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Ahume bangu okonda kuyenda njinga nityale (My husband likes to roam)

  • Authors: Group of 12 Ngoni women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk songs , Songs, Nyanja , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Africa Zambia Fort Jameson f-za
  • Language: Nyanja , Nsenga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137455 , vital:37526 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR038-02
  • Description: "My husband likes to roam, so I shall break his bicycle." These women were Ngoni, but singing in Nsenga the language of their forebears. The singing of the Ngoni is especially interesting for the fact that they sing in 2 distinct styles, that of the Zulu (Ngoni), their father's tribe and that of their mother's tribes who were conquered by the Ngoni. Both strains are still clearly defined after nearly a century of integration. Women's party dance song with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Akaizari mbanda yasila (The Mbanda dance is finished)

Amai netini kone chamba

Amalume kuwayawa

Chawayawaya chipuwa

Chipungu

Chiterere chanakazi

Chundalala chawona mwezi (The moon was already up and the ants were gone)

  • Authors: Group of 4 Ngoni men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk songs , Songs, Nyanja , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Africa Zambia Fort Jameson f-za
  • Language: Nyanja , Nsenga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137483 , vital:37529 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR038-05
  • Description: The meaning behind the title is that the singer was too late to catch any flying ants, which usually swarm at dusk. By the time the moon was up, the ants had closed their bodies again and there were no ants to catch. Mbanda dance song with Malaza leg rattles
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Kakili kanowana

  • Authors: Jimu Zulu , Ledsoni Mwali , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Petauke f-za
  • Language: Nsenga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184455 , vital:44224 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR185-07
  • Description: It was explained that this song is sung "When we go out hunting for five days." In Northern Rhodesia especially, axe blades are often used as an accompaniment to song. This single blade is not however a good example. Men will knock the triangular blades out of their handles and tap them rhythmically. This particularly effective when a number of blades are used each producing its distinctive oitch of note which serves to accentuate the pattern of the crossed rhythm which are tapped out. The choice of harmonic intervals in this song is interesting. Hunting song, with two pieces of metal (1 axe blade)
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Kudanda ula

Kwaca milombe kalingilila (Now the sun is rising, I must go into the bush and cut trees)

  • Authors: Group of 4 Ngoni men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk songs , Songs, Nyanja , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Africa Zambia Fort Jameson f-za
  • Language: Nyanja , Nsenga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137492 , vital:37530 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR038-06
  • Description: The leg rattles are made out of the hard shell fruit of the Vitanta tree. It is an edible fruit which is picked when ripe, boiled in a pot and then the seeds are extracted through a small hole at the spot where the stem joins the fruit. It is then dried. A number of pin head size holes are made in the sides "to let the sound out" , they say, a second hole is made opposite the stem hole and the shell are then filled with canna seeds or small stones and strung onto sticks. Four rows of shells of about 6-8 each are needed to make one leg rattle which is attached to the calf of the leg by two straps, one below the knee and the other at the ankle. Mbanda dance song with Malaza leg rattles.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Liya kumuchoma wa kanga (Without Liya the dance is not a success)

Nabo aba Ngoni (Here are the Ngoni)

Nensonde nyama nyawonga

Ngagashupeke ngi mabunu (We are being trouble by Boers)

  • Authors: Group of 14 Ngoni men and chorus of women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk songs , Songs, Nyanja , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Africa Zambia Fort Jameson f-za
  • Language: Nyanja , Nsenga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137611 , vital:37542 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR038-12
  • Description: This was probably composed long ago when the people of Mzilikazi were being driven out of the Transvaal by the Boers in the middle of the nineteenth century. The singers agreed that this was a Ndebele song not of the Ngoni songs - but they said their languages were so similar that they had adopted it. Ngoma dance song with stamping and 1 pair of leg rattles.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Ngoma yalila mphela (The drum keeps on beating)

  • Authors: Group of 12 Ngoni women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk songs , Songs, Nyanja , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Africa Zambia Fort Jameson f-za
  • Language: Nyanja , Nsenga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137465 , vital:37527 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR038-03
  • Description: "My husband likes to roam, so I shall break his bicycle." These women were Ngoni, but singing in Nsenga the language of their forebears. The singing of the Ngoni is especially interesting for the fact that they sing in 2 distinct styles, that of the Zulu (Ngoni), their father's tribe and that of their mother's tribes who were conquered by the Ngoni. Both strains are still clearly defined after nearly a century of integration. Women's party dance song with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Nimwe kuya kusilya mukaniuzile amboni

  • Authors: Group of Nsenga women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Petauke f-za
  • Language: Nsenga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184399 , vital:44218 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR185-01
  • Description: The singers sang with a completely composed and sedate manner, and listened to the playback without a smile, but applauded themselves enthusiastically at the end as did the crowd who shouted "Very good." "You people of the watch tower, when you go across the river (Zambesi) go and ask them where my brother sleeps. The people of Satani have lied that people who died go to heaven (and do not stay here in the country of Petauke)." The idea that the souls of the dead leave the familiar earth and go to a far place 'heaven' is repugnant to some African people even though they may be Christian in name. They prefer the more homely resting place of the home country and its well known features. Lament
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Nyamwaritsa kurira ndopasa dza bwio (If you do well, I'll give you something good)

Nyasalandi kutari (Nyasaland is far away)

Sipenbela nkosi (We are waiting for the Chief)

  • Authors: Group of 14 Ngoni men and chorus of women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk songs , Songs, Nyanja , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Africa Zambia Fort Jameson f-za
  • Language: Nyanja , Nsenga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137620 , vital:37543 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR038-13
  • Description: This was probably composed long ago when the people of Mzilikazi were being driven out of the Transvaal by the Boers in the middle of the nineteenth century. The singers agreed that this was a Ndebele song not of the Ngoni songs - but they said their languages were so similar that they had adopted it. Ngoma dance song with stamping and 1 pair of leg rattles.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957
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