Atu
- Andre Boniface Wahamba and group of Chokwe men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Andre Boniface Wahamba and group of Chokwe men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Chokwe , Chokwe (African people) , Luvale (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Angola Villa Luzu f-ao
- Language: Chokwe , Luvale
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183301 , vital:43953 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR180-01
- Description: "So many people have been born, so many people have died. Now all my folk are finished. So who will keep me company when I die?" This song with its antiphonal call and answer is typical of the style of the majority of folk songs of the Chokwe heard on the mines. This kind of performance is most difficult to record effectively for several reasons. Chianda dance song woth Sangu rattles, leg rattles held in the hand and gourds on sticks
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Andre Boniface Wahamba and group of Chokwe men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Chokwe , Chokwe (African people) , Luvale (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Angola Villa Luzu f-ao
- Language: Chokwe , Luvale
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183301 , vital:43953 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR180-01
- Description: "So many people have been born, so many people have died. Now all my folk are finished. So who will keep me company when I die?" This song with its antiphonal call and answer is typical of the style of the majority of folk songs of the Chokwe heard on the mines. This kind of performance is most difficult to record effectively for several reasons. Chianda dance song woth Sangu rattles, leg rattles held in the hand and gourds on sticks
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Chitengi
- Andre Boniface Wahamba and group of Chokwe men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Andre Boniface Wahamba and group of Chokwe men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Chokwe , Chokwe (African people) , Luvale (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Angola Villa Luzu f-ao
- Language: Chokwe , Luvale
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183309 , vital:43954 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR180-02
- Description: "Black cloth may not be worn by a woman who is about to have a child, she may use any other coloured cloth but not black." Such simple sentences revealing local etiquette are quite enough to inspire a local dance song. The Chokwe are more renowned for their beautiful chip carving than for their music, much of it sung in organum. Chianda dance song woth Sangu rattles, leg rattles held in the hand and gourds on sticks
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Andre Boniface Wahamba and group of Chokwe men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Chokwe , Chokwe (African people) , Luvale (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Angola Villa Luzu f-ao
- Language: Chokwe , Luvale
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183309 , vital:43954 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR180-02
- Description: "Black cloth may not be worn by a woman who is about to have a child, she may use any other coloured cloth but not black." Such simple sentences revealing local etiquette are quite enough to inspire a local dance song. The Chokwe are more renowned for their beautiful chip carving than for their music, much of it sung in organum. Chianda dance song woth Sangu rattles, leg rattles held in the hand and gourds on sticks
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Chila twachinda naba matombo
- Children of the Mindola African school, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Children of the Mindola African school , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Ruund (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kazembe f-za
- Language: Lunda , Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/182913 , vital:43892 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR179-06
- Description: A song for Chief Kazembe, also used as a canoe song. These children demonstrate a typically Luunda organum style of singing. Canoe song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Children of the Mindola African school , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Ruund (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kazembe f-za
- Language: Lunda , Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/182913 , vital:43892 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR179-06
- Description: A song for Chief Kazembe, also used as a canoe song. These children demonstrate a typically Luunda organum style of singing. Canoe song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Na katingili na shikatingili
- Children of the Mindola African school, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Children of the Mindola African school , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Ruund (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kawambwa f-za
- Language: Lunda , Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/182927 , vital:43894 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR179-08
- Description: A story about two buck. Story song
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Children of the Mindola African school , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Ruund (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kawambwa f-za
- Language: Lunda , Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/182927 , vital:43894 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR179-08
- Description: A story about two buck. Story song
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Nse-nse tubatwalilile
- Children of the Mindola African school, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Children of the Mindola African school , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Ruund (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kawambwa f-za
- Language: Lunda , Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/182922 , vital:43893 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR179-07
