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Chipuri (The singing gourd)

Chiterere chanakazi

Chitima wajumbo

Chitulu ledu mulomba shinko

Chitulu ledu mulomba shinko

Chiwawa mbuyu

Chiyabula

Chiyabula

Chiyuninzi chikete mukamba (The chiyuninzi owl is sitting on top of the Mukamba tree)

  • Authors: Samsoni Mwetwe and group of Tonga men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
  • Language: Tonga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138449 , vital:37638 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR043-10
  • Description: Drinking songs are among the most popular items in the men's repertory no doubt because so many idle hours are spent in this convivial pastime while the women work. Mayanza drinking song with 1 Gavanda drum, conical, single, open, pegged and 3 sticks tapped on the side of the drum. with Musuntu drum, cylindrical and clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Chombela

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

Cin'goma ca kubaruka

Dadashanga

Darabo wabandi mashef wetu Bekenga (They are putting up the flag for Chief Bakenga)

Deborah mntaka mama ngendi tshata nawe (Deborah, my dear, I would marry you had I the cattle)

Didiyela Monkalanga Semlangeni

  • Authors: Women of Kalana location , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Africa South Africa King Williams Town f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/149994 , vital:38928 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR059-15
  • Description: A diviner arrived in person but declined to sing with the women who were all sitting around on the floor of the hut, about 80 of them. The married women were more soberly dressed than the young unmarried ones and wore their headclothes in the more usual Xhosa 'pile' of cloth on the head, producing a large loose turban-like effect. Diviner's song, with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Dikumbi

  • Authors: Kalochi Malidi and friends , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Mbunda (African people)--Zambia , Luvale (African people) , Luchazi (African people) , Chokwe (African people) , Folk songs, Chokwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kabompo f-za
  • Language: Mbunda , Subiya , Luvale , Luchazi , Chokwe
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184180 , vital:44183 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR184-11
  • Description: The music of the region which included, a part of north western Northern Rhodesia, Southern Congo and Angola is quite distictive on account of the melodic structure and local sense of harmony. No Bantu other than the group of tribes which inhabit this small area care for Luchazi music, rejoicing it utterly as incomprehensible. The tuning of the Chisanzhi was:- 512, 424, 388, 348, 320,276, 256 vs. The array of notes or reeds was set out four a side and the sequence of the scale was alternate from left to right. The two outside reeds being the same pitch 512 vs. This arrangement is convenient for playing the runs as heard in this recording, with alternating thumbs. Nyakasanga dance song, with Chisanzhi Mbira, of 8 notes, wax weighted, double whistle
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Dilai Manga bulunda bwa tukalembo

  • Authors: Kabango Prospere and friends , Kabango Prospere , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Ensemble playing , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Katanga f-cg
  • Language: Luba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135654 , vital:37285 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR025-06
  • Description: The song is about a girl who felt her lover to marry a European. The deserted lover said: "She has done this because the European "Bwana" has more money than I." Lament with chisanzhi mbira with box and sound holes.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957

Dlalani (Name of a man)

  • Authors: 5 young Xhosa men and women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Africa South Africa Kentani f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/150741 , vital:39001 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR061-01
  • Description: The song is in praise of a man who has many lovers. This song and the following one were sung by a group of very beautifully dressed young people, the men dancers elegantly blanketed and beaded, the girls wearing pale ochre skirts with many rows of indigo blue braid and their headcloths of indingo blie wool were folded about their heads to form a tall tubular headdress rather like that of Queen Nefertiti. Before the recording started, but whilst the singers were "warming up" there was rather a curious little ceremony which forms part of the dance. One of the girls went around removing the men dancers's headcloths revealing their head bead ornaments. She put their headcloths on her own head, then returned to the line of girls and gave each girl her own young mans' headcloth, which was then tied round the girl's head. A stick specially decorated for dancing is called "Libunguza." Intolombe dance for young people with clapping.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957

Domba fire being lit with fire sticks

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