Mwe baiyashi cenjeleni (My parents take care)
- Authors: B. Kabushi and D. Mwenya , 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/10962/151707 , vital:39162 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR065-04
- Description: This is a warning to bring up their children carefully or they will go to the bad. "I have 2 children, the boy is a 'tsotsi' (vagabond) and the girl is a Kapenta (a painted one) so I have given birth to 2 useless children." Mortality sing with guitar.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Shiwifulunganye ifunde
- Authors: Bancroft Seventh Day Adventist Choir , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-07-19
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Bancroft mine f-za
- Language: Bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/242299 , vital:51027 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT506-L128 , Research no. L2Y8
- Description: A hymn stating that one shall not interfere with the law of the Sabbath.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-07-19
Nkoya calo ca kutali
- Authors: Shomongo, Jailosi , Kalinda, Lipeyo , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-07-28
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kwawambua f-za
- Language: Bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/206038 , vital:46977 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT057-C58 , Research no. C3Q1
- Description: A nostalgic song about farewells accompanied by the mbira and kankobele.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-07-28
Umfweni ubuwite
- Authors: Members of the Christian mission Separatist Hymn , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-07-11
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Chingola f-za
- Language: Bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/240527 , vital:50844 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT487-L108 , Research no. L2Q16
- Description: A separatist hymn.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-07-11
Fwe bena lucelo ntanda
- Authors: Luunda women , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-07-20
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kambwali, Kwawambua f-za
- Language: Bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/204516 , vital:46793 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT-046 , Research no. C3H13
- Description: A song sung when a girl is being initiated accompanied by clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-07-20
Lwimbo natampa mwe banandi
- Authors: Shikilanga, Abulamu , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-08-24
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Not specified f-za
- Language: Bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/209154 , vital:47348 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT086-C102 , Research no. C4Q6
- Description: Not specified.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-08-24
Mwata kinianta kasasa kazembe no.12
- Authors: Chama, Koliani , Chinyanta, Shadrack , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-07-21
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kwawambua f-za
- Language: Bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/204877 , vital:46832 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT049-C50 , Research no. C3I17e
- Description: A song to praise the chiefs accompanied by drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-07-21
Kakashimbi nkumuye mu s/c 5 ulucelo
- Authors: Filimba, C , Kosimasi, P , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-07-16
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kitwe f-za
- Language: Bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/241848 , vital:50975 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT499-L120 , Research no. L2V13
- Description: Kalela dance unaccompanied, about a man who met a woman in section 5 of the mine and they planned a time to arrange an affair.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-07-16
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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Cikandya cikailemena mu calo
- Authors: Bemba men , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-07-28
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kwawambua f-za
- Language: Bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/206018 , vital:46974 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT057-C58 , Research no. C3P22
- Description: A drinking song to accompany the Mupukumo dance, which is the drinking party dance accompanied by rattles.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-07-28
Title unknown
- Authors: Performer not specified , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-07-21
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kwawambua f-za
- Language: Bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/204569 , vital:46799 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT-046 , Research no. UNKNOWN
- Description: Sounds like counting numbers one to five in vernacular language.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-07-21
Lili pamaciko lile-pyola
- Authors: Lumbwe, Bwalya , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-08-24
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Not specified f-za
- Language: Bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/209117 , vital:47344 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT085-C101 , Research no. C4Q4
- Description: Not specified.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-08-24
Nohakuye kokola newasha moyo mubulwele
- Authors: Shikilanga, Abulamu , Bemba men and women , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-08-24
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Not specified f-za
- Language: Bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/209163 , vital:47349 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT086-C102 , Research no. C4Q7
- Description: Not specified.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-08-24
Mutenekele mwana mayo
- Authors: Musungu, Aroni , Bemba boys , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-07-28
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kwawambua f-za
- Language: Bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/205927 , vital:46963 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT056-C57 , Research no. C3P17
- Description: A topical song sung when man arrives after hunting or fishing and is hungry.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-07-28
Mwata muonga no.2 sunkutu
- Authors: Chama, Koliani , Chinyanta, Shadrack , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-07-21
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kwawambua f-za
- Language: Bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/204819 , vital:46826 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT049-C50 , Research no. C3I17a
- Description: A song to praise the chiefs accompanied by mondo drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-07-21
Tulenwo bwalwa we mwana tule
- Authors: Mwali, Shewess , Group of Bemba men , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-07-07
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Mulfulira f-za
- Language: Bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/237817 , vital:50557 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT472-L93 , Research no. L2N2
- Description: Song on marital trouble.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-07-07
Chisankunta ku michila ya nama
- Authors: Luunda men and women , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-07-18
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kwawambua f-za
- Language: Bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/203997 , vital:46728 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT-042 , Research no. C3G1
- Description: A dance song for Wakubasha dance accompanied by drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-07-18
Kumulu ekwafumcae
- Authors: Catholic hymn sung about Christmas and the angles. , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-07-17
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kitwe f-za
- Language: Bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/242010 , vital:50992 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT502-L123 , Research no. L2W12
- Description: Catholic hymn sung about Christmas and the angles.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-07-17
Nabakansike mu musebo
- Authors: Small girls , Mwansa, Lili , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-07-22
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kwawambua f-za
- Language: Bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/205052 , vital:46852 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT051-C52 , Research no. C3J5
- Description: A school song sung by girls.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-07-22
We mama wanga
- Authors: Cabala, Jackson , 3 Bemba boys , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-07-08
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Mufulira f-za
- Language: Bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/238862 , vital:50667 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT476-L97 , Research no. L2O5
- Description: Town dance song and jive with guitar accompaniment.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-07-08