- Description: A wedding song telling a young couple that if anyone came between them it would be entirely their own fault. Wedding song
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Children of the Mindola African school , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Ruund (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kawambwa f-za
- Language: Lunda , Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/182922 , vital:43893 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR179-07
- Description: A wedding song telling a young couple that if anyone came between them it would be entirely their own fault. Wedding song
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Tutole kantu panshi
- Children of the Mindola African school, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Children of the Mindola African school , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Ruund (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kazembe f-za
- Language: Lunda , Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/182900 , vital:43891 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR179-05
- Description: Song used in the olden days when taking the Chief about by canoe. Canoe song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Children of the Mindola African school , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Ruund (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kazembe f-za
- Language: Lunda , Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/182900 , vital:43891 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR179-05
- Description: Song used in the olden days when taking the Chief about by canoe. Canoe song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Mariana, Mariana
- Authors: Chokwe men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Chokwe , Chokwe (African people) , Luvale (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Angola Dilolo f-ao
- Language: Chokwe , Luvale
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183319 , vital:43956 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR180-03
- Description: A song typical of many Chokwe dance songs. The Chokwe live on both sides of the Congo-Angola border. Chianda dance with drums, 2 open conical drums, pegged 1 closed goblet drum
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Chokwe men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Chokwe , Chokwe (African people) , Luvale (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Angola Dilolo f-ao
- Language: Chokwe , Luvale
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183319 , vital:43956 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR180-03
- Description: A song typical of many Chokwe dance songs. The Chokwe live on both sides of the Congo-Angola border. Chianda dance with drums, 2 open conical drums, pegged 1 closed goblet drum
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Masaji
- Authors: Chokwe men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Chokwe , Chokwe (African people) , Luvale (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Angola Dilolo f-ao
- Language: Chokwe , Luvale
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183327 , vital:43966 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR180-04
- Description: The Chianda dance is probably danced at wakes and funerals. A good example of Chokwe organum singing-that is, singing in paralel. Two Chianda dances with, 2 open conical drums, pegged 1 closed goblet drum
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Chokwe men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Chokwe , Chokwe (African people) , Luvale (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Angola Dilolo f-ao
- Language: Chokwe , Luvale
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183327 , vital:43966 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR180-04
- Description: The Chianda dance is probably danced at wakes and funerals. A good example of Chokwe organum singing-that is, singing in paralel. Two Chianda dances with, 2 open conical drums, pegged 1 closed goblet drum
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Kufidi mpara bituta
- Eresina and Kasai women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Eresina and Kasai women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Kasai f-rh
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/181937 , vital:43782 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR177-03
- Description: The clapping rhythm is the same as in the previous item. "Do not be afraid of an angry face." Drinking song with two singing gourds.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Eresina and Kasai women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Kasai f-rh
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/181937 , vital:43782 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR177-03
- Description: The clapping rhythm is the same as in the previous item. "Do not be afraid of an angry face." Drinking song with two singing gourds.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
zapoke muchere uno
- Foch Manda, Tumbuka men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Foch Manda , Tumbuka men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Kasungu f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/185534 , vital:44395 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR189-17
- Description: A typical song from the Lundazi District which makes use of the local variety of yodeling and chorus. The recording was made in a hall which gives a false acoustic to the song which as a folk song should be heard in the open air. Chiparaparu dance song
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Foch Manda , Tumbuka men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Kasungu f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/185534 , vital:44395 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR189-17
- Description: A typical song from the Lundazi District which makes use of the local variety of yodeling and chorus. The recording was made in a hall which gives a false acoustic to the song which as a folk song should be heard in the open air. Chiparaparu dance song
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Eyi mwana kaloto
