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Kwela siya hamba

Kwela siya hamba (Let's go)

Kwerekwere munga, kwerekwere musamu (Pull, pull the munga-tree, pull, pull the rollers)

  • Authors: Group of Tonga men , 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/10962/138225 , vital:37611 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-10
  • Description: Two singers were doing a pantomime of pulling a canoe over the sand. The munga tree is the one used for making canoes and appears to be the tamarind which grows to a considerable height and girth in the alluvial soils near the Zambezi and its small tributaries in the valley. In this part of the valley, very few canoes are used and they are not large: 20-30 feet only. Canoe launching song (Bgwato-canoe)
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Kwimbo layetu nqwe tulinqa (If we were singing at home, we would be singing better)

  • Authors: Group of Lozi men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Lozi (African people) , Music--Zambia , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Mangu f-sa
  • Language: Lozi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139709 , vital:37771 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR051-01
  • Description: The gist of this song is much the same as that of the Jews who say: "How can we sing the songs of Zion in a strange land?" The tuning of this xylophone can be taken from a recording of each note before the item. Siyomboka dance song with 1 xylophone on a stand, 3 Milupa drums, conical and pegged.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Kyabula wa in kande Mpuya (You paddler of the canoe, save me)

  • Authors: R. Chimengwa and 5 Kaonde men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Kaonde (African people) , Folk music , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Solwezi f-za
  • Language: Kaonde
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139241 , vital:37718 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0047-05
  • Description: The gist of the song is about a man who was drowning in the river, and he called on all his friends to come and save him. His canoe was drifiting away and he could not swim. This song, they said, was used when going to raid the Lozi tribe manay years ago, before Europeans came to the country in the nineteenth century. Fighting song.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957

Lahiwe indoda (In the morning I'll say one thing)

Lahiwe indoda (When your husband is throwing you out of his house)

Lala drum rhythms

  • Authors: Safuke, Mwape and Kunda , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Instrumental music , Drum , Africa Zambia Serenje f-za
  • Language: Lala
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134715 , vital:37193 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0021-08
  • Description: This dance, they say, is done upon ant festive occasion. For Fwandoula dance, with 3 conical drums, hand beaten (Kumgulumi, Tiwira and Chirarira), with Nkonkonto stick and Misewe tin rattle. For Sai dance with 3 conical drums, hand-beaten, with 2 pairs of rattles.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957

Lala drum rhythms

Lalange ngudokwa (The diviners' children sleep on a goat's skin)

  • Authors: Group of Xhosa women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Willowvale f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136127 , vital:37341 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR028-09
  • Description: This was sung by a group of about 50 Gcaleka women all dressed in their traditional costumes with shawls and skirts made of "Kaffir sheeting" coloured with yellow or russet red ochre. Divination song with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Lamnandi ugolohlang (That has fetched this person)

  • Authors: Citaumvano , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Lusikisiki f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136596 , vital:37395 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR032-08
  • Description: Citaumvano, the singer, praises Mis Gertie Carter's store. Miss Carter is a well-known and much respected figure in the district, her father having established the store about 1870, about 25 years before the annexation of Pondoland. Praise song with guitar.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Le Mantyi ikhona igweba kanzima (The Magistrate punishes severely)

Lelingoana

Lengae

Lengae

Libela (We are going to dance)

Linyalo laka le kimonem libonela (I knew our marriage would not last)

  • Authors: Group of Lozi men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Lozi (African people) , Music--Zambia , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Mangu f-sa
  • Language: Lozi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139731 , vital:37775 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR051-03
  • Description: "I always knew our marriage would not last, because even before we married you doubted me-Now, please hold my hand or I shall die. Siyomboka dance song with 1 xylophone on a stand, 3 Milupa drums, conical and pegged.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957

Lisimo

  • Authors: Sechene Kowani , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Africa Mozambique Mabote f-mz
  • Language: Tswa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136225 , vital:37351 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR029-05
  • Description: The stick with which the serrations on the bow were rubbed, had a small rattle attached to it. The performer made the squeaking sounds by blowing inwards over the palm ribbon, in the same way as children do with a blade of grass. -He stopped the ribbon with first and third finger of the left hand. Self-delectative song with fiction bow (Chisambi).
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957

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