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Masengo ma Bena Nomba

- Ngoi Nono, Kabongo Anastase and friends, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Authors: Ngoi Nono , Kabongo Anastase and friends , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk Music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo city not specified f-cg
Language: Luba
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/346863 , vital:63437 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , TP3964-L2Z19
Description: Indigenous music
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Masengu

- Ilunga Patrice and Misomba Victor, and friends, Misomba Victor, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Ilunga Patrice and Misomba Victor, and friends , Misomba Victor , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Topical song , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Katanga f-cg
Language: Luba
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135691 , vital:37290 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR025-10
Description: Topical song with 2 guitars and bottle
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Masengu

- Kasongo Adalbert, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Kasongo Adalbert , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Luba-Lulua , Luba (African people) , Cultural anthropology , Luba-Lulua language , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Katanga f-cg
Language: Luba
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137765 , vital:37557 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR039-06
Description: This song is sung when external signs of mourning are taken off. It is an example of an old social custom now being featured in song on a European instrument. Obsequies, sometime after burial, with guitar and bottle.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Mazha

- Group of 6 Luba men, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Group of 6 Luba men , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Luba-Lulua , Luba (African people) , Cultural anthropology , Luba-Lulua language , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Kasai f-cg
Language: Luba
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137680 , vital:37549 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR039-03
Description: "Masha" , the player of the female xylophone turned his left hand rubber-headed beater around, and hit the tonic (194 vs) continously while playing normally with the right hand, after the fashion of the Kanyoka players. The male range is 194 vs through two octaves and 1 note to 880. The female has two notes below 194 i.e. 160 and 144. 194 appears to be the tone centre. The scale of the instrument as follows: 880 776, 640, 576, 520, 480, 440, 388, 320, 288, 260, 240, 220, 194, 160. Ceremonial pieces for a Chief with 2 Siimba xylophones, 3 goblet drums, pinned, weighted, closed, with mitlitons and hand beaten.
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Date Issued: 1957

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Mbainaka (Farewell-I am going)

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

Authors: Alexis Chovu and group of 12 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/10962/139201 , vital:37715 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0047-03
Description: The song is that of a man wo quits his village with no hope of ever seeing again. It may also - it appears - express the feelings of a woman whose husband has sent her away. Lament with 3 singing gourds (Chipuri), 1 basket rattle (-12.54-), 1 bottle (-12.17-) and hand clapping (-12.03-).
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Mbwiya ndalo Chalo

- Ilunga Patrice, Misomba Victor and friends, Tracey, Hugh

Authors: Ilunga Patrice , Misomba Victor and friends , Tracey, Hugh
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk Music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of the Congo city not specified f-cg
Language: Luba
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/345713 , vital:63308 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , TP3972-L3B3
Description: Indigenous music
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Mbwiya ndalo Chalo (Mbwiya, son of Chalo)

- Ilunga Patrice and Misomba Victor, and friends, Misomba Victor, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Ilunga Patrice and Misomba Victor, and friends , Misomba Victor , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Topical song , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Katanga f-cg
Language: Luba
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135672 , vital:37287 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR025-08
Description: "Mbwiya son of Chalo-You must not go out without first saying where you are going." Topical song with 2 guitars and 1 bottle
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Mionde abana

- Ngoi Nono and Kabango Anastase with 9 Luba men, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Ngoi Nono and Kabango Anastase with 9 Luba men , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Topical songs , Instrumental music , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Katanga f-cg
Language: Luba
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134529 , vital:37172 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0020-10
Description: The singers of this song were all employed on the Kolwezi Copper mine, the most westerly of the great copper mines of the Katanga province of Southern Congo. Topical songs with 2 guitars, bottle and small rattle.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Mishiba

- Group of 16 Bena Budia men, 16 Bena Budia men, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Group of 16 Bena Budia men , 16 Bena Budia men , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Ensemble playing , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Katanga f-cg
Language: Luba
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135567 , vital:37276 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR025-01
Description: This group were Bena Budia, a group allied to the Bekalehwe, who belong to the linguistic group of Luba/Songe. The ensemble of end-blown flutes consisted of three pitches, treble, tenor and bass, the middle register having several players holding a raft of 2 to 6 pipes and the bass and treble having 2 each only. Pipe ensemble with 2 weighted goblet drums, closed, hand beaten, and 16 sets of panpipes.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Mudima zenzele