- French Chikunji and Luunda men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: French Chikunji and Luunda 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/10962/182940 , vital:43895 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR179-09
- Description: There was once a man, they say, who broke his cup when drinking tea. This folly was sufficiently serious to merit a song. The singers were employed on the Mufulira Copper Mine where this item was recorded. Topical song
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: French Chikunji and Luunda 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/10962/182940 , vital:43895 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR179-09
- Description: There was once a man, they say, who broke his cup when drinking tea. This folly was sufficiently serious to merit a song. The singers were employed on the Mufulira Copper Mine where this item was recorded. Topical song
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Eyi nambela yakwalwena
- French Chikunyi and group of Lunda men and women, Hugh Tracey
- 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
- 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
Udina kuzara ndowayami
- Gibson Zenzi with Luunda men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Gibson Zenzi with Luunda 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/10962/182877 , vital:43888 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR179-02
- Description: "My wife is shivering." A short phrase is quite sufficient upon which to hang the melody and rhythm for the local dance. The Luunda come to the mines of the Copperbelt in large numbers from their home in the north western districts of Northern Rhodesia. In common with many other African folk singers there is a gradual rise in pitch during this song. The empty bottles of different sizes are struck with light pieces of iron, such as 6" nails, or small bolts. Four Sikinta dance song with struck bottles
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Gibson Zenzi with Luunda 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/10962/182877 , vital:43888 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR179-02
- Description: "My wife is shivering." A short phrase is quite sufficient upon which to hang the melody and rhythm for the local dance. The Luunda come to the mines of the Copperbelt in large numbers from their home in the north western districts of Northern Rhodesia. In common with many other African folk singers there is a gradual rise in pitch during this song. The empty bottles of different sizes are struck with light pieces of iron, such as 6" nails, or small bolts. Four Sikinta dance song with struck bottles
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Mwa mwena dehe-ye-yele
- Gibson Zenzi with Luunda men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Gibson Zenzi with Luunda 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/10962/182895 , vital:43890 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR179-04
- Description: "All is quiet." Bottles are a favourite accompaniment for most tunes on the Copperbelt of Northern Rhodesia, simple, cheap, and effective for playing across rhythms. The chorus sings in organum. Four Sikinta dance song with struck bottles
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Gibson Zenzi with Luunda 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/10962/182895 , vital:43890 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR179-04
- Description: "All is quiet." Bottles are a favourite accompaniment for most tunes on the Copperbelt of Northern Rhodesia, simple, cheap, and effective for playing across rhythms. The chorus sings in organum. Four Sikinta dance song with struck bottles
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Mbanda wa Sikinta
- Gibson Zenzi with Luunda men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Gibson Zenzi with Luunda 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/10962/182886 , vital:43889 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR179-03
- Description: "The woman of the Sikinta." The Sinkinta dance is said to be the favourite Luunda dance of the present day (1952). This set of Sikinta dance tunes was recorded by young Luunda men who were working on the Roan Antelope Copper Mine. Four Sikinta dance song with struck bottles
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Gibson Zenzi with Luunda 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/10962/182886 , vital:43889 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR179-03
- Description: "The woman of the Sikinta." The Sinkinta dance is said to be the favourite Luunda dance of the present day (1952). This set of Sikinta dance tunes was recorded by young Luunda men who were working on the Roan Antelope Copper Mine. Four Sikinta dance song with struck bottles
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Mwanami waya mwiyawu
- Gibson Zenzi with Luunda men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Gibson Zenzi with Luunda 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/10962/182868 , vital:43887 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR179-01
- Description: "The child lost in the forest." In this part of Africa the whole countryside is covered with thick bush and trees up to 40 or 50 feet high. It would be particularly easy to lose oneself in this endless bush. Four Sikinta dance song with struck bottles
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Gibson Zenzi with Luunda 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/10962/182868 , vital:43887 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR179-01
- Description: "The child lost in the forest." In this part of Africa the whole countryside is covered with thick bush and trees up to 40 or 50 feet high. It would be particularly easy to lose oneself in this endless bush. Four Sikinta dance song with struck bottles
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Kia Mwangala kia yanamatumbe
- Group of 12 Luba men and women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Group of 12 Luba men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Luba-Lulua , Luba (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Kolwezi f-cg
