Kemai II
- Authors: Kankolongo Alidor , Performer not specified , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1952
- 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/10962/323947 , vital:60727 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , TP2997-XYZ7176b
- Description: Indigenous music
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Mbainaka (Farewell-I am going)
- 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
Mazha
- 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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Mukendi wa-kudibwe dia lubwebwe
- Authors: Mandevu, Kaninda , Luba people , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 0000 00 00
- Subjects: Popular music--Africa , 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/10962/264780 , vital:53770 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , TP0425-ABC11592
- Description: Indigenous music
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 0000 00 00
Chihibalumuna bembi
- Authors: Louis Mulowa and Lunda men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Ruund (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Mwinilunga f-za
- Language: Lunda , Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183004 , vital:43902 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR179-16
- Description: "A man who wears a waistcoat without a jacket looks a perfect fool." The most trivial remarks are quite enough to suggest a good dance tune. The lower notes of this Chisanzhi were tuned with wax attached to the underside of the tips of the reeds. Sikinta dances with Chizanzhi Mbira and gourd.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Kalamba wabaria
- Authors: Kaninda Mandevu , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 0000 00 00
- Subjects: Popular music--Africa , 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/10962/266088 , vital:53918 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , TP0497-ABC12626
- Description: Indigenous music
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 0000 00 00
Madinga abena Kasai
- Authors: Kalonji Marcel , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Kabinda f-rh
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/182236 , vital:43813 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR178-07
- Description: Two simple little songs by a young mine worker at the Kipushi mine on the Congo / Northern Rhodesia border. An unknown dialect of Luba. The first song is about his village and the girls he know there. Topical song with Likembe Mbira
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Bikunda kabichena kusela
- Authors: Kalonji Marcel , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Kabinda f-rh
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/182535 , vital:43838 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR178-08
- Description: Two simple little songs by a young mine worker at the Kipushi mine on the Congo / Northern Rhodesia border. An unknown dialect of Luba. The first song is about his village and the girls he know there. Topical song with Likembe Mbira
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Singa tumbo yawa nduba
- Authors: Mwenda Jean Bosco , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1956-00-00
- 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: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/215510 , vital:48066 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , CR1156 , Research no.CO41
- Description: For further details refer ILAM shellac record number: CR1099
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1956-00-00
Mutombo ko saye
- Authors: Group of 7 Luba men and 1 woman , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Luba-Lulua , Luba (African people) , Cultural anthropology , Luba-Lulua language , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Kabongo f-cg
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137831 , vital:37564 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR039-12
- Description: The player sat on the box drum, and raised or lowered the pitch by pressing his heels on the membrane, whilst beating it. The Fwila danced with fresh leaves and twigs worn round the waist. Fwila dance song with 1 smaill goblet drum, closed, pinned, hand beaten, and 1 box drum, hand beaten and tapped on side.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Mundele Kumputu Kongia Bedi
- Authors: Kimbanja Timote Kimbumbu , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-07-08
- Subjects: Popular music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of the Congo Zaire f-cg
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/273807 , vital:54852 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , TP0963-XYZT4298
- Description: Indigenous music
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-07-08
Mukwenu wadima madima
- Authors: Mwenda Jean Bosco , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1956-00-00
- 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: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/215493 , vital:48065 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , CR1156 , Research no.CO41
- Description: For further details refer ILAM shellac record number: CR1156
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1956-00-00
Fila II
- Authors: Luba men , performer not specified , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk Music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo city not specified f-cg
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/390624 , vital:68569 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , AC0802-F1Q5
- Description: Indigenous music
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Eyi nambela yakwalwena
- Authors: French Chikunyi and group of Lunda men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Ruund (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Mwinilunga f-za
- Language: Lunda , Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183017 , vital:43903 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR179-17
- Description: Chief Nambela's councillor was calling his children to go along home with him to the next district of Baluvale at the head of the Zambesi river. The rhythm struck on the bottle is the same familiar pattern // 1,2,3,1-2,1,2,1-2 // found all through the southern Congo. Sikinta dance with bootle struck with 6" nail
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Chibemba
- Authors: Kayoka Ladislaus , Kapungo Isidore and Beya Marcel , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1952
- 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/10962/390201 , vital:68525 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , AC0792-F1O2
- Description: Indigenous music
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Mading'a
- Authors: Ngalula Esitele , four Kasni women at Mufulira Mine , composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk Music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia city not specified f-za
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/375147 , vital:66866 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , AC0463-C3Q8
- Description: Indigenous music
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949
Muzengalenge wetu munyine
- Authors: Group of Luba soldiers , Performer not specified , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1952
- 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/10962/322314 , vital:60548 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , TP2967-XYZ7148
- Description: Indigenous music
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Kabamba
- Authors: Kalonda Leonard and two friends , performer not specified , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1952
- 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/10962/390047 , vital:68509 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , AC0786-F1N6
- Description: Indigenous music
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Chipwidi we yo
- Authors: Lulua women at Roan Antelope Mine , performer not specified , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk Music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia city not specified f-za
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/377546 , vital:67128 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , AC0503-C4C7
- Description: Indigenous music
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949
Namanyonga
- Authors: Trido, Ngoyi , Isak, Baya , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-07-05
- Subjects: Popular music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of the Congo Zaire f-cg
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/273186 , vital:54782 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , TP0951-XYZT4284
- Description: Indigenous music
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-07-05