Ri humbela tshilalelo
- Authors: A hundred girls led by Nyamungozwa , performer not specified , composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1956
- Subjects: Folk Music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Limpopo Province f-sa
- Language: Venda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/402080 , vital:69816 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , JBFT07-JV19-JV3A4
- Description: Indigenous music
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1956
Taba moko
- Authors: A Mampuya na baninga baye , A Mampuya and John Ouwerx , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1940-00-00
- Subjects: Popular music--Africa , Dance music , Dance music--Caribbean Area , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo City not specified f-sa
- Language: Lingala
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/210637 , vital:47520 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , CR0942 , Research no. P85010H
- Description: Rumba dance song accompanied by various instruments
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1940-00-00
Tata Benoit
- Authors: A Mampuya na baninga baye , A Mampuya and John Ouwerx , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1940-00-00
- Subjects: Popular music--Africa , Dance music , Dance music--Caribbean Area , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo City not specified f-sa
- Language: Lingala
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/210617 , vital:47518 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , CR0941 , Research no. P85011H
- Description: Rumba dance song accompanied by the marimba
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1940-00-00
Nabali Muasi
- Authors: A Mampuya na baninga baye , A Mampuya and John Ouwerx , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1940-00-00
- Subjects: Popular music--Africa , Dance music , Dance music--Caribbean Area , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo City not specified f-sa
- Language: Lingala
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/210606 , vital:47517 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , CR0941 , Research no. P85011H
- Description: Fox-trot dance song accompanied by a guitar
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1940-00-00
Bamama na bana
- Authors: A Mampuya na baninga baye , A Mampuya and John Ouwerx , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1940-00-00
- Subjects: Popular music--Africa , Dance music , Dance music--Caribbean Area , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo City not specified f-sa
- Language: Lingala
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/210628 , vital:47519 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , CR0942 , Research no. P85010H
- Description: Rumba dance song accompanied by various instruments
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1940-00-00
Title not specified
- Authors: A Masewe , performer not specified , composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1948
- Subjects: Folk Music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South africa Durban f-sa
- Language: Ndau
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/372813 , vital:66625 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , AC0409-A2
- Description: Indigenous music
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1948
Bloemfontein
- Authors: A Mhlolutini girl , Performer not specified , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: Date not specified
- Subjects: Folk Music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa city not specified city not specified f-
- Language: Zulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/396697 , vital:69210 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , GM04-09-TR10-A-4
- Description: Indigenous music
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: Date not specified
Ke ne ke le meiti (I was a maid)
- Authors: A small group of Sotho women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Tebang f-lo
- Language: Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162242 , vital:40824 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0106-08
- Description: This song is sung the right before the girls leave the village for their initiation school. "I was a maid to many Europeans. Long ago when I was a girl I tended calves. I had to pay for water, and pay to sleep as well." Lelingoana women's initiation song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Leboko II
- Authors: a, b and c. Labims Keebine. d and e. Joseph Modisi Moiloa , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Dinokana f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Hurutshe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165832 , vital:41286 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0115-07
- Description: At the time of recording this village was much divided on account of the political questions of the continuity of the Chieftainship. One acting Chief had been deposed and was living in Bechuanaland and another Chief was acting in his place. The speaker, who composed and read the praises of his elder brother, the present acting Chief, had been a teacher in their village for 38 years. Moiloa II was the original Chief after whom the reserve was named, about 1880 (died 1886). Ikalafeng succeeded hs grandfather Moiloa in 1887 and died in 1894. Pogiso II (Abram) the ex-Chief of the Moiloa Reserve, is still alive. Praise songs for a) Chief Moiloa II, b) Chief Ikalafeng, c) Chief Pogiso II, d) Chief Diutloiling wa Sebogodi. e) Chief Michael Bagatsu Moiloa.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Leboko I
