Ndinochema amasebe
- Authors: Sitole, Simon Mafiru , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Topical song , Mbira , Africa Zimbabwe Mt. Selinda f-rh
- Language: Ndau
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/132046 , vital:36790 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR003-10 , Field card no. L1B-6
- Description: "See, I am crying, mother-in-law. Poverty, elder brother, alack. See, Sophiatown is bad, patisoni. In my distress I think of home. Happiness to you all at Marange." The singer sings about the conditions in which he finds himself at Sofiatown, near Johannesburg, where he works as a carpenter's assistant. His home, Marange is in the Chipinga District of Southern Rhodesia, about 400 miles north east of Johannesburg. Three topical songs with mbira dza WaNdau and deze resonator.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Sisi woere hai
- Authors: Simon Mafiru Sithole (Performer) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Topical song , Mbira , Africa Zimbabwe Chipinga f-rh
- Language: Ndau
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/132060 , vital:36793 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR003-12
- Description: Three topical songs with mbira dza WaNdau and deze resonator
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Mwariwa toca ku Henga
- Authors: Composer not specified , Elmas Nachilwa and group of Tumbuka/Henga women (Performers) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Africa Malawi Livingstonia f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134073 , vital:37068 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR017-07
- Description: The raft rattles are made from sections of stout dried grass stalks with beans or other seeds inside. They are held between the palms of the hands and swung to and fro, the thumbs or her fingers hitting the rattles at the end of the swing.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Waye-aye
- Authors: Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Africa Mozambique Espungabera f-mz
- Language: Ndau
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136331 , vital:37363 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR029-16
- Description: This is a song without words. Self-delectative song with Mbira dza waNdau.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Intlanganiso ya magqiha ye Izangoma (Herbalists' meeting
- Authors: Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Herbalists , Africa South Africa Umtata f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134821 , vital:37209 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0022-01
- Description: Extracts from the proceedings at the first conference of Izangoma Diviners, to be held in Umtata, Transkei. The speech and songs were entirely impromptu and demonstrate the type of speech employed by such herbalists and their supporting singers or assistants. Herbalists' meeting, with songs, speech, with clapping, stamping and 1 bass drum.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Muchima ngoyi muchungu
- Authors: Kazari Inosa (Performer) , Chibanga Kalulu (Performer) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Kanyok (African people) , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Kabinda f-cg
- Language: Kanyok
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133885 , vital:37032 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR015-10
- Description: Kabingo muke party dances with 2 Chisanzhi, board, gourd resonated and 2 goblet drums with mirlitons, pinned, weighted, closed and handbeaten; 1 basket rattle and bottle
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Anyanori, anyanori paramwa pasa tiki
- Authors: Composer not specified , Elmas Nachilwa and group of Tumbuka/Henga women (Performers) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Africa Malawi Rumpi f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134100 , vital:37072 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR017-10
- Description: The gift of a small coin such as a threepenny bit indicates, they expalined, an affection for the young man asking for it from the girl.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Cheyu chamunganda
- Authors: Composer not specified , Group of Tumbuka men (Performers) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Wedding music , Songs, Tumbuka , Africa Malawi Rumpi f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134109 , vital:37073 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR017-11
- Description: The song is used as a walking song, when on the way to some festivity like a wedding, as well as a hunting song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Tula mutwana
- Authors: Two elderly women (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Kingwilliamstown f-za
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133660 , vital:37001 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR013-13
- Description: Lullaby with clapping
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Title not specified
- Authors: Perfomer not specified , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Country not specified City not specified f-
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/246400 , vital:51472 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT540-L161 , Research no. DRUMING SONG
- Description: Not specified.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Chitima wajumbo
- Authors: Composer not specified , Elmas Nachilwa and group of Tumbuka women (Performers) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Africa Malawi Rumpi f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134090 , vital:37071 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR017-09
- Description: It appears from what the singers explained, that this Chief Jumbo took the train one day in Nyasaland and the occasion being so unusal for the Chief in whose district no railway lines exist, that it merited a song in his honour.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Sekelele tawona tengwa ipya
- Authors: Composer not specified , Group of Tumbuka men (Performers) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Wedding music , Songs, Tumbuka , Africa Malawi Rumpi f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134118 , vital:37074 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR017-12
- Description: The song is used as a walking song, when on the way to some festivity like a wedding, as well as a hunting song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Inkulu into ezakwenzeka
- Authors: Nontwintwi and Annie Macholweni (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Kingwilliamstown f-za
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133587 , vital:36993 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR013-06
- Description: Self-delactative song with Hadi bow, unbraced, open string and resonated
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Kabinda
- Authors: Kasadi Celestin (Performer) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Kanyok (African people) , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Serenje f-cg
- Language: Kanyok
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133805 , vital:37019 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR015-01
- Description: Processional for a chief (ceremonial), with 2 Silimba xylophones, 1 Chondo slit drum, 3 goblet drums, weighted, pinned, closed, hand-beaten with mirlitons
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
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
Nindo wasai, danindo wasai
- Authors: Performer not specified , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Lala (African people) , Africa South Africa Serenje f-za
- Language: Lala
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133795 , vital:37018 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR014-15
- Description: Sai dance song with 3 drums, handbeaten with stick and 2 pairs of rattles
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Wemka unlungu nelizwe
- Authors: Group of Xhosa women (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Kingwilliamstown f-za
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133641 , vital:36999 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR013-11
- Description: Lament with clapping
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ba ku Mageledi fyo balila
- Authors: Lala men and women (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Lala (African people) , Africa South Africa Serenje f-za
- Language: Lala
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133757 , vital:37013 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR014-11
- Description: Fwanda-fwanda dance song with 3 conical drums. 1) Akanono, 2)Cimbulunge, 3) Fwanda fwanda
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Luwendo
- Authors: Kasadi Celestin (Performer) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Kanyok (African people) , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Serenje f-cg
- Language: Kanyok
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133810 , vital:37020 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR015-02
- Description: Processional for a chief (ceremonial), with 2 Silimba xylophones, 1 Chondo slit drum, 3 goblet drums, weighted, pinned, closed, hand-beaten with mirlitons
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
"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