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183958 , vital:44089 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR183-09
- Description: Drums. Kayanda - conical, open, pegged and weighted (-14.2-). Mitumbwe - goblet, pinned, closed and weighted (-14.52-). Ditumba - goblet, pinned, closed, mirliton (-14.51251-). The drums enter one after the other and end in the same way. The difference in tone between the weighted and the unweighted membranes of the drums can be clearly heard - the weighted drums being both lower in tone and also emitting a slightly slurred or portamento tone, while the unweighted drum sounds a clear hollow note. Katendo dance, with 2 Goblet drums, pegged, closed and hand beaten, and 1 conical drum, pegged, open, and hand beaten
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Group of 12 Luba men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Luba-Lulua , Luba (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Kolwezi f-cg
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183958 , vital:44089 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR183-09
- Description: Drums. Kayanda - conical, open, pegged and weighted (-14.2-). Mitumbwe - goblet, pinned, closed and weighted (-14.52-). Ditumba - goblet, pinned, closed, mirliton (-14.51251-). The drums enter one after the other and end in the same way. The difference in tone between the weighted and the unweighted membranes of the drums can be clearly heard - the weighted drums being both lower in tone and also emitting a slightly slurred or portamento tone, while the unweighted drum sounds a clear hollow note. Katendo dance, with 2 Goblet drums, pegged, closed and hand beaten, and 1 conical drum, pegged, open, and hand beaten
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Tuimba nyundo tuimbo tuwelela
- Group of 12 Luba men and women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Group of 12 Luba men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Luba-Lulua , Luba (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Kolwezi f-cg
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183950 , vital:44087 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR183-08
- Description: Drums. Kayanda - conical, open, pegged and weighted (-14.2-). Mitumbwe - goblet, pinned, closed and weighted (-14.52-). Ditumba - goblet, pinned, closed, mirliton (-14.51251-). The drums enter one after the other and end in the same way. The difference in tone between the weighted and the unweighted membranes of the drums can be clearly heard - the weighted drums being both lower in tone and also emitting a slightly slurred or portamento tone, while the unweighted drum sounds a clear hollow note. Katendo dance, with 2 Goblet drums, pegged, closed and hand beaten, and 1 conical drum, pegged, open, and hand beaten
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Group of 12 Luba men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Luba-Lulua , Luba (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Kolwezi f-cg
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183950 , vital:44087 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR183-08
- Description: Drums. Kayanda - conical, open, pegged and weighted (-14.2-). Mitumbwe - goblet, pinned, closed and weighted (-14.52-). Ditumba - goblet, pinned, closed, mirliton (-14.51251-). The drums enter one after the other and end in the same way. The difference in tone between the weighted and the unweighted membranes of the drums can be clearly heard - the weighted drums being both lower in tone and also emitting a slightly slurred or portamento tone, while the unweighted drum sounds a clear hollow note. Katendo dance, with 2 Goblet drums, pegged, closed and hand beaten, and 1 conical drum, pegged, open, and hand beaten
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Fila II
- Group of Luba Men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Group of Luba Men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Ruund (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Lubangule f-cg
- Language: Lunda , Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/182974 , vital:43899 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR179-13
- Description: These funeral songs are sung to cheer themselves up, but can also be sung at any time, they said. "While we sing we think of our own village." Recorded at the Kipushi Mine, Katanga. Fila dance song with 4 goblet drums and struck bottle
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Group of Luba Men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Ruund (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Lubangule f-cg
- Language: Lunda , Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/182974 , vital:43899 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR179-13
- Description: These funeral songs are sung to cheer themselves up, but can also be sung at any time, they said. "While we sing we think of our own village." Recorded at the Kipushi Mine, Katanga. Fila dance song with 4 goblet drums and struck bottle
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Fila I
- Group of Luba Men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Group of Luba Men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Ruund (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Lubangule f-cg
- Language: Lunda , Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/182965 , vital:43898 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR179-12
- Description: "We are here at Katanga, but we still remember you at home in our village." Recorded at the Kipushi Mine, Katanga. Fila dance song with 4 goblet drums and struck bottle
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Group of Luba Men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Ruund (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Lubangule f-cg
- Language: Lunda , Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/182965 , vital:43898 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR179-12
- Description: "We are here at Katanga, but we still remember you at home in our village." Recorded at the Kipushi Mine, Katanga. Fila dance song with 4 goblet drums and struck bottle
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952