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Folk music--Africa

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Ambikanire une (Listen to me)

- Wodwala Seleman and 5 Yao men, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Wodwala Seleman and 5 Yao men , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1958
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Yao (African people) , Arts, Malawi , Folk music , Africa Malawi Salima, Central Nyasaland f-mw
Language: Yao
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154676 , vital:39763 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR083-01
Description: The song started in Yao and ended in Chewa. A song sung by the boys when they are alone in the veld after their circumcission to keep away lions at night. (The part of the song so sung by the initiates is in Arabic). Initiation of Boys.
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Date Issued: 1958

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Ambila baBemba na baLamba

- Group of Lulua soilders and women, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Group of Lulua soilders and women , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1952
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Luluabourg f-rh
Language: Luba
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/182200 , vital:43809 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR178-03
Description: "Go! Bemba and Lamba people of the Copper Belt." The musical formula for the songs which accompany the Marings dance can be clearly distinguished in this recording. The dance itself was not witnessed at the time of recording.Maringa dance with Chisanzhi Mbira, two pairs of rattles, basket rattle, singing gourd bottle and clapping
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1952

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Ambila baBemba na baLamba

- Group of Lulua soldiers and women, Composer unknown, Tracey, Hugh

Authors: Group of Lulua soldiers and women , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
Date: 1952-02-06
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of the Congo Lubumbashi f-cg
Language: Luba-Lulua
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/215429 , vital:48057 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT277-F33 , Research no. F1V3
Description: Maringa dance with Chisanzhi Mbira, two pairs of rattles, basket rattle, singing gourd bottle and clapping accompaniment.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1952-02-06

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Ambiwa

- Mashawa, Fabiao Dingani, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Authors: Mashawa, Fabiao Dingani , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
Date: 1955-10-11
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Macia f-mz
Language: Gitonga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/226675 , vital:49362 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT371-J22 , Research no. H1R12a
Description: Indigenous self delectative folk song with singing accompanied by a mbira.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1955-10-11

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Amen

- Lumko Choir, Composer not specified, Huwiler, Kurt, Dargie, Dave

Authors: Lumko Choir , Composer not specified , Huwiler, Kurt , Dargie, Dave
Date: 1978-01-08
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Mount Ayliff f-sa
Language: Xhosa
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/255153 , vital:52554 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DD008-02
Description: Indigenous music, Choral music.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1978-01-08

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Amen

- Group Composition, Damara Folk, Dargie, Dave

Authors: Group Composition , Damara Folk , Dargie, Dave
Date: 1981-11-21
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Nambia Gobabis f-sx
Language: Khoekhoe, Nama (Namibia)
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/264170 , vital:53706 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DD033-22
Description: Indigenous music.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1981-11-21

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Amen

- Lumko Choir, Composer not specified, Huwiler, Kurt, Dargie, Dave

Authors: Lumko Choir , Composer not specified , Huwiler, Kurt , Dargie, Dave
Date: 1978-01-08
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Mount Ayliff f-sa
Language: Xhosa
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/254823 , vital:52519 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DD006-20
Description: Indigenous music, Choral music.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1978-01-08

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Amen

- Choir, Not specified, Huwiler, Kurt, Dargie, Dave

Authors: Choir , Not specified , Huwiler, Kurt , Dargie, Dave
Date: 1978-01-08
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Mount Ayliff f-sa
Language: Xhosa
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/254523 , vital:52484 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DD006-03
Description: Indigenous music, Choral music.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1978-01-08

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Amen loof die naam van die Heer

- Composer Not Specified, Epukiro Folk, Dargie, Dave

Authors: Composer Not Specified , Epukiro Folk , Dargie, Dave
Date: 1981-05-02
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Nambia Epukiro f-sx
Language: Afrikaans
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/262079 , vital:53479 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DD031-08
Description: Indigenous music, Church Songs.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1981-05-02

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Amenya mwana (Mother of child)

- Four Lomwe song, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Four Lomwe song , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1958
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Lomwe (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mlange f-mw
Language: Lomwe
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160734 , vital:40508 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR098-19
Description: This song appears to be influenced by European teaching. The dirty must reflect the inevitable emotions of an ill-matched couple and the husband's rebellion. Sung no doubt only by men in the village. "Mother of child, get out of the house and take your child in case I should throw him out like a worthless thing. Party song.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1958

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Ameta mpala wamaliro (Shaving the head after a funeral)

