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Baka Mutanda

Bome a ni lukela ky ntanda

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

Ichikonkoma

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

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

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

Kulangula-ka

Lumela lyambezi mwana boma

Maselino yaya yoyayu (Maselino)

Mwe baiyashi cenjeleni (My parents take care)

Nafwaya fauya cibamu candi (Looking for my girl))

  • Authors: Dyson Simwinga and Bemba men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Zambia , Field recordings , Folk songs, Bemba , Bemba (African people) , Africa Zambia Mufulira Copper Mine f-za
  • Language: Bemba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151689 , vital:39160 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR065-02
  • Description: "I went to look for my girl, but they told me she had gone to the beer-hall. So I put on my best suit and took my bicycle called "Hummer sports" and went to the beer-hall to look for her. But I found her drinking with her friends and when they saw me, they put on dark glasses. "She came up to me and said "give me a kiss", but I refused saying: "You have accepted beer from these other men." Love song with guitar.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Ndete Chakutila

Nifwe ba four pals (Greetings from the four pals)

Nkunte njinga Andre Ciku (Andrew Ciku urged us to pedal fast on our bicycles)

  • Authors: M. Sashi and group of Lumbo men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Zambia , Field recordings , Folk songs, Bemba , Bemba (African people) , Africa Zambia Mufulira mine f-za
  • Language: Bemba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151743 , vital:39166 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR065-09
  • Description: "Andrwew Ciku urged us to pedal hard. We wanted to cross the Luwongo river to get to the copperbelt, but on the way we broke down, to our regret!" This type of parallel singing is called "Kalela" and is commonly used, they say, for topical songs. These boys were actually singing in a mixture of Bemba and Aushi. Topical song
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Nsanguke Pungwa Maiswetu Nsanguke (I can change myself into a hawk)

Tamulela bantu baKuno

Tikonkote (The praying mantis)

  • Authors: Sashi and group of Lumbo men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Zambia , Field recordings , Folk songs, Bemba , Bemba (African people) , Africa Zambia Mufulira Copper Mine f-za
  • Language: Bemba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151698 , vital:39161 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR065-03
  • Description: "When you see the praying mantis, it means that someone is going to die. I will put a samll bone in the middle of the path so that it will kill an 'eagle' (An eagle is a synonym for a 'witch'") The singers employ the Kalela type of singing in organum. The similarity of magical symbolism of this kind with that of the middle ages in Europe is notable. Topical song.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Tulenwo bwalwa we mwana tule (We drink beer, child, until morning)

  • Authors: Shewess Mwali and group of Bemba men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Zambia , Field recordings , Folk songs, Bemba , Bemba (African people) , Africa Zambia Mufulira mine f-za
  • Language: Bemba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151770 , vital:39169 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR065-12
  • Description: The burden of the song is that there is trouble between the singer and his wife caused by the wife's mother; although it was explained the married couple did in fact love each other very much. "The mist does not rise without cause", they sing, presumably the mist which has obsecured their martial peace. Song on marital trouble.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Ulushimi lwa mukashana ne nsupa ya mfumu (The story of the girl and the chief's calabash)

  • Authors: Agnes Bwenpe and group of small girls , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Zambia , Field recordings , Folk songs, Bemba , Bemba (African people) , Africa Zambia Bancroft Mine f-za
  • Language: Bemba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151806 , vital:39173 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR065-16
  • Description: There was once a Chief who had a favourite wife to whom he gave a calabash. Now this Chief disappeared. One day she with the calabash, she found herself sailing down the river in it, and as she sang: "Ulushimi lwa mukashana ne nsupa ya mfunu." She sailed amongst the fish, some of which wanted to eat her. But she sang to them and they let her go. Afterwards she fell amongst crocodiles. But they too let her go when she sang to them and eventually she found herself in a village and gave it to the chief and put her in a hut where she was badly bitten by insects. However she did not kill any of them, as she was a kind and gentle woman. Then the chief sent word that she must come and undergo a test. Which was to pick out her own calabash from amongst many others. As she went one of the insects said to her: "Choose that calabash you see a fly settle on." So, when she swa all the calabashes spread out before her, she waited for a fly to settle on one. It settled on the smallest and she picked it up and said: "This is mine." Whereon the chief came out of his hut and to her amazement it was her own husband who said: "Now I know this is my own wife, because she recogonizes the calabash I once gave her." Isimi story with song.
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  • Date Issued: 1957
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