Ba Mari' tukasambe (Mary let us go to wash ourselves)
- Adamsoni Kabamba, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Adamsoni Kabamba , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Instrumental music , Mbira music , Africa Zambia Serenje f-za
- Language: Lala
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134675 , vital:37190 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0021-06
- Description: "Mary let us go to wash ourselves at the river. On earth we live but to die. Mary join in the singing because we both know we live but to die. There are some beautiful peple on earth; so Mary sing with me this song." Self-delectative song with Kankowele mbira, fan-shaped, with external resonator.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Adamsoni Kabamba , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Instrumental music , Mbira music , Africa Zambia Serenje f-za
- Language: Lala
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134675 , vital:37190 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0021-06
- Description: "Mary let us go to wash ourselves at the river. On earth we live but to die. Mary join in the singing because we both know we live but to die. There are some beautiful peple on earth; so Mary sing with me this song." Self-delectative song with Kankowele mbira, fan-shaped, with external resonator.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ba Serenje balokulila bawishibo (Serenje is weeping over his father)
- Adamsoni Kabamba, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Adamsoni Kabamba , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Instrumental music , Mbira music , Africa Zambia Serenje f-za
- Language: Lala
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134640 , vital:37186 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0021-04
- Description: "When Serenje's father died, he mourned for a long time. "Toranchi" has taught me how to shoot on the rifle range, so, now I have learnt to shoot, I may be going to the war, and do not know if I will ever come back." This is a piece of fantasy, for in fact, Mr. Torrence has not taught him to shoot, but it is an oblique form of flattery and praise. He is fond of Mr. Torrence who is assistant African personnel manager, and that is why he sings about him in this way. The fact that Mr. Torrence was an officer in the King's African Rifles during the war may have contributed to the singer's hero worship of him. Self-delectative song with Kankowele fan-shaped mbira with external resonator.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Adamsoni Kabamba , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Instrumental music , Mbira music , Africa Zambia Serenje f-za
- Language: Lala
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134640 , vital:37186 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0021-04
- Description: "When Serenje's father died, he mourned for a long time. "Toranchi" has taught me how to shoot on the rifle range, so, now I have learnt to shoot, I may be going to the war, and do not know if I will ever come back." This is a piece of fantasy, for in fact, Mr. Torrence has not taught him to shoot, but it is an oblique form of flattery and praise. He is fond of Mr. Torrence who is assistant African personnel manager, and that is why he sings about him in this way. The fact that Mr. Torrence was an officer in the King's African Rifles during the war may have contributed to the singer's hero worship of him. Self-delectative song with Kankowele fan-shaped mbira with external resonator.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Bantamba fituka (The magician)
- Adamsoni Kabamba, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Adamsoni Kabamba , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Instrumental music , Mbira music , Africa Zambia Serenje f-za
- Language: Lala
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134666 , vital:37188 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0021-05
- Description: A certain wizard, so the story goes, once caught a secretary bird and brought it into his house alive in order to use it for magical purposes and for killing other people. Now, this man soon died and left this secretary birf behind. So he sings this song to mock who use magic because they will surely die, just the same. :There are foolish men who leave their families unprovided for while they go off with prostitutes." "There is sadness which envelopes a child when its parents die, and a sadness also which envelopes a parent when its child dies." Self-delectative song with Kankowele fan-shaped mbira, mbira with external resonator.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Adamsoni Kabamba , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Instrumental music , Mbira music , Africa Zambia Serenje f-za
- Language: Lala
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134666 , vital:37188 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0021-05
- Description: A certain wizard, so the story goes, once caught a secretary bird and brought it into his house alive in order to use it for magical purposes and for killing other people. Now, this man soon died and left this secretary birf behind. So he sings this song to mock who use magic because they will surely die, just the same. :There are foolish men who leave their families unprovided for while they go off with prostitutes." "There is sadness which envelopes a child when its parents die, and a sadness also which envelopes a parent when its child dies." Self-delectative song with Kankowele fan-shaped mbira, mbira with external resonator.
