Kate kalume
- Authors: Mulobo Maswa and Soga men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Soga (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Bugembe f-ug
- Language: Soga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171639 , vital:42103 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR142-16
- Description: The Soga, like the Ganda people, often keep their cattle indoors at night. The song refers to those who neglect their bulls and oxen by leaving them out in a Kraal where they are bitten by mosiquitoes. Bulls, they say, deserve to be treated as well as the other cattle. Topical song, with 8 Magwala gourd horns side blown, 2 laced conical drums (-14.51201-), 2 pinned, footed goblet drums (-14.51201-).
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- Date Issued: 1950
Katego
- Authors: Ntamivu za Kabaka , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Folk songs, Ganda , Ganda (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Kampala f-ug
- Language: Ganda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170664 , vital:41947 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0137-08
- Description: The song upon which this tune is based referred to Katego, an important man who wore a curious head-dress. So all the people said "Katego is a wixzard." This recording was intended to show the drumming process and the melody on which the piece is based, individual players being heard on their own. Instrumental tunes, with Madinda xylophone and 5 laced drums (-14.99-).
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- Date Issued: 1950
Katuiyo I
- Authors: Kipterer Arap Kenik with Kipsigis me and girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Kipsigis (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Sotik f-ke
- Language: Kipsigis
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/177772 , vital:42871 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR166-01
- Description: A song sung on the same day and at the same place but with different leaders. The first version is unaccompanied by a Chepkongo lyre. Katuiyo was the name of the man who introduced this kind of dancing. His name also means a 'meeting place' and the lyric includes the names of various boys and girls who have met each other at the dance. This happy coincidence is made use of friends greeting each other at the dance. Dance song for men unaccompanied.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Katuiyo II
- Authors: Charondet Arap Ng'asura with Kipsigis men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Kipsigis (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Sotik f-ke
- Language: Kipsigis
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/177781 , vital:42872 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR166-02
- Description: A song sung on the same day and at the same place but with different leaders. The song is unaccompanied by a Chepkongo lyre. Katuiyo was the name of the man who introduced this kind of dancing. His name also means a 'meeting place' and the lyric includes the names of various boys and girls who have met each other at the dance. This happy coincidence is made use of friends greeting each other at the dance. Dance song for men and women with Chepkongo 6 string bowl lyre, laced.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Katulyeku bye pesa
- Authors: Ntamivu za Kabaka , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Folk songs, Ganda , Ganda (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Kampala f-ug
- Language: Ganda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170669 , vital:41948 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0137-09
- Description: "Let us enjoy the money we have earned" is the theme of the song uopn which this tune is based. Instrumental tunes, with Madinda xylophone and 5 laced drums (-14.99-).
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- Date Issued: 1950
Kawairanga
- Authors: Ezekeri Ndamanyire and Nyoro boys and girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Hoima f-ug
- Language: Nyoro
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169883 , vital:41834 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0133-14
- Description: The topical references to this song are most amusing to the audience. One refers to a certain native game guard who is said to have shot a man, buried him in a small hut and vanished into the bush. The police are still looking for him and the people are afraid as he is still at large. Orunyege dance song for boys and girls, with Ebinyege leg rattles.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Kawamyita wagenda baligira nkaituoha
- Authors: Evanise Kanengere and Toro men and girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Nyankole (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Bukuku f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Nyankole
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170326 , vital:41886 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0135-13
- Description: This wedding song is remarkably like a tune without words used by the Tonga of Nyasaland with their Malipenga horn bands. It was used by the Tonga for the Malipenga as it had no known words. What direct connection this may indicate is unknown. Enanga wedding song.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Kemfumye shukurani mtemi mpya
- Authors: Masudi Bini Amani with Nyamwezi women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Nyamwezi (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Itetemia f-tz
- Language: Nyamwezi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173134 , vital:42336 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR149-03
- Description: A song sung at the installation of Nyamwezi chiefs, wishing them happiness. Itetemia, the village where Chief Fundikira has his head-quaters, is the famous site of David Livinstone's tembe, the long, low, flat roofed house where he lived for a year, where he said goodbye to Stanley and from which he set out on his last jourbey to die near Lake Bangweulu. Song at the installation of Chiefs, with 3 conical laced drums beaten by sticks and 1 conical pegged drum beaten by hand.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Khakulu namuninya
- Authors: Daudi Mutekete with Wanga men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Wanga (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Nyanza f-ke
- Language: Wanga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/176241 , vital:42677 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR161-08
- Description: Wanga and Mukolwe went together to the hill Namurinya where they defeated the people and took the land for themselves. Fighting song used as drinking song, with Lunengele inverted bowl and clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Khuya uwa Naluwa
- Authors: Thomas Mulungo , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Gisu (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Lukiko f-ug
- Language: Masaba (Gisu, Kisu, Dadiri, Buya)
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169529 , vital:41760 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0131-14
- Description: The Teso people, a Nilo-Hamitic tribe, are pastoral and like others of their way of life, used to be given to raiding cattle from their neighbours. The Gishu tribe were among those raided and in this song they urge the raided to get their own back from the raiders.Patriotic song with Litungu seven string bowl lyre, pinned and Mungiri leg bells.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Kicha ulekia
- Authors: Lengare Skarani with Chaga men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Chaga (African people) , Hehe (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Marangu f-tz
- Language: Hehe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/174569 , vital:42489 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR156-03
- Description: "We wish you well in your work chief. You are the only one who knows what is good for us to eat, like fruits or bananas. Mangi, you are like a lion. Praise song for Chief, with Shicheyere leg bells.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Kigara kyamsiriba
- Authors: Babyesiga , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Hoima f-ug
- Language: Nyoro
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169664 , vital:41784 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0132-07
- Description: "There was a certain magician who declared that a lion could be killed by the bare hands alone. No one believes him." The singer yodells in typically African fashion. The tuning of this harp is as follows:- 336, 304, 252, 200, 168, (152), (126) vs, strings 7 and 8 were slightly out of tune, and should be 152 and 126. Topical song with Ekidongo eitht string horizontal harp.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Kikobole kiluba (To charm a woman)
- Authors: Mwanjila Nsolo , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Nyakyusa (African people) , Zaramo (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Kiwira f-tz
- Language: Nyakyusa , Zaramo
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/175291 , vital:42561 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR158-07
- Description: His Limba was decorated with a tuft of hair from a Colobus monkey. His notes were made of umbrella spokes. Tuning:- 448, 404, 368, 320, 272, 224, 170. Love song with 7 note Limba (Mbira).
