I have done a film in the moon
- Authors: Siboza, Nelson , Montanas Brothers , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1958-04-02
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Nelspruit f-sa
- Language: English
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/250910 , vital:52069 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT577-M29 , Research no. M2I15
- Description: Party song accompanied by guitar.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958-04-02
Akanji gele maleza (Go and get a razor)
- Authors: Young Chewa boys (Under 20 years) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Visanza f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156923 , vital:40068 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR092-13
- Description: When a man dies they shave his head, hence the call for a razor when the moment of death seems near. "Go bring a razor. My father is dying and he he is crying too much today." The Nudewa drum was cylindrical with a rectangular hole cue in the side, with three feet. The Kachisi drum was conical, open ended. Ilala dance with two drums (Mudewa and Kachisi).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
I have done a film in the moon
- Authors: Nelson Siboza and the Montanas Brothers , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, English , Folk music , Africa South Africa Mataffin, Nelspruit, Northern Transvaal f-sa
- Language: English
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153259 , vital:39425 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR075-11
- Description: The English in which this song is couched is soemwhat original and unorthodox and so is the nostalgic and ambitious sentiment expressed with its reference to the make-believe world of the cinema-the most important single art from influence in the young lives of the performers. The citrus estate for whom they work and where they were born and brought up provides regular free cinema shows for their emplyoees. Party song with guitar.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Chimbo changa chasisa chinopa mutsa
- Authors: Shumba, January Munenga , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-08-08
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Kariba f-rh
- Language: Ndau
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/246373 , vital:51469 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT540-L161 , Research no. L3L7
- Description: A topical song accompanied by guitar.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-08-08
Munendo na munendo
- Authors: Members of the Christian mission Separatist Hymn , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-07-11
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Chingola f-za
- Language: Bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/240506 , vital:50842 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT486-L107 , Research no. L2Q15
- Description: A separatist hymn.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-07-11
Ba ku Mageledi fyo balila
- Authors: Lala men and women dancers , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-07-08
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Mufulira f-za
- Language: Lala-Bisa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/238989 , vital:50681 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT477-L98 , Research no. L2O12
- Description: Fwanda-fwanda dance song with 3 conical drums namely Akanono, Cimbulunge and Fwanda fwanda accompaniment.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-07-08
Fwanda-fwanda dance rhythm
- Authors: Lala men and women dancers , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-07-08
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Mufulira f-za
- Language: Lala-Bisa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/239022 , vital:50684 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT478-L99 , Research no. L2O13
- Description: Drum rhythm with 3 conical drums and 1 stick, whistles and rattle accompaniment.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-07-08
Maiyongwe
- Authors: Munyeme, Joseph , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-06-22
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Not specified f-za
- Language: Tonga (Zambia)
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/231963 , vital:49945 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT451-L72 , Research no. L2D8
- Description: A humourous song about flying eggs accompanied by kankowela mbira.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-06-22
Mamosi
- Authors: Group of Sotho men and women , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-05-28
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-sa
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/228750 , vital:49595 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT432-L53 , Research no. L1X5
- Description: A folk song, accompanied by clapping, asking Mamosi who will lead the singer down the mountain.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-05-28
Puma endlini yam
- Authors: Cape inkspots of Grahamstown , Ndumo, Irene Buyswa (Soloist) , Mpelho, Jury , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-05-02
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Grahamstown f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/227859 , vital:49494 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT388-L9 , Research no. L1D10b
- Description: A topical song accompanied by guitar.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-05-02
Thula ndivile
- Authors: Midnight Stars , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-04-29
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Grahamstown f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/227572 , vital:49461 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT383-L4 , Research no. L1C5
- Description: Not specified.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-04-29
Thula ndivile
- Authors: Midnight Stars , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-04-29
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Grahamstown f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/227563 , vital:49462 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT383-L4 , Research no. L1C5
- Description: Not specified.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-04-29
Ba ku Mageledi fyo balila
- Authors: Lala men and women (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Lala (African people) , Africa South Africa Serenje f-za
- Language: Lala
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133757 , vital:37013 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR014-11
- Description: Fwanda-fwanda dance song with 3 conical drums. 1) Akanono, 2)Cimbulunge, 3) Fwanda fwanda
- Full Text: false
- 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
- 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
Fwanda-fwanda dance rhythm
- Authors: Lyson Chibuye , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Instrumental music , Drum , Africa Zambia Serenje f-za
- Language: Lala
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134734 , vital:37195 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0021-10
- Description: For this recording, the drums performed alone without the singing, but on occasion with the whistles in the background provided by the dancers. Each of the 3 drums can be heard separately with its distinctive tune, the Akanono, the Cimbulunge, and the Fwanda-fwanda, each of which has a fairly complex rhythm and tone pattern to add to the whole resultant. It would appear that the Lala style of drumming are among the most evolved in N. Rhodesia. The stick, as in common in this region adds a percussive rhythm of its own and is beaten on to the body of one of the drums adding to the general welter of sound. The rattle was an improvisation, being a small rectangular tin containing pieces of metal and not a specially constructed article. Drum rhythm with 3 conical drums and 1 stick, whistles and rattle
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Iteyanye (Be prepared)
- Authors: Members of the christian Mission to Many lands , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Folk songs, Bemba , Drinking songs , Africa Zambia Chingola f-za
- Language: bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135335 , vital:37260 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0024-06
- Description: This hymn is based on Ecclesiastes, Chap. V, verse I (Hymn No. 51) This separatist African Christian Sect compose their own hymns. 2 separate Hymns.Tuning of the instrument as follows:- 368, 340, 308, 280, 252, 232, 210, 190, 170, 154, 140 vps. Mupukumo drinking song with Mumamba mbira bell.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Kwimbo layetu nqwe tulinqa (If we were singing at home, we would be singing better)
- Authors: Group of Lozi men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Lozi (African people) , Music--Zambia , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Mangu f-sa
- Language: Lozi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139709 , vital:37771 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR051-01
- Description: The gist of this song is much the same as that of the Jews who say: "How can we sing the songs of Zion in a strange land?" The tuning of this xylophone can be taken from a recording of each note before the item. Siyomboka dance song with 1 xylophone on a stand, 3 Milupa drums, conical and pegged.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Maiyongwe (The owl's eggs)
- Authors: Joseph Munyeme and friends , 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/10962/138261 , vital:37616 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-14
- Description: "The owl's eggs have flown up. Now has anyone else ever seen such a thing? Ho, ho, ho! I am the only person who has ever seen owl's eggs flying." Tuning of the instrument as follows:- 592, 528, 480, 432, 400, 356, 320, 296, 264, 240 vps. Humorous song with Kankowela mbira, with external resonator.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Mamosi
- Authors: Composer not specified , Group of Sotho men and women (Performers) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Sotho , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-za
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133965 , vital:37054 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR016-03
- Description: Party dance for men and women with clapping
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957