- Kaseba Anatole, Performer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Authors: Kaseba Anatole , Performer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk Music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic republic of Congo city not specified f-cg
Language: Luba
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/345641 , vital:63300 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , TP3965-L2Z11
Description: Indigenous music
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Mudima zenzele (Mad bat)

- Kaseba Anatole, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Kaseba Anatole , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Luba-Lulua , Luba (African people) , Cultural anthropology , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Katanga f-cg
Language: Luba
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137919 , vital:37574 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR040-09
Description: "Little mad bat, flittering and weaving to and fro like a drunken man."
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Mukala bwanga

- Kabango Prospere and friends, Kabango Prospere, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Kabango Prospere and friends , Kabango Prospere , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Ensemble playing , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Katanga f-cg
Language: Luba
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135627 , vital:37283 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR025-04
Description: The song is a lament for a young man who fell to his death from a palm tree, when cutting the fruit for palm-oil. Note: the Belande are a sub-group of the Songe people, who form a part of the Luba tribe. Lament with Chisanshi box, with sound holes.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Muleba mushianda tato

- Ngoi Nono, Kabongo Anastase with 9 Luba men, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Ngoi Nono, Kabongo Anastase with 9 Luba men , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Luba-Lulua , Luba (African people) , Cultural anthropology , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Katanga f-cg
Language: Luba
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137950 , vital:37578 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR040-12
Description: The song concerns a girl who was left alone in the world and had no one to look after her, and so used to sing for her living. Self-delectative song with chisanzgi box mbira with sound holes.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Muleka mwene ngoie

- Kaseba Anatole, Performer not specified, G Kaseba, Tracey, Hugh

Authors: Kaseba Anatole , Performer not specified , G Kaseba , Tracey, Hugh
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk Music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic republic of Congo city not specified f-cg
Language: Luba
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/345623 , vital:63298 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , TP3963-L2Z13
Description: Indigenous music
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Muleka mwene ngoie

- A. Kaseba, Hugh Tracey

Authors: A. Kaseba , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Luba-Lulua , Luba (African people) , Cultural anthropology , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Katanga f-cg
Language: Luba
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137904 , vital:37572 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR040-07
Description: The singer goes on to enumerate all the various districts where the rumor of the fame of this legendary beauty has arrived. "Muleka is a girl so beautiful that her fame has spread far and wide throughout the Kasai." This is a good example of a new accompaniment to an indifenous form of song. Topical song with guitar.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Muleka Mwene Yombwe

- performer not specified, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Authors: performer not specified , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk Music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic republic of Congo city not specified f-cg
Language: Luba
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/345605 , vital:63296 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , TP3962-2563a
Description: Indigenous music
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Muleka Mwene Yombwe (Name of a man)

- Ngoi Nono and Kabango Anastase with Luba men, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Ngoi Nono and Kabango Anastase with Luba men , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Topical songs , Instrumental music , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Katanga f-cg
Language: Luba
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134515 , vital:37170 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0020-08
Description: The song is about a man called Muleka Mwene Yombwe who refused to allow his wife to go down to the river to fish. All the group's songs were songs they had heard in their own village and set to the guitar, and this is an excellent example. Topical song with 2 guitars and bottle, and small rattle.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Mulemba mushianda

- Kabango Prospere and friends, Performer not specified, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Authors: Kabango Prospere and friends , Performer not specified , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk Music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic republic of Congo city not specified f-cg
Language: Luba
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/345542 , vital:63289 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , TP3958-2556b
Description: Indigenous music
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Musambo

- Large group of Luba men and women, Performer not specified, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Authors: Large group of Luba men and women , Performer not specified , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk Music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic republic of Congo city not specified f-cg
Language: Luba
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/345524 , vital:63287 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , TP3957-L3C6
Description: Indigenous music
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Musambo

- Large group of of Luba men and women, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Large group of of Luba men and women , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Luba-Lulua , Luba (African people) , Cultural anthropology , Luba-Lulua language , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Kasai f-cg
Language: Luba
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137803 , vital:37561 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR039-09
Description: In the course of the song and towards the end, one of the drummers turned his drum over completely and went on drumming without losing the rhythm. Mambala dance song with 5 goblet drums, closed, pinned, weighted, with mirlitons, hand beaten and 1 double bell and basket rattle.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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