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Authors: Nyamugumi Mihabo Nyamwezi men and women , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1950
Subjects: Nyamwezi (African people) , Sukuma (African people) , Folk songs, Sukuma , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Dar-es-Salaam f-tz
Language: Nyamwezi
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173282 , vital:42353 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR150-05
Description: 'The English are a straight forward, good and polite people. They are as good as drinking water and are not hasty, this is a good dance for boys, come and join us." The singers are all Nyamwezi who have come down to the East coast from the interior near Tabora and have now settled permanently at the coast in or around Dar-es-Salaam. These Nyamwezi singers of Dar-es-Salaam have an attractive way of singing their songs repeating each stanza after the soloist. This style may well have been copied from the Arabs or Swahili. Tatu Binti Ali is the young wife of Idi Selemani the organiser of the group. Hiyari ya moyo dance song for men and women..
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Date Issued: 1950

Authors: Sanyenke Gethula with Sukuma men , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1950
Subjects: Nyamwezi (African people) , Sukuma (African people) , Folk songs, Sukuma , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Kisesa f-tz
Language: Nyamwezi
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173418 , vital:42369 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR150-16
Description: Their neighbours still raid them for their cattle and have to be fought off. Why the lion should have spots like a leopard is not clear, except that a young lion retains for a while the spotted marks with which it is born. Fighting song.
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Date Issued: 1950

Authors: Likhengele Makhono with Sukuma men and women , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1950
Subjects: Nyamwezi (African people) , Sukuma (African people) , Folk songs, Sukuma , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Mwanza f-tz
Language: Nyamwezi , Sukuma
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173671 , vital:42397 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR152-05
Description: Secret socities, charms and occult ideas are an everyday part of the lives of the Sukuma people. Charms and counter charms to a people who know no physical chain of cause and effect and only a vague one, are still considered valuable. The Wigasha dance is performed sitting down with most of the action confined to stretching up the arms and twisting the torso. The team of dancers performs routine actions in unision with arms and body. "I am Thinking abouth the death of my love who looked after me well. Wigasha dance song for men.
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Date Issued: 1950

Authors: Kabadiko Lugembe with Sukuma men and women , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1950
Subjects: Nyamwezi (African people) , Sukuma (African people) , Folk songs, Sukuma , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Ilemera f-tz
Language: Nyamwezi
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173369 , vital:42363 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR150-12
Description: "No, no, this man only a messenger and is not to be blamed." The Sukuma are given to forming groups or socities with definite objectives. Some are solely for dancing, others for hunting while others again like the Buchwezi group believe they can create protective spells against attack by crocodiles from Lake Victoria and the river. Buchwezi protective spell, with gourd rattles.
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Date Issued: 1950

Authors: Thungu Giti with Sukuma men , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1950
Subjects: Nyamwezi (African people) , Sukuma (African people) , Folk songs, Sukuma , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Nzega f-tz
Language: Nyamwezi , Sukuma
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173540 , vital:42382 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR151-13
Description: Zagambayo had a friendly fight with another man in which it had been arranged that the loser should pay a cow. Zagambayo lost and was told to run and fetch his cow. The Nzega is the leaping dance action where the men leap into the air in time with the music. Puba dance song for men and women.
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Date Issued: 1950

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