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Abu madzada

- Joseph Lidza, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Joseph Lidza , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Bangba (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Djugu f-cg
  • Language: Mombutu
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166680 , vital:41392 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0119-16
  • Description: The tuning of this little Nile valley harp is interesting, viz:- 396, 324, 292, 252, 224, vs. as it does not cover a complete octave which is more usual with other harps of this design. Presumably had there been a sixth string it would have been tuned to 198 the lower octave of the top note thus giving a pentatonic scale. Self delectation song with Bonguma horizontal, arched harp.
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  • Date Issued: 1952

Agapa

- Bandani and Mayogo men and women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Bandani and Mayogo men and women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Bangba (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Mayogo f-cg
  • Language: Mayogo/Bazo
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166511 , vital:41372 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0118-11
  • Description: "A man went on a journey and took the train." The railway has reached this spot far into the interior of the Congo. It is a narrow gauge (about 2' 6") line which runs from Aketi on one of the northern tributaries of the Congo eastwards to the edge of the great tropical Ituri forest, In common with many other parts of Africa local railway trains have struck the imagination and figure frequently in song. It is interesting to note the "Ai-yo-o" of the singer so often heard in guitar songs. Party song with a Kombi and 1 Gbe-Kombi Likembe.
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  • Date Issued: 1952

Akpadi Kaolisi

- Lili and Nebaliya and Yogo women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Lili and Nebaliya and Yogo women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Bangba (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Mayogo f-cg
  • Language: Mayogo/Bazo
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166570 , vital:41380 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0119-03
  • Description: Lili is the sister of Chief Anga, and Nebaliya is his cousin. They are both good looking girls and have been much photographed and praised by visitors to their village near Paulis. These Sudanic girls have the typical slanting eyes and long upper eyelids associated with Mangbetu group, but more commonly seen in China rather than Africa. Party song with basket rattles.
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  • Date Issued: 1952

Anare mangede ude-we

- Eungane and Mbutu people, Hugