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Kuma pumaingwe kuma

Jebani

Lengae

Izibongo zika Botha Sigcau

Puma endlini yam

"Luwalo-o-iuwale." (Start, o start the song)

  • Authors: Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Africa Zambia Serenje f-za
  • Language: Lala
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134304 , vital:37118 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0019-03
  • Description: "What are we doing? The White men have come. Their tents are over there beyond the Chiwombo river." This was first sung long ago, they say, when the Whites first came to their country about 1900, or a little earlier.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957

Amalume kuwayawa

Iduma lya gebuza (The gash-the cut)

Inkuntse

Iuwale-o-iuwale

Kuma pumaingwe kuma

  • Authors: Group of 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/10962/138625 , vital:37657 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR045-04
  • Description: The drummers first went away, gathered some swathes of grass in order to make a fire to heat drum membranes before playing and to bring them up to pitch. The wooden pegs were also hammered firmly into place to increase the tension on the drum heads. Masabe dance with 2 drums, hand beaten, pegged, 1 goblet (-14.5101-), 1 cylindrical.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957

Mbaya mwana wane bamutya cimbwe (Mbaya, my child, is called a hyena)

  • Authors: Ruben Tankadi Mbuluwundi and group of 5 Tumbuka men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Malawi , Tumbuka (African people)--Music , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Rumpi f-mw
  • Language: Tumbuka
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/140216 , vital:37849 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR054-06
  • Description: A man who was working away from home on the Copper Mines, had a girl sent to him to marry from his own village. But when she arrived she was so ugly he said: "Marry you, never! You look like a hyena!" So the girl went back and told her mother who rushed out of the house shouting to her husband in great hanger: "My child Mbaya has been called a hyena!" From what the Welfare officers say, it appears that this situation is a common experience on the Copperbelt where girls are frequently sent by their parents to get themselves married to their absent young men on the mines, with the same painful rebuff if not acceptable. Humorous song.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957

Nkhendannga uteka ukwenka zeza (I was walking and found the grass moving)

Sekelele tawona tengwa ipya

Tsholoza

  • Authors: Group of Xhosa/Gcaleka women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Willowvale f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136151 , vital:37343 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR028-11
  • Description: This song is sung, they said, by the women for the boys to dance at night. Women's dance for clapping at night iside the hut, with clapping.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957

Tulele mam'we we u chiku chimbundu (We sleep here / The night mist)

Elizabeta kanti Mutungameni

Essence ya Guitare

Inkanju

Wemba mtoto washio matata

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