- Authors: a, b and c. Labims Keebine. d and e. Joseph Modisi Moiloa , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Dinokana f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Hurutshe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165823 , vital:41285 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0115-06
- Description: At the time of recording this village was much divided on account of the political questions of the continuity of the Chieftainship. One acting Chief had been deposed and was living in Bechuanaland and another Chief was acting in his place. The speaker, who composed and read the praises of his elder brother, the present acting Chief, had been a teacher in their village for 38 years. Moiloa II was the original Chief after whom the reserve was named, about 1880 (died 1886). Ikalafeng succeeded hs grandfather Moiloa in 1887 and died in 1894. Pogiso II (Abram) the ex-Chief of the Moiloa Reserve, is still alive. Praise songs for a) Chief Moiloa II, b) Chief Ikalafeng, c) Chief Pogiso II, d) Chief Diutloiling wa Sebogodi. e) Chief Michael Bagatsu Moiloa.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Ndaramba miranda kumudzi kwangu (I will have more trouble in my home)
- Authors: A. A. C. Lubino and 2 Nyungwe women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Sena , Tumbuka (African people) , Sena (African people) , Nyungwe (African people) , Folk music , Africa Mozambique Furancengo f-mz
- Language: Sena , Nyungwe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156472 , vital:40006 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR091-06
- Description: The instrument was played inside a somewhat broken gourd. The player said his mother was a Nyungwe and his father came from Cenelimane. Topical song with Sanzi mbira bell.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Ndasaya may angu (I have lost my mother)
- Authors: A. A. C. Lubino and 2 Nyungwe women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Sena , Tumbuka (African people) , Sena (African people) , Nyungwe (African people) , Folk music , Africa Mozambique Furancengo f-mz
- Language: Sena , Nyungwe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156481 , vital:40007 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR091-07
- Description: A simple repetitive tune with little to say. Topical song with Sanzi mbira bell.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Muleka mwene ngoie
- 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
Aliyeli nitauzeni (Aliyeli - greet me!)
- Authors: A. Nyambizi and Henga women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Henga (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dowa, Mzimba District f-rh
- Language: Tumbuka/Henga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156282 , vital:39971 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR090-09
- Description: "Aliyeli, greet me, I am a small child. Aliyeli, write a letter Aliyeli, I came from afar." The burden of the song would appear to be that a young woman about to have her first child is trying to make contact with her man, now that she is about to bear (with difficulty) her first child. Dance song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Amai sadza ne derere
- Authors: A.S Mapa and Boys at Domboshawa school , performer not specified , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk Music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe city not specified f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/395201 , vital:69058 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , ACO897-C6F7
- Description: Indigenous music
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949
Tuwe-ruwe nzo tsema
- Authors: A.T. Mwamosi (Composer) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1955
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Guitar , Instrumental music , Africa Mozambique Inharrime f-mz
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/132804 , vital:36889 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR008-12
- Description: Story song by Chopi girl and chorus
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1955
Achifa dukwana chamina
- Authors: A.T. Mwamosi (Composer) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1955
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Guitar , Instrumental music , Africa Mozambique Gaza f-mz
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/132768 , vital:36884 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR008-08
- Description: Sentimental song with 2 guitars.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1955
Watasala warila nanzifile
- Authors: A.T. Mwamosi (Composer) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Guitar , Instrumental music , Africa Mozambique Gaza f-mz
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/132791 , vital:36887 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR008-11
- Description: Two topical songs with 2 guitars
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Mashenganyana
- Authors: A.T. Mwamosi (Composer) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1955
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Guitar , Instrumental music , Africa Mozambique Gaza f-mz
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/132773 , vital:36885 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR008-09
- Description: Topical song with 2 guitars
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1955
Ilanga langishiya
- Authors: A.T. Mwamosi (Composer) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Guitar , Instrumental music , Africa Mozambique Gaza f-mz
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/132786 , vital:36886 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR008-10
- Description: Two topical songs with 2 guitars
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957