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Teohela Silatsatsi(Go down Silatsatsi)

- School girls of Qeme, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: School girls of Qeme , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Maseru f-lo
  • Language: Sotho
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/161821 , vital:40681 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0104-05
  • Description: This singing game is done in a circle, each girl kneeling with a stone in her hand. They beat their stones on the ground and in some cases hand them onto the next girl to their right in an anti-clockwise direction. This singing is also found among the Tswana. Singing game.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Zondelele (Come and mourn with me)

- Simakwenda, Hugh Tracey

Oyo oyo wanize

- The seven wives of the Chief, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: The seven wives of the Chief , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Malawi , Songs, Zulu , Zulu (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mzimba f-mw
  • Language: Zulu
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160907 , vital:40560 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR099-17
  • Description: The women, the members of the brides party depart and they wish the bride 'goodbye'. The song long associated with the Zulu wedding custom in Natal but separated by over 100 years and a thousand miles, show how persistent and nostalgic old songs can be in a strange land inhabited by African 'colonials'. Wedding song.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Bana twai musalemba

- Kayoka Ladislas and group of Luba men, Hugh Tracey

Arap Chepsiolei

- Malakwen Chepsaikut, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Malakwen Chepsaikut , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Mijikenda (African people) , Nandi (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Kapsabet f-ke
  • Language: Nandi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/176838 , vital:42764 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR164-03
  • Description: This lyre is strummed like a guitar with the right hand, the left hand stopping the five strings, like the Bongwe Zither of Nyasaland. This gave two chords. Notes 1, 3, and 5 and notes 2 and 4. One string, they said, was missing, the lower octave of No. 1. The scale was:- 308, 256, 232, 206, 180, (154) vs. Praise and topical song with Kipukandet 5 string lyre.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Nga, nga, nga, nda reka (Lift and drop)

- Bauleni Zhuau, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Bauleni Zhuau , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Chipwembwe, Fort Herald f-rh
  • Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155829 , vital:39921 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR088-03
  • Description: The drum leader was not satisfied with the pitch of the drums and stopped playing to adjust the amount of wax on two of the drums and then started again while the girls continued to sing. The wax is made of caster oil beans pounded up, it sticks onto the drum heads in spite of the continual beating of sticks and hands. The addition of wax or paste lowers the note of the drum and the removal of quite a small amount of wax raises the note. Thus the drums can be tunned with reasonable accuracy. The players brought more paste on the drum heads than they needed, no doubt because a certain amount is lost in playing and then tuned by removing a certain amount on each head with a curved piece of tin shaped like a spoon. Note the stress upon the final syllable of Reka NdaReka. Likhuba dance with 9 tuned drums.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Swaluu-Alah manyaana bilbay yinatil

- Watoto wa Madrasa el-Hasanain, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Watoto wa Madrasa el-Hasanain , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Tanzania , Swahili-speaking peoples , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Dar-es-Salaam f-tz
  • Language: Swahili
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179496 , vital:43071 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR169-13
  • Description: All items on this disc are included as example of the African adoptation of Arabic styles of music on the coast. This choice is composed of 12 young Swahili boys with a man soloist (el-ustadh) and three teachers playing the "duff" tambourines. Arabic and the lingua franca, Swahili, are part of the inheritance of all the coast dwellers and on the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba. It is interesting to note how easily these African born Swahili children appear to adopt Arabic music with far greater facility that the efforts of most African children to sing European songs Kasida, Moslem Religious chants, with 3 Duff frame drums (tambourines).
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Babe kasenankomo (Father has no cattle left)

- Masitela with 2 boys and 3 girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Masitela with 2 boys and 3 girls , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Ewatini Lobamba, Mbabane f-sq
  • Language: Swati
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152330 , vital:39247 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR068-18
  • Description: A "reed ceremony" song, sung for the Mhlanga or reed ceremony. The words of the song imply that father has gone to court over various cases so often that all his cattle have been attacked. The reed ceremony is carried out when the girls of the tribe all go together to the reed beds to cut reeds for the palings of the villages which are a feature of the Swazi Kraals. Mhlanga song for the reed ceremony.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Tsiku limodzi (One day)

