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"Baberita babakana babasangule apumbu." (Babarita has been rejected and they have made a fool of her)

  • Authors: Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Africa Zambia Serenje f-za
  • Language: Lala
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134340 , vital:37124 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0019-07
  • Description: Self-delectative song with Kankowele x 8, fan shaped mbira, with external resonator and mirliton.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957

"Bwalwa bwa chiwowo." (Beer not drunk in peace.)

  • Authors: Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Africa Zambia Serenje f-za
  • Language: Lala
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134313 , vital:37120 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0019-04
  • Description: "This beer is for the people, the Kaonde, the Lamba and the Nsenga." The people who use magic are worrying me at my house. I must go to the diviner to find out who it is. Why are you standing there at the door? Come in and do not stay outside."
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957

"Cilelensuma." (The sun set)

  • Authors: Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Africa Zambia Serenje f-za
  • Language: Lala
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134322 , vital:37121 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0019-05
  • Description: Self-delectative song with Kankowele x 8, fan shaped mbira, with external resonator and piece of glass tapped with metal.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957

"Ilanga lacona." (The sun set)

  • Authors: Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Africa Zambia Serenje f-za
  • Language: Lala
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134349 , vital:37125 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0019-08
  • Description: The song is taken from the old well-known tune from S. Rhodesia ("Ilanga lashona."), which first become popular as a guitar song in Bulawayo. The cowboy, he sings, puts on a large hat as a sign of strenght.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957

"Kulilandile." (Crying)

"Luwalo-o-iuwale." (Start, o start the song)

  • Authors: Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Africa Zambia Serenje f-za
  • Language: Lala
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134304 , vital:37118 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0019-03
  • Description: "What are we doing? The White men have come. Their tents are over there beyond the Chiwombo river." This was first sung long ago, they say, when the Whites first came to their country about 1900, or a little earlier.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957

"Nina Namusonda Sanguweji." (The girl Namusonda Sanguweji)

Abalala bafuma ili batemuna (The lover has come in the light of day)

  • Authors: Group of 5 Lala men and chorus of 6 women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Africa Zambia Mkushi f-za
  • Language: Lala
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134752 , vital:37197 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0021-12
  • Description: The music of this dance was performed without its accompanying ceremony, as it was recorded in the mine compound and not at home in the village. Nsase dance song for ceremonial dance with 1 goblet drum, pegged, hand beaten and struck bottle.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957

Ba ku Mageledi fyo balila

Ba Machi Bwanga

  • Authors: Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Africa Zambia Serenje f-za
  • Language: Lala
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134331 , vital:37123 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0019-06
  • Description: The singer calls his girl Machi Bwanga and the other women, including the mother of Changwe, to come and help him to sing.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957

Ba Mari' tukasambe (Mary let us go to wash ourselves)

  • Authors: Adamsoni Kabamba , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Instrumental music , Mbira music , Africa Zambia Serenje f-za
  • Language: Lala
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134675 , vital:37190 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0021-06
  • Description: "Mary let us go to wash ourselves at the river. On earth we live but to die. Mary join in the singing because we both know we live but to die. There are some beautiful peple on earth; so Mary sing with me this song." Self-delectative song with Kankowele mbira, fan-shaped, with external resonator.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957

Ba Serenje balokulila bawishibo (Serenje is weeping over his father)

  • Authors: Adamsoni Kabamba , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Instrumental music , Mbira music , Africa Zambia Serenje f-za
  • Language: Lala
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134640 , vital:37186 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0021-04
  • Description: "When Serenje's father died, he mourned for a long time. "Toranchi" has taught me how to shoot on the rifle range, so, now I have learnt to shoot, I may be going to the war, and do not know if I will ever come back." This is a piece of fantasy, for in fact, Mr. Torrence has not taught him to shoot, but it is an oblique form of flattery and praise. He is fond of Mr. Torrence who is assistant African personnel manager, and that is why he sings about him in this way. The fact that Mr. Torrence was an officer in the King's African Rifles during the war may have contributed to the singer's hero worship of him. Self-delectative song with Kankowele fan-shaped mbira with external resonator.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957

Bamangolosa bachusuwano

Banakalunga Chikula

Bantamba fituka (The magician)

  • Authors: Adamsoni Kabamba , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Instrumental music , Mbira music , Africa Zambia Serenje f-za
  • Language: Lala
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134666 , vital:37188 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0021-05
  • Description: A certain wizard, so the story goes, once caught a secretary bird and brought it into his house alive in order to use it for magical purposes and for killing other people. Now, this man soon died and left this secretary birf behind. So he sings this song to mock who use magic because they will surely die, just the same. :There are foolish men who leave their families unprovided for while they go off with prostitutes." "There is sadness which envelopes a child when its parents die, and a sadness also which envelopes a parent when its child dies." Self-delectative song with Kankowele fan-shaped mbira, mbira with external resonator.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957

Bata wasunga mulundu

Bata wasunga mulundu

Bena Kazembe balitumpa

Eko ilimpenta

Funda infwala aponya mwana nawona umwiko

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