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Hugh Tracey's favourite recordings and others made for his memorial service

Hugh Tracey's favourite recordings and others made for his memorial service

Rungano rgwe mukomana nherera

  • Authors: Runeso Gumbo and 2 friends , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1963
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Karanga (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Gutu f-rh
  • Language: Karanga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/195157 , vital:45534 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR210-11
  • Description: This is the story of a young orphan boy who was told to take his turn to herd all the the cattle of the village where he lived. But it was a time of drought and there was nothing for the cattle to eat. When his turn came he took them far away into the hills and then he sang a magic song. The rain came down in torrents, the grass grew and the cattle were happy. When they came back full. One of the men followed him to find out how it happened and heard and saw what he did. He was so impressed that he promised to give the boy his daughter in marriage and told what he had seen to all the village. They arranged a big party for the orphan boy during which he demonstrated how he sang and how the rain came for him. So he married the girl and they all lived happily ever afterwards and they made him their chief to rule over them. Ngano story.
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  • Date Issued: 1963

Rungano rgwe muno waikama maperi

  • Authors: Mamungu Gumbo , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1963
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Karanga (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Zaka f-rh
  • Language: Karanga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/195130 , vital:45531 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR210-08
  • Description: This is the story of a certain man who married a girl and always her plenty of milk so that she thought he must have many cows. But this was not so. This is what he did. Every morning he would go out into the bush, make a magic, and turn himself into a hyena. Then he would join a pack of hyenas and in this disguise milk one of them. Then having plenty of milk in his pot he would turn back a man and bring home the milk. His wife became suspicious as she never saw any cattle so she called her younger sister to come help her so;ve the mystery. She watched her sister's husband fro a distance. Saw him turn into a hyena, get the milk and come back with it. So she sang this lament and this manner she told all the people what had happened, that her elder sister had married a wizard. Ngano story.
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  • Date Issued: 1963

Rungano rgwe musikana usika shandi

  • Authors: Bodzwa Fanisa Mulhanga and her 2 daughters , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1963
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Karanga (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Chipinga f-rh
  • Language: Karanga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/195148 , vital:45533 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR210-10
  • Description: The daughters names were Melia and Elena Mahuto. This is the story of a girl who could do no manner of work and had to be looked after by her sisters. Eventually she was married and when she went to her husband's home she took three of her young sisters with her to look after her. One day when they had gone off to collect firewood, her mother-in-law asked her to pund a little grain in the mortar. She told her that this was impossible and that she must never do a stroke of work or she would die. The mother-in-law did not believe her and asked her to do just a few strokes with the pestle so that she could see for herself what would happen. She agreed and immediately fell down dead. When the three sisters returned with the firewood they found their sister was not there. Where was she? No one knew. They guessed what had happened and immediately they sang a magic song which revived her sister and she came alive again. When her husband's relatives saw all this they agreed that she must return to her own home and never come back as she could never make a good wife. Ngano story
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  • Date Issued: 1963

Rungano rgwe musikana wo mvura murugwizi

  • Authors: Mamungu Gumbo , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1963
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Karanga (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Zaka f-rh
  • Language: Karanga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/195139 , vital:45532 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR210-09
  • Description: This is the story of a young man who fell in love with a girl down by the river. He did not know that she was indeed a water sprite and lived in the river. He kept on asking her to marry him, and in the end she agreed but told him that if he wanted to see her he must always come to the river. Eventually he said he wanted to take her to his home, but she said "If you do that you must always have a pot of water with you in case I should faint and only water will revive me". So he agreed, and off they set along the path. Soon she began to faint and he rushed to fetch water from the nearest stream and so revived her. On they went until she fainted again and this time the stream was much further away and he only arrived back just in time to revive her. Now there was a long distance without a stream and in the middle of it she fainted once more. He went as fast as he could to fetch the life-giving water but when he got back it was too late and she was already dead; and that is how he lost his wife, his water sprite. Ngano story.
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  • Date Issued: 1963

Chipindura

Hama dza warumi

Muzazaranda I

Muzazaranda II

Zimbige I

Zimbige II

Baya wa baya

Joki rakafa

Kare-Kare Maporisa

  • Authors: Gumbo, Stephen Runeso , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1958-05-12
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Fort Victoria f-rh
  • Language: Karanga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/251363 , vital:52119 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT583-M55 , Research no. M3C14
  • Description: A humourous song about policemen on a tour accompanied by mbira.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1958-05-12

Kurarwe

  • Authors: Gumbo, Stephen Runeso , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1958-05-12
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Fort Victoria f-rh
  • Language: Karanga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/251264 , vital:52108 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT581-M53 , Research no. M3C7
  • Description: A humourous song about people who are travelling.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1958-05-12

Mai wa Zondiwa

Muboriki wa manomano

Mukadzi unoirei-ko

Ndudzi nendudzi

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