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Hanzi bomu bomu

- Young Chewa men, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Hanzi bomu bomu. Kulowa, 1st movement

- Young Chewa men, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Young Chewa men , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Songs, Chewa , Chewa (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Kasungu f-mw
  • Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/187281 , vital:44595 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR192-07
  • Description: The singers explained "The 'Hanzi bomu bomu' song is our latest composition which is being sung all over the country. Please make sure you learn how to sing it." "Hanzi bomu bomu" means 'Hand bombs' or 'hand grenades.' This refers to the 1939-45 war. Many of the singers were in the K. A. R. (Kings African Rifles) but they had only a distant and hazy idea of the effect of explosives. Muganda dance with Malipenga singing horns (-11.13-) and 2 bass drums
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Harusi

- Ngayamiso, Kitunga, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Harusi

- Ngayamiso Kitunga, performer not specified, composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Harusi

- Ngayamiso, Kitunga, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Harusi I

- Ngayamiso Kitunga, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Ngayamiso Kitunga , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Zinza (African people) , Rundi (African people) , Nyamwezi (African people) , Folk songs, Rundi , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Tabora f-tz
  • Language: Nyamwezi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172914 , vital:42295 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR148-01
  • Description: Tunes played at weddings. The instrument was new and the notes not well hammered so the tone of the instrument was not as good as it might have been. Nevertheless the music is attractive. The tuning from left to right was:- 448, 372, 320, 244, 208, 168, 122, 244, 284, 336, 372, 416, 488 giving a heptatonic scale of:- 488, 448, 416, 372, 336, 320, 284, 244 vs. These items were recorded at Itetemia, the village of Chief N. S. Fundikira. Wedding tune, with Malimba Likembe.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Harusi II

- Ngayamiso Kitunga, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Ngayamiso Kitunga , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Zinza (African people) , Rundi (African people) , Nyamwezi (African people) , Folk songs, Rundi , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Tabora f-tz
  • Language: Nyamwezi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172923 , vital:42296 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR148-02
  • Description: Tunes played at weddings. The instrument was new and the notes not well hammered so the tone of the instrument was not as good as it might have been. Nevertheless the music is attractive. The tuning from left to right was:- 448, 372, 320, 244, 208, 168, 122, 244, 284, 336, 372, 416, 488 giving a heptatonic scale of:- 488, 448, 416, 372, 336, 320, 284, 244 vs. These items were recorded at Itetemia, the village of Chief N. S. Fundikira. Wedding tune, with Malimba Likembe.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Hayo ni maradhi (Chaupela mpenzi)

- Chipukizi Rumba, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Chipukizi Rumba , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Tanzania , Swahili-speaking peoples , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Mwanza f-tz
  • Language: Swahili
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179613 , vital:43124 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR170-07
  • Description: A typical local band from the African quarter of any Tanganyika townships of the early 1950's. Nobody plays quite in tune but that does not worry the audiences or more especially the players themselves. They pick up their melodies from each other and from gramphone records and a dozen or more variations of the same song can be found throughout the country. Swahili Rumbas with 2 Banjos, 1 Mandoline, 2 bass drums, 1 conical drum, laced, 2 kazoos, 2 whistles and a flute.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Hayo ni maradin

- Leader Abdala Ibrahim, Tracey, Hugh

Hayo ni maradin

- Leader Abdala Ibrahim, Tracey, Hugh

Hayo Siyakweli Rumba

- Shabani Abdullah Mwenkewa, Daressalaam Jazz Band, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Hee hawelugano Hiaa

- Senuyala, Maria, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Hee hawelugano hiaa

- Senuyala, Maria, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Hee Lawelugano hiaa

- Maria Semuyala, Hehe children, composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Hee! Lawelugano hiaa

- Maria Semuyala, Hehe women, composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Hee! Lawelungano hiaa

- Maria Semuyala with Hehe women, Hugh Tracey

Heheliwe

- Blantyre Secondary School Choir, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Heheliwe

- Boys and girls at Blantyre Secondary School, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Heheliwe

- E.M Gondwe, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Helele nani nzovela

- Mwanahasha with Hehe women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Mwanahasha with Hehe women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Chaga (African people) , Hehe (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Kalenga f-tz
  • Language: Hehe
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/174990 , vital:42528 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR157-05
  • Description: "Even if you divorce me and leave me alone, I will still be able to look after myself." Women songs, injuctions to young women upon getting married. In Africa the women must be increasingly independent of her fickle and self indulgent man. Kuduo dance song for wedding ceremonies with clapping..
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  • Date Issued: 1950
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