- 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
- 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
Kapidilai ikula-e (The great hill)
- Chibuye Matolopa, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Chibuye Matolopa , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Instrumental music , Mbira music , Africa Zambia Serenje f-za
- Language: Lala
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134584 , vital:37181 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0021-02
- Description: ""Kapidikai ikulae pambala eka chirikire kunkhondo." "The great hill, the great hill beyond shields me from the war." First composed and sung during the Great War 11. Self-delectative song with Kankowele fan shaped mbira
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Chibuye Matolopa , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Instrumental music , Mbira music , Africa Zambia Serenje f-za
- Language: Lala
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134584 , vital:37181 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0021-02
- Description: ""Kapidikai ikulae pambala eka chirikire kunkhondo." "The great hill, the great hill beyond shields me from the war." First composed and sung during the Great War 11. Self-delectative song with Kankowele fan shaped mbira
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Lala drum rhythms
- Safuke, Mwape and Kunda, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Safuke, Mwape and Kunda , 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/10962/134715 , vital:37193 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0021-08
- Description: This dance, they say, is done upon ant festive occasion. For Fwandoula dance, with 3 conical drums, hand beaten (Kumgulumi, Tiwira and Chirarira), with Nkonkonto stick and Misewe tin rattle. For Sai dance with 3 conical drums, hand-beaten, with 2 pairs of rattles.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Safuke, Mwape and Kunda , 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/10962/134715 , vital:37193 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0021-08
- Description: This dance, they say, is done upon ant festive occasion. For Fwandoula dance, with 3 conical drums, hand beaten (Kumgulumi, Tiwira and Chirarira), with Nkonkonto stick and Misewe tin rattle. For Sai dance with 3 conical drums, hand-beaten, with 2 pairs of rattles.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Lala drum rhythms
- Safuke, Mwape and Kunda, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Safuke, Mwape and Kunda , 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/10962/134724 , vital:37194 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0021-09
- Description: This dance, they say, is done upon ant festive occasion. Sai dance with 3 conical drums, hand-beaten, with 2 pairs of rattles.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Safuke, Mwape and Kunda , 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/10962/134724 , vital:37194 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0021-09
- Description: This dance, they say, is done upon ant festive occasion. Sai dance with 3 conical drums, hand-beaten, with 2 pairs of rattles.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Muyomba walila bukeni, mwebalasa inama (The hornbill is calling, wake up you hunters)
- Chibuye Matolopa, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Chibuye Matolopa , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Instrumental music , Africa Zambia Katanga f-za
- Language: Lala
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134542 , vital:37175 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0021-01
- Description: "The hornbill is calling, wake up you hunters!" "You who go out hunting in the bush, you must wake up and get ready, for the hornbill is calling and you have far to go.".
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Chibuye Matolopa , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Instrumental music , Africa Zambia Katanga f-za
- Language: Lala
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134542 , vital:37175 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0021-01
- Description: "The hornbill is calling, wake up you hunters!" "You who go out hunting in the bush, you must wake up and get ready, for the hornbill is calling and you have far to go.".
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ukutema nakubalile kubwaice (I began felling trees in my youth)
- Adamsoni Kabamba, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Adamsoni Kabamba , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Instrumental music , Mbira music , Africa Zambia Serenje f-za
- Language: Lala
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134700 , vital:37192 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0021-07
- Description: The Lala often take the work of tree-felling for others, as they are specially good at it. "I began felling trees in my youth, and did not have a son-in-law to help me (i.e. he had no daughter to be married). So I took my axe and did the work alone. People belonging to the "Sand" clan (totem) are clever, because they choose a specially large tree and worship there, considering it to be a great work of God." "There are women who despise those men who stay at home in the country, so let me go to the town to marry a wiser man." The tribe being matrilineal inherits through the female side. A son-in-law has to assist his wife's family-hence the reference to "no son-in-law to help him." Self-delectative song with Kankowele mbira, fan-shaped, with external resonator
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Adamsoni Kabamba , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Instrumental music , Mbira music , Africa Zambia Serenje f-za
- Language: Lala
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134700 , vital:37192 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0021-07
- Description: The Lala often take the work of tree-felling for others, as they are specially good at it. "I began felling trees in my youth, and did not have a son-in-law to help me (i.e. he had no daughter to be married). So I took my axe and did the work alone. People belonging to the "Sand" clan (totem) are clever, because they choose a specially large tree and worship there, considering it to be a great work of God." "There are women who despise those men who stay at home in the country, so let me go to the town to marry a wiser man." The tribe being matrilineal inherits through the female side. A son-in-law has to assist his wife's family-hence the reference to "no son-in-law to help him." Self-delectative song with Kankowele mbira, fan-shaped, with external resonator
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Wemuko ifwala mangapala (Father-in-law, father-in-law, do not kill me)
- Chibuye Matolopa, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Chibuye Matolopa , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Instrumental music , Mbira music , Africa Zambia Serenje f-za
- Language: Lala
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134615 , vital:37183 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0021-03
- Description: "Wemuko, wemuko, ifwala mangapala undipaira pamwana waangi ukufiala kulimilimo-we." "Father-in-law, father-in-law. Don't put on your rags, or kill me or my child. to create a child is work." The rags worn by diviners. Self-delectative song with Kankowele fan-shaped mbira
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Chibuye Matolopa , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Instrumental music , Mbira music , Africa Zambia Serenje f-za
- Language: Lala
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134615 , vital:37183 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0021-03
- Description: "Wemuko, wemuko, ifwala mangapala undipaira pamwana waangi ukufiala kulimilimo-we." "Father-in-law, father-in-law. Don't put on your rags, or kill me or my child. to create a child is work." The rags worn by diviners. Self-delectative song with Kankowele fan-shaped mbira
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
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