Luwendo
- Authors: Kasadi Celestin (Performer) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Kanyok (African people) , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Serenje f-cg
- Language: Kanyok
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133810 , vital:37020 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR015-02
- Description: Processional for a chief (ceremonial), with 2 Silimba xylophones, 1 Chondo slit drum, 3 goblet drums, weighted, pinned, closed, hand-beaten with mirlitons
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Muleka Mwene Yombwe (Name of a man)
- Authors: Ngoi Nono and Kabango Anastase with Luba men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Topical songs , Instrumental music , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Katanga f-cg
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134515 , vital:37170 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0020-08
- Description: The song is about a man called Muleka Mwene Yombwe who refused to allow his wife to go down to the river to fish. All the group's songs were songs they had heard in their own village and set to the guitar, and this is an excellent example. Topical song with 2 guitars and bottle, and small rattle.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Umgquzo (Where is my blanket? It is in the forest)
- Authors: Group of Mpondo women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Tabankulu f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136370 , vital:37369 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR030-03
- Description: This dance was performed by the married women standing in a circle. In the second part of the song they say: "The person who grinds the corn for the beer has a lot to say."- Some of the women had painted their faces with pale yellow ochre.- They wore pale blue blankets, were lavishly decorated with beads, mostly in sky blue and white, wore calf length beaded skirts, and a great many brass wire bracelets. In some cases, the typical headring was made of a leather strap (a dog's collar) studded with brass studs, edged and fringed with sky blue and white beads. Umgouzo girl's initiation dance.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957