. In this case, the player stood behind the back of the young man on whose thighs the notes were played and beat the notes bending forward over his shoulders. The man acting as xylophone stand sat on a stool with his feet on another stool. Beneath his thighs was a large pot used as simple external resonator. The instrument is played out in the fields when preparing the winter gardens in May. Once the gardens are planted, the xylophone notes are discarded and used as fire wood, new ones being cut each year. The position of the loose notes was changed with each change of tune to facilitate the playing of the item. The pause during the 3rd recording was caused by one of the notes rolling down the boys's thigh and having to be replaced. Self-delectative song with Chikirekore loose note xylophone x 4 notes, pot resonated.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Yalila ngololo kutwaga belega (You were praised by the man you worked for)

- Group of Tonga men and women led by Joseph Munyeme, Hugh Tracey

Zakanaka musikana e yeye (It is all right, girl)

- Jerevani Siakuteka, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Jerevani Siakuteka , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
  • Language: Tonga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139010 , vital:37695 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR046-08
  • Description: The onlookers occassionally make comments especially if they like the song. "Chabota" - good or "Play well, so that the children will listen to you." And, "I will sit all day and smoke while you play," Chief Chipepo made this last remark. The chief in these parts is addressed as "Mwami" , as in Ruanda-Urundi. Tuning of the instrument as follows: 384, 352, 316, 288, 256, 232, 208, 192 vps. Self-delectative song with Deza mbira, board and external resonator.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Zumina unditole ulibama (If toy don't love me, send me back to my mother)

- 2 Tonga women and 2 young girls, Hugh Tracey

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