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- Date Issued: 1950
Kikwabanga
- Authors: Abalere ba Kabaka , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Folk songs, Ganda , Ganda (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Kampala f-ug
- Language: Ganda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170603 , vital:41940 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0137-02
- Description: There was once a rich man called Sematimba Kikwabanga who had a large herd of gaots, but he never slaughtered any for meat. When he died the people made up this story about the miser to ridicule him. Topical song with 3 Ndere flutes, end blown, notched, open, 1 cylindrical drum, pinned, footed (-14.01201-), 3 conical drums, laced, 2 played with hands and 1 with sticks.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Kilamu
- Authors: Ndunge wa Kalele with Kamba women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk songs, Kamba , Kamba (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Machakos f-ke
- Language: Kamba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/176046 , vital:42655 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR160-16
- Description: Note the grunting noises produced by one of the women. Grunting is performed by several tribes and may well come originally from the Arabs who grunt during certain religious songs. Topical song with clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Kin anyone en Arap Nairobi
- Authors: Chebitet Arap Muina , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Kipsigis (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Sotik f-ke
- Language: Kipsigis
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/177703 , vital:42849 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR165-15
- Description: The song describes a donkey's complaint. It was brought from Nairobi, it says, when it was much fatter. Unlike lucky men. it does not recieve money as wages but only maize. "Don't bother me but leave me alone" says the donkey. The Chepkseem is a wishbone shaped instrument, virtually the two arms and yoke of the lyre but without the usual resonating bowl. The tuning was:- 316, 268, 240, 220, 188 vs. Arap Towett was the name of the Kipsigis interpreter who translated all his peoples songs for us. Topical song, with Chepkesem 5 string frame lyre (external resonator - petrol tin).
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- Date Issued: 1950
Kineneko
- Authors: Shaba Kasiani with Chaga men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Chaga (African people) , Hehe (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Marangu f-tz
- Language: Hehe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/174598 , vital:42492 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR156-05
- Description: "Mangi (Chief) you are fond of your people. If the Mangi loves you, you should love both your friends and enemies." Praise song for Chief, with Shicheyere bells.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Kinyakinya
- Authors: Melany Mewarali with Meru men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Chaga (African people) -- Music , Meru (African people) -- Music , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Arusha f-tz
- Language: Meru
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173932 , vital:42424 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR153-08
- Description: Hail Chief. Rule your children well in the new year as you have done in the past. Our chief wears shoes and a tie. It is a bad man who makes love to a woman only under cover of darkness." A very simple melody sung at the end of the year. Party song with Kisengele bell
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- Date Issued: 1950
Kiriri
- Authors: Wangari wa Gibson with kikuyu girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk songs, Kikuyu , Kikuyu (African people) , Songs, Kikuyu--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Forest Hall f-ke
- Language: Kikuyu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/175549 , vital:42592 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR159-11
- Description: "Anyone who dares to stop the dance should be denied the abilty to bear children. Simple school dance song. European insipiration is almost certain in the first item, possibly taken from "There was a farmer who had two sons." Dance song for boys and girls.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Kiriyo
- Authors: Nasuti Social Club , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Soga (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Ssaza Chiguru f-ug
- Language: Soga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171473 , vital:42064 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR141-11
- Description: The singer is singing about his oen clan and what has happened to its various members. A tune under the same name "Kiriyo" is played by 6 men on an ensemble of Budongo Likembe at Jinja, and was recorded at Jinja earlier in the same month. Topical song with Budongo Likembe and Nsaasi flat tin rattle (-12.54-).
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- Date Issued: 1950