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Atufundi uyanganje (Go straight off and keep together - do not linger

- Large group of Lunda women and Kalemba, Hugh Tracey

Chapache

- Jean Kota and group of Lunda women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Jean Kota and group of Lunda women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Southern Lunda (African people) , Folk music , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo Democratic Republic Kabinda f-cg
  • Language: Lunda
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139546 , vital:37749 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR048-14
  • Description: Both the drum and the hands beat out the usual double beat, with the stick providing the simple syncopation of 3 beats and a double beat followed by 2 beats and a double, so commonly found throughout Southern Congo, regardless of the measure of the song. The song ends with the leader calling out to the singers "Manyoka" to which they answer with a set phrase which sounds like: "A pinda akwezhi." Party song with clapping and small goblet drum tapped on the side as well as beaten (14.52251-).
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Chipuri (The singing gourd)

- Group of 12 Bena Shimba women and Alexis Chovu, Hugh Tracey

E-ye-ye alawombi tombi (I have lost my hair-do)

- Group of 8 Lunda men and women, Hugh Tracey

E-ye-ye asemanga aweni akweti mana (There are two kinds of women)

- Group of 6 Lunda men. Leader: Conguboyi Ntambo, Hugh Tracey

E-ye-ye kusumbukila kulunda (The Lunda marriage)

- Group of 6 Lunda men. Leader: Conguboyi Ntambo, Hugh Tracey

Emu alunda kuwaha kwenu (You, Lunda, are a handsome people)

- Group of 14 Lunda men and 4 women, Hugh Tracey

Eya mulanda kankola kami (I like my girl)

- Group of 6 Lunda men. Leader: Conguboyi Ntambo, Hugh Tracey

Kachancha

- Group of 5 Kete men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of 5 Kete men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Southern Lunda (African people) , Folk music , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Kasai f-cg
  • Language: Lunda
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139416 , vital:37736 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR048-04
  • Description: The slit drum is called mutumba (the canoe) and the cylindrical drum is Nguma. This group is situated between the Lunda and the Luba. A notably fierce and savage people. They come from the extreme south of the Kasai-near the Angola border. This dance was (in the old days) danced with a slave in the midst. At the final "Ho" (characteristic of the dance) the slave's head was severed at a single blow. The 3 xylophones were propped up at sn angle of about 45 degrees by small forked sticks. The resonators were either gourds or lengths of bamboo with open mirliton. The bamboo resonators were palstered with mud, presumably to stop their cracking. Each note was attached to the frame with a simple cord, but prevented from slipping by a second string attached near the node and made fast onto the frame. The insulating material on the frame was a bundle of long grass in each case. The three xylophones were called:- Dujimba devase. " dwapakadie. " dwa mukuma. Maza dance for men and women with 1 slit drum (canoe), 1 weighted cylindrical drum (Nguma), open hand beaten and 3 xylophones.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Kahuru ngoma ayo mapmanda (Rabbit plays the drum)

- B. Makariki and 3 boys, Hugh Tracey

Kakwezhi (The month)

- Group of 8 Lunda men and women, Hugh Tracey

Kalombo (Thank you)

- Large group of Lunda women and Kalemba, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Large group of Lunda women and Kalemba , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Southern Lunda (African people) , Folk music , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo Democratic Republic Kabinda f-cg
  • Language: Lunda
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139490 , vital:37743 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR048-09
  • Description: The larger drum was also tapped on the side by a stick. The clapping was done with cupped hands. The Chief de Centre Kapenda, was the head of this group. Jadotville is the headquaters of the central region of the Union Miniere, the other 2 towns being Elizabethville in the East and Kolwezi in the West. It was originally famous for the fact that one of the mines, Shinkolobwe, was the first place in the world from which the famous Curie family obtained the radium for their experiments. At Panda, there is a museum of mineral crystals discovered in the Katanga mines. Kawidi dance with 2 goblet drums, pinned, weighted, with mirlitons, hand beaten.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Kankola kame

- Group of Lunda women and Albertina Kashiala, Hugh Tracey

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

- R. Chimengwa and 5 Kaonde men, Hugh Tracey

  • 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.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Libela (We are going to dance)

- R. Chimengwa and 5 Kaonde men, Hugh Tracey

Malona diya wadikenge leli kufwa (Malona was warned of danger)

- Group of 14 Lunda men and 4 women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of 14 Lunda men and 4 women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Southern Lunda (African people) , Folk music , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Mwinilungu f-za
  • Language: Lunda
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139357 , vital:37730 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0047-14
  • Description: "Malona was warned of danger but she paid no attention and thus met with an accident." This song follows common Lunda pattern with the chorus singing in organum. The Lunda tribe occupy the watershed from which three great rivers arise: the Zambezi, the Lualaba and the Kasai, the one flowing east to the Indian ocean and the other two comprising the main southern branches of the Congo flowing westwards to the Atlantic. Kahaku ceremonial dance song with rattle and struck bottle.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Mbainaka (Farewell-I am going)

- Alexis Chovu and group of 12 Bena Shimba women, Hugh Tracey

Mutshwa kusaeuhamhish Musoka wa (The Judge, Musoka, is going)

- Group of 9 Lunda men, Hugh Tracey

Ntende

- Large group of Lunda women and Kalemba, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Large group of Lunda women and Kalemba , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Southern Lunda (African people) , Folk music , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo Democratic Republic Kabinda f-cg
  • Language: Lunda
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139481 , vital:37742 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR048-08
  • Description: The larger drum was also tapped on the side by a stick. The clapping was done with cupped hands. The Chief de Centre Kapenda, was the head of this group. Jadotville is the headquaters of the central region of the Union Miniere, the other 2 towns being Elizabethville in the East and Kolwezi in the West. It was originally famous for the fact that one of the mines, Shinkolobwe, was the first place in the world from which the famous Curie family obtained the radium for their experiments. At Panda, there is a museum of mineral crystals discovered in the Katanga mines. Kawidi dance with 2 goblet drums, pinned, weighted, with mirlitons, hand beaten.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Nyambilichina twali akwawu ku Muwewu (Nyambilichi is taking other girls to Muwewu) (

- Group of 14 Lunda men and 4 women, Hugh Tracey

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