- S. R. Chitalo and De Ndirande Pitch Crooners, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: S. R. Chitalo and De Ndirande Pitch Crooners , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Blantyre f-rh
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa/Chichewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155515 , vital:39890 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR086-06
  • Description: A mother was beating her child for disobedience. I was just passing by when I saw this happen and asked her why she was whipping the child and she told me that was the best way of teaching a child. I learnt a lesson and from now on my children will learn in this way. The melody is believed have been copied from Johannesburg recordings. Topical song with guitar.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Kwathu kumangulu (At Mangulu, our country)

- Frank Nantibule, Hugh Tracey

Tisankhe lero

- Chewa girls at Mwase, Hugh Tracey

Mulavu

- S. Mondo, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: S. Mondo , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Soga (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Iganga f-ug
  • Language: Soga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171534 , vital:42088 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR142-05
  • Description: A certain Gombolola chief named Mulavu is said to have ordered his people to uproot the groundnuts and other crops of the people nearby. They naturally objected, and reported him first to the Saza county chief and then to the District Commissioner who severly reprimanded him. The tuning of the instrument was, 248, 220, 202, 174, 144, 130, 110, 101 but the order of the notes themselves on the instrument does not follow the sequence of the scale. Topical song, with Ntongoli 8 string lyre.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Msitso wokata 1st orchestral introduction (Ngodo of Regulo Mikumbi)

- Nguyaza, Chipendani, Zandamela, J, Chopi perfomers (Performer), Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Nguyaza, Chipendani , Zandamela, J , Chopi perfomers (Performer) , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1955
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Musical instruments--Africa , Instrumental music , Africa Mozambique Inharrime f-mz
  • Language: Chopi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/131701 , vital:36736 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR001-01 , Field Card no. HIJ-1
  • Description: Regulo Mikumbi and his people are considered to be eastern Chopi as their district lies to the east of the Inharrime River. The old chief Mikumbi who died a few years ago was said to be over 120 years old at the time of his death. The leader of this Timbila orchestra was a western Chopi as his name Zandamela would indicate. The recording of this Ngodo was made under difficult conditions, being constantly interrupted by high wind and rain. Six movements from the Ngodo Xylophone Orchestral dance of Regulo Mikumbi with 8 Chilanzane (treble), 1 Debinda (bass) and 3 Gulu (double bass) xylophones and 2 rattles
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  • Date Issued: 1955

Cheptim

- Kipterer Arap Kenik with Kipsigis men and girls, Hugh Tracey

Dzombe Rija (My Grasshopper)

- Muzize Mware, Hugh Tracey

Mugasha 3

- Habib Bin Seliman, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Habib Bin Seliman , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Haya (African people) , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania / Uganda Kabale / Bukoba f-tz / f-ug
  • Language: Nyoro , Haya
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172359 , vital:42192 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR145-14
  • Description: The singer was word perfect throughout the whole recitation. He tells the locally well known legend of the Lake Victoria Nyanza. He is credited with being the best legend reciter in all the Haya country. Before Mugasha was born he is said to have threatened his mother that unless he was born quickly he would come out of the side of the womb. The instrument had to be returned before the end of the legend, as one or two strings were slightly flat. It was originally recorded in five sections. The Legend of spirit of the Lake, with Nanga trough Zither.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Chila twachinda naba matombo

- Children of the Mindola African school, Hugh Tracey

Kalulu nkulu wa bwalo (The Rabbit is Chief of the Court)

- J. W. Gwengwe and boys, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: J. W. Gwengwe and boys , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dedza f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160188 , vital:40417 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR097-03
  • Description: The dance is performed only at night by young men, the pricipal dancers themselves dancing naked, some with special masks called Nyau in the shape of an antelope, an elephant, and a lion, while some walk on stilts. The larger masks are usually carried by two men. Some observers have said that the dance is connected with fertility rites. Only males are permitted to participate and women can only observe from a distance. The dance, they say is usually performed on bright moonlight nights. The gist of the song appears to refer to a familiar story which is told and sung in the district. "Rabbit is the chief of the court (of animals) Hopping, hopping. The rabbit was elected to be the chief." Dance song for Nyau dance with rhythmic clapping and struck iron (-12.16-).
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Kontae iya konta (Kontae)

- Stephen Tsotsi Kasumali and 2 friends, Hugh Tracey

Mafahlowana

- Fabiao Dingani Mashawa (Performer), Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey

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