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Sabwabwa

- 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) Katanga f-cg
  • Language: Lunda
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139402 , vital:37735 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR048-03
  • 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

Tiana pa makulu

- Group of Lunda women and Albertina Kashiala, Hugh Tracey

Tulele mam'we we u chiku chimbundu (We sleep here / The night mist)

- Kalemba and large group of Lunda women, Hugh Tracey

Wadianda wa Bena Shimba (We are the people of Bena Shimba)

- Group of 9 Bena Shimba women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of 9 Bena Shimba women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Northern Lunda (African people) , Folk music , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Bakwanga f-cg
  • Language: Luba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139183 , vital:37712 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0047-01
  • Description: This group belonged to the Bena Shimba clan. As well as tipping and sometimes singing into their gourds through a length of metal pipe or tube, the gourd-blowers also struck the sides of the gourds with their hands. The gourds of this group were handsomely decorated with metal studs arranged in patterns. When asked when they performed this song, the answer was, "we sing it for funerals, but also on any sad occassion, for example when a man has to pay a large sum of money to another. Lament with 3 singing gourds (Chipuri), 1 basket rattle (-12.54-), hand clapping (-12.03-) and 1 bottle (-12.17-).
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Wela welenu mama- o muku welada mi nshona (You must be clean, neat and tidy)

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

Ya ya woye

- 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/10962/139495 , vital:37744 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR048-10
  • 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

Yarira ngosa (Ngosa declares Adolescent verses)

- B. Makariki and 3 boys, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: B. Makariki and 3 boys , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Kaonde (African people) , Folk music , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kasempa f-za
  • Language: Kaonde
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139292 , vital:37723 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0047-07
  • Description: Ngosa declares that he has just come from Ndola where he has seen a fine caterpillar tractor. Ngosa tells his friend about this tractor and goes back himself to Ndola. "On your way back, replies his friend, convey our greetings to Teresa who lives in the Lamba country." The pre occupation of small boys with the shape of new motoe cars and other pieces of machinery such as tractors, appears to be shared by African boys as well. Adolescent verses.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Yave- yave (Kafoya greetings)

- Group of 9 Lunda men, Hugh Tracey

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