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Piroena eo ke e bireng (The language I speak)

- Relechate Ntsolo and Jacquot Mokete, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Relechate Ntsolo and Jacquot Mokete , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Berea f-lo
  • Language: Sotho
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/161002 , vital:40579 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0101-04
  • Description: "This language I speak, you speak without knowing it. In the battle of tongues, I should have been a lawyer. The language which is widely understood. You should have made holes in the mountains, so that I could go in and see the country between Natal and Aooeng. And the land between Winburg and Bloemfontein." "Aooeng" means 'the place where people say Aooeng'. i.e. the Eastern Free State, a reference to their mode of speech or dialect. Walking song.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Musengu

- Murira, Madzikununga, Muzengedza and Madero, Hugh Tracey

Nyamulosa chimbo cha Gotosa (The song Gotosa, the Mondoro)

- Murira, Madzikununga, Muzengedza and Madero, Hugh Tracey

Sakubona mtwan'ami (Good-day, my child)

- Timoti Dhlamini and "The Try Singers", Hugh Tracey

Kanakazi Kayaya mbebeweta pamulomo (The unfaithful wife talks too much)

- Smart Chigwamba and group of 5 Tumbuka men, Hugh Tracey

Nafwaya fauya cibamu candi (Looking for my girl))

- Dyson Simwinga and Bemba men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Dyson Simwinga and Bemba men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Zambia , Field recordings , Folk songs, Bemba , Bemba (African people) , Africa Zambia Mufulira Copper Mine f-za
  • Language: Bemba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151689 , vital:39160 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR065-02
  • Description: "I went to look for my girl, but they told me she had gone to the beer-hall. So I put on my best suit and took my bicycle called "Hummer sports" and went to the beer-hall to look for her. But I found her drinking with her friends and when they saw me, they put on dark glasses. "She came up to me and said "give me a kiss", but I refused saying: "You have accepted beer from these other men." Love song with guitar.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957

Neyo

- Mongika and Mangbele men and women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Mongika and Mangbele men and women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Kusu (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Gombari f-cg
  • Language: Mangbetu
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168964 , vital:41665 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0128-11
  • Description: Mongika is the present Chief of the Mangbele. He and his two wives wore headdresses made of the scarlet tail feathers of the Congo parrot, a mark of distinction in this area. In this region on the northern edge of the great tropical forest large trees enable the people to make slit drums of many different shapes and sizes. Membranes for the ordinary kind of African drums are rare as antelopes are not easily found in the forest. The slit drums are therefore the more popular instruments for accompanying dances. Topical song with two wooden pod shaped slit drums, two cylindrical wooden slit drums, two basket rattles, two metal bells.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1952
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