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Kyabula wa mikanda Mpuya

- Chimengwa, R, Five Kaonde men, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Libela

- Chimengwa, R, Five Kaonde men, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Mayo mayo

- Sivale, William, Three friends, Tracey, Hugh

Nashe 'nsapato nashiseka nsuno chalo?

- Sivale, William, Three friends, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Ulushimi lwa mukashana ne nsupa ya mfumu

- Bweupe, Agnes, Group of small girls, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Abayashi bonse bati bwela (Both parents say 'Come back')

- Jackson Cabala and 3 Bemba boys, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Jackson Cabala and 3 Bemba boys , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Folk songs, Bemba , Topical songs , Africa Zambia Mufulira f-za
  • Language: bemba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/${Handle} , vital:37245 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0023-12
  • Description: All the singers were born in the Mine Compound and were brought up here. Thier chief and almost exclusive musical inspiration therfore, comes from the cinema and African town dance records from Johannesburg
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Baka Mutanda

- Group of Bemba boys, Hugh Tracey

Banakashi tabalila (Women's tears do not mean a thing)

- Isaac Matafwana and Sunkutu, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Isaac Matafwana and Sunkutu , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Folk songs, Bemba , Topical songs , Africa Zambia Mufulira f-za
  • Language: bemba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135152 , vital:37242 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0023-10
  • Description: "Women's tears do not mean a thing! Their eyes shed tears while they sing with their lips." The form of this song is typically folk in its continued refrain. The situation to which the singer appears to refer, is the funeral dance in which the women sing lustily for the dance, while artificially inducing tears to fall in respect for the dead. Topical song with guitar and bottle
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Bome a ni lukela ky ntanda

- Bennt Falali abd Josias Kakambi Capiwe, Hugh Tracey

Chilumendo chakumona ku menso chilocha (How clean can a man or woman be)

- Luson Mwape Muchalo, Hugh Tracey

Ichikonkoma

- Group of Bemba boys, Hugh Tracey

Ifye achitile ba ya beli (This is what he did)

- Group of six Bemba men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of six Bemba men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Folk songs, Bemba , Topical songs , Africa Zambia Kasama f-za
  • Language: bemba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135056 , vital:37232 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0023-04
  • Description: A certain man was going to get married. But on the day of the wedding, when the bride was brought from her village, he ran away. The song was thought highly of by the audience. Topical song with clapping.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957

Iteyanye (Be prepared)

- Members of the christian Mission to Many lands, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Members of the christian Mission to Many lands , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Folk songs, Bemba , Drinking songs , Africa Zambia Chingola f-za
  • Language: bemba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135335 , vital:37260 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0024-06
  • Description: This hymn is based on Ecclesiastes, Chap. V, verse I (Hymn No. 51) This separatist African Christian Sect compose their own hymns. 2 separate Hymns.Tuning of the instrument as follows:- 368, 340, 308, 280, 252, 232, 210, 190, 170, 154, 140 vps. Mupukumo drinking song with Mumamba mbira bell.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957

Iya weni pambalama (Who is that across the river coughing?)

- Group of young Bemba girls, Hugh Tracey

Kakashimbi nkumuye mu s/c 5 ulucelo (The girl I met in section 5 this morning)

- C. Filimba and P. Kosimasi, Hugh Tracey

Kakonko (The small rough "knot" that spoils good work)

- Isaac Matafwana and Sunkutu, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Isaac Matafwana and Sunkutu , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Folk songs, Bemba , Topical songs , Africa Zambia Mufulira f-za
  • Language: bemba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135143 , vital:37241 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0023-09
  • Description: He goes on to say: "If your mother has no wisdom, how can you have wisdom?" " I married a beautiful woman, but I left her for she was diseased."If a small imperfection spoils an otherwise good work, they call the obstruction a "knot", as in a string. Topical song with guitar and bottle.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957

Kaso Bia wasapwisha Bantu (Because of Castle beer, people go naked)

- B. Cungu and F. Musonda, Hugh Tracey

Kasonde waritumpa, Kasonde mubanga (Kasonde is stupid)

- Kasonde and Mubangaied, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Kasonde and Mubangaied , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Bemba , Topical songs , Africa Zambia Kasama f-za
  • Language: bemba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/${Handle} , vital:37227 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0023-01
  • Description: The rattle was composed of a wire hoop mounted on a pole about 6 feet high. A transverse wire had pieces of iron threaded on it, which rattled when the rattle-player struck the end of the pole on the ground and struck the side of the pole rhythmically in syncopation with the palm of his left hand. Topical song with rattle pole and bottle struck with spoon.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957

Katikalepuke, katikatobeke (About to snap, about to break)

- Isaac Matafwana and Sunkutu, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Isaac Matafwana and Sunkutu , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Folk songs, Bemba , Topical songs , Africa Zambia Mufulira f-za
  • Language: bemba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135125 , vital:37239 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0023-07
  • Description: The words are mostly in Bemba with a little Swahili here and there. "About to snap, about to break. Leave me by myself, so that I can enjoy the pleasure of it. Let the others indulge in their eartly pleasures. Don't worry about them. I like my girl because she dresses well." Topical song with guitar and bottle.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957

Kulangula-ka

- Kiposho, Hugh Tracey

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