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Yo moko osali mabe

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Mjiva phambele

Ntaba Zikude

Bolelela Ramonogeng (Tell Ramonogeng)

Wemithi Masogo uya wutala lonjani

Intombi zegoli zilalemagenwane

Intombi zegoli zilalemagenwane (The girls of Johannesburg are immoral)

M' Sodomo (Sodom was burnt)

  • Authors: Boys of Chief Mwasi's village , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Kasungu f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159565 , vital:40312 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR095-02
  • Description: "The headquaters of our dance team are here at Gwero and we are going to sing the song Sodom", was the introduction by the young leader. "There was a fire in Sodom." This has been a popular dance since 1927 or thereabouts. The dancers alternately sing openly and sing through their Lipenga horns. How the subject of Sodom and its destruction came to be chosen as a dance motif is a mystery. Maganda dance (Part 1) with 12 Malipenga singing horns.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Ozani muone kuwala (Come and see the glory)

  • Authors: Samkani Mponela , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dowa f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159051 , vital:40254 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR094-23
  • Description: This style of dancing is most popular in the Dowa district, where most large villages, they say, have their own groups of enthusiasts. "Come and see the glory of these boys". Not the European accent on the ultimate syllable. "muone kuwala", instead of the normal "mu'one kuw'ala". This may well spring from the fact that the Malipenga dance and its dance songs originated with military drilling as performed by the Kings African Rifles and the Nyasaland police. Mujanda dance with Malipenga singing horns.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Wemithi Masogo uya wutala lonjani (Wemithi Masogo is going to have a baby)

  • Authors: Group of 9 Swazi men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Eswatini Pigg's Peak f-sq
  • Language: Swati
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152584 , vital:39312 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR070-09
  • Description: Song sung when working with picks. "Wemithi Masogo is going to have a baby and we do not know what sort of thing she is going to produce." It would appear that Wemithi Masogo was no better that she ought to be and the parternity of her coming child was in doubt. Work song.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Kondo Wowo Sote

Mutoto wa mashikini

Mamwana Kufiki munda

Napolo

  • Authors: Kalino and friends , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1957-07-10
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Chingola f-cg
  • Language: Yao
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/240058 , vital:50794 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT482-L103 , Research no. L2P6
  • Description: Topical song with 1 accordion and 1 drum accompaniment about a big snake which bit a number of people in Malawi.
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  • Date Issued: 1957-07-10

Tsina

Ndiboleke ingubo ndabate ndiyagodola

  • Authors: Citaumvano, Nomaswiti , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1957-05-21
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Lusikisiki f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/228252 , vital:49537 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT420-L41 , Research no. L1S12
  • Description: A topical song, played on guitar, about someone asking to borrow a blanket because he/she is cold.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957-05-21

Banana bana Kayata

  • Authors: Group of Luvale men , 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 Kalawo f-za
  • Language: Mbunda , Subiya , Luvale , Luchazi , Chokwe
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184162 , vital:44179 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR184-09
  • Description: The friction drum is a simple membrane drum with the lower end open. A stick is pierced through a hole in the centre of the membrane and hangs inside the body of the drum being suitably attached to the membrane by small cross pieces pierced through the stick itself. The player usually sits on the ground with the drum resting on his legs, the open end towards his body. Having moistered his hands (or sometimes a cloth) with water he sets the membrane in vibration by the friction of his hands pulling the stick downwards towards him. In this way a roaring sound is made and rhythms produced by alternating the stroke between the two hands. It is essential to keep the two hands wet, water having the same effect as resin on a violin bow. Drinking song with 1 Pwita friction drum and percussion
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  • Date Issued: 1957

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