Phoke yini engasehlukanisa nothando luka Kristu
- Authors: Somkhele Mission Choir , Dlamini, Alfred , Dargie, Dave , Khumalo, Innocent , Mthembu, Donatus
- Date: 1978
- Subjects: Folk music , Sacred music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Somkhele sa
- Language: IsiZulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/376213 , vital:66988 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DDC071a-04
- Description: Zulu church music workshop performance, unaccompanied.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1978
Sanctus
- Authors: Music workshop participants , Composer not specified , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1978
- Subjects: Folk music , Sacred music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Klerksdorp, North West Province sa
- Language: Setswana
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/426332 , vital:72343 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DDC014a-29
- Description: Church choral hymn, with singing accompanied by a rattle and drumming. Setswana Music Workshop performance
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1978
Morena ke mmoloki waka
- Authors: Choir , Ramakwa, Ana , Huwiler, Kurt , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1977-12-27
- 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/10962/253125 , vital:52314 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DD002-07
- Description: Indigenous music, Choral music.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1977-12-27
Nkosi siphe impilo entle nosindiso
- Authors: Choir , Mpotulo, L , Huwiler, Kurt , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1977-12-27
- 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/10962/253094 , vital:52311 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DD002-04
- Description: Indigenous music, Choral music.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1977-12-27
Credo
- Authors: Church music workshop participants , Elizabeth, OSF., Sister , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1977
- Subjects: Folk music , Sacred music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Bloemfontein sa
- Language: Sesotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/332356 , vital:61659 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DDC321b-06
- Description: New church music unaccompanied
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1977
Wozani kuJesu
- Authors: Music workshop participants , Sinyolo, A , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1977
- Subjects: Folk music , Sacred music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Kwanongoma sa
- Language: isiZulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/388957 , vital:68395 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DDC067a-03
- Description: Unaccompanied Zulu church choral hymn.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1977
Utshanibezwe ka Mnyanyiza
- Authors: Buthelezi Tribesman , Chief Gatsha Buthelezi , Composer not specified , Buthelezi ,M.
- Date: 1965
- Subjects: Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Johannessburg sa
- Language: Zulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/450475 , vital:74944 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Transcription Services, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , TS0956-T2841a
- Description: Indigenous folk song with singing
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1965
Ca a nelwe kolobe (Give the pig to no one)
- Authors: Young school girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Ngwaketse (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Botswana Kanye f-bs
- Language: Tswana/Ngwaketse
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162612 , vital:40955 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0108-13
- Description: This is a very well-known old Tswana song and can be heard in most districts and as far east as Saulspoort amongst the Kgatla. There is a little game left in the countryside and so the song must have been current in past generations when wild pig were plentiful. Song on returning from hunting.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Ku Mchisi kuli mtengo
- Authors: Visanza girls school choir , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1958-05-28
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Visanza f-mw
- Language: Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/252142 , vital:52205 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT592-M64 , Research no. M3H4
- Description: A nsita dance song for women about the water the women used to drink from the tree accompanied by clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958-05-28
Cimbwiwe (The Hyena)
- Authors: Chewa girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Vidzumo, Kasungu District, Central Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153455 , vital:39454 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR076-16
- Description: "The Hyena cried all night long. 'Mu-u-u it cried. The husband (with many wives) has failed us today Nyilonga is sick today (so he says) 'Mu-u-u' it cried. Pounding song with pestle and mortar.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Ku Mchisi kuli mtengo (At Mchisi there is a tree)
- Authors: Visanza girl's school choir , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Kotakota f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160007 , vital:40367 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR096-04
- Description: The Nkaodi tree is used as a love charm, the roots being taken soaked in water and drunk, mostly by women in the hope that their husbands will love them more. It would appear that this tune, used as a dance theme in the 1930's reflected the European influence of the period, with the stress incorrectly applied to the ultimate syllables. "At Mchisi there is a tree as a medicine. It is Nkaodi. Two Nsita dance songs for women with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Mai dale tawa tumbila (My darling went away)
- Authors: Agnes Maknwalo , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Malindi, Fort Herald f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155838 , vital:39922 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR088-04
- Description: This woman, Agnes Nzowa (who is a Zimba) was instructed to make contour ridges in her land so immediately her husband went off to Southern Rhodesia to avoid having to help her do the work. Likhuba dance song for young women with 2 tin rattles and clappers.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Munaona (You will see)
- Authors: Agnes Maknwalo , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Malindi, Fort Herald f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155856 , vital:39924 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR088-06
- Description: Likhuba dance song for young women with 2 tin rattles and clappers.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Ogo de zili ndi myendo (She has tattoo marks)
- Authors: C. Banda and G. Phiri , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Chadza village, Lilongwe, Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153652 , vital:39494 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR077-13
- Description: It is notable that the Chewa men of the region have the lowest opinion of their wives and vice versa, the custom which allows immediate marriage without bride price (Dibolo) or any other formality except what is locally called 'snatching' has clearly led to this state of affairs and whether recent or of long standing they could not say. Drinking song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Karikambo
- Authors: Masaria and Tonga women , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-06-22
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Zambezi Valley f-za
- Language: Tonga (Zambia)
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/232103 , vital:49961 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT453-L74 , Research no. L2E1b
- Description: A grinding song sung by women grinding corn on their stone hut.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-06-22
Ndime mukabaryibaryi basankwa
- Authors: Tonga woman and girls , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-06-22
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Zambezi Valley f-za
- Language: Tonga (Zambia)
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/232149 , vital:49966 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT453-L74 , Research no. L2E2a
- Description: A pounding song accompanied by the sound of pestle and mortar.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-06-22
Shembe yasenzana wa mai-we
- Authors: Small Tonga girls , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-06-22
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Zambezi Valley f-za
- Language: Tonga (Zambia)
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/233580 , vital:50105 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT454-L75 , Research no. L2E3b
- Description: A pounding song accompanied by sounds of the pestle and mortar and shushing.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-06-22
Indodemnyama (The dark man)
- Authors: Group of young Xhosa men , 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/10962/150403 , vital:38972 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR060-02
- Description: This group of "Amakwenkwe" (young unitiated men) all wrapped in red blankets, carrying sticks and wearing bead leggings, sang very well with gravity and intersity. They were all under 18 years of age. In the interval between the songs, they went off to fetch their sticks and struck them together during the song to mark the rhythm. Three group fighting song, with sticks and whistles.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Karikambo? (What shall I do?)
- Authors: Masaria and other Tonga women , 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/10962/138137 , vital:37597 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-02
- Description: This song were taken during the actual grinding of millet into meal outside a hut. The millet was a fine brown variety known as Munga in Rhodesia. This small work song is sometimes well known by everyone in the village and commonly used by the women as they grind their corn on the stone outside their hut, or they are individual compositions without a name and with few words to the lyrics. Grinding song accompanied by the sound of grindstone.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ndime mukabaryibaryi basankwa (All the young men like me)
- Authors: 2 Tonga women and 2 young girls , 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/10962/138189 , vital:37605 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-06
- Description: The grain being pounded was "munga", one of the millets which had first to be sieved in a basket, in order to get rid of the husks. It was poured into the mortar and water was added in order to prevent the powdery meal from flying up. Pounding song with sound of pestle and mortar.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957