- Gezani Mwale, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Gezani Mwale , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1958
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dowa District, Central Nyasaland f-mw
Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154056 , vital:39558 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR079-11
Description: "He shaves his head after the funeral. The scissors are broken, he borrowed them. The scissors are broken, come and see, come and see. Borrowed scissors, broken." All relatives, both male and female, shave their hair off their heads after the funeral of a relative, although this CHEWA custom is not now observed by younger people. Self delectative song with Sansi.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1958

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Ametela metela

- Kaphatikila Kanyingi, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Kaphatikila Kanyingi , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1950
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Songs, Chewa , Chewa (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Chinteche f-mw
Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/186630 , vital:44519 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR191-19
Description: The one stringed lute has a wooden bowl for a resonator with a sound hole on its side. The string is strained with a peg but final tuning is achieved by means of a straining string. It is bowed by a reed or bamboo bow with spittle and the fingering is achieved by gripping the string with the inside of the second segment of the second and fouth fingers. Self delecatative song with Karigo one stringed bowed Lute
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1950

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Amina

- Namirembe Cathedral Choir, da Palestrina, G. P., Tracey, Hugh

Authors: Namirembe Cathedral Choir , da Palestrina, G. P. , Tracey, Hugh
Date: 1950-08-31
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Kampala f-ug
Language: Ganda
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/212838 , vital:47769 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT203-D117 , Research no. D5W8
Description: Unaccompanied Ganda religious song.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1950-08-31

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Aminoiye

- Mukuma, Mushipi, Composer unknown, Tracey, Hugh

Authors: Mukuma, Mushipi , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
Date: 1957-07-25
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic Katanga f-cg
Language: Luvale
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/243431 , vital:51151 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT515-L137 , Research no. L3A8b
Description: Self delectative song accompanied by the Muchapata Likembe mbira box and mirliton.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957-07-25

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Aminoiye

- Mushipi Mukuma, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Mushipi Mukuma , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luvale (African people) , Folk music , Angola , Congo (Democratic Republic) , Africa Angola Luhakano f-ao
Language: Luvale/Chokwe
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137186 , vital:37496 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR036-09
Description: Simple song in typical Luvale style of a kind which must have been sung for centuries throughhout Africa. The mbira or Likembe accompaniment of the second is interesting for its cross rhythm. The scale of the instrument is hexatonic in the lower part of the scale but may well be heptatonic if one extra note in the upper octave is taken in to account. Scale of instrument as follows:- 672, 592, 544, 488, 416, 376, 336, 312, 268, 244. Self-delectative song with Muchapata Likembe Mbira box and mirliton
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Amtheka cingondo (They have put the clay hat on)

- Thawani Mwale, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Thawani Mwale , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1958
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mulvi, Salima District, Central Nyasaland f-mw
Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153365 , vital:39442 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR076-07
Description: At the initiation of girls after the girls have been clothed and are taken to the place of initiation the woman officiating puts a heavy clay hat on the girls' head. The girls sing "They have put on the clay hats. Yours, my friend, suits you very well." Initiation song with Bangwe board.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1958

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Amulungu Acifundi

- Sakala, Kamiloni, Nsenga boys, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Authors: Sakala, Kamiloni , Nsenga boys , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
Date: 1949-08-23
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Not specified f-za
Language: Nyanja
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/209070 , vital:47339 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT085-C101 , Research no. C4P9
Description: Not specified.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1949-08-23

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Amuna ali kwanga (The husband I have)

- Small girls, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Small girls , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1958
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Ncheu f-mw
Language: Nyanja/Chewa
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160066 , vital:40378 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR096-11
Description: African men are still reluctant to share in the agricultural work of the village. "The husband I have is good at eating, but when I ask him to work in the garden he is always sick." Girls song with clapping.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1958

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Amunditole mu Lusaka

- Simuntanga, Jacobs, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Authors: Simuntanga, Jacobs , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
Date: 1949-08-23
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Not specified f-za
Language: Tonga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/208980 , vital:47329 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT084-C100 , Research no. C4P3
Description: Not specified.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1949-08-23

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Amuno nasayo musonro

- Sivale, William, Tracey, Hugh

Authors: Sivale, William , Tracey, Hugh
Date: 1957-07-18
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia City not specified f-za
Language: Nyamwanga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/242218 , vital:51013 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT504-L126 , Research no. L2X6
Description: A topical song accompanied by guitar.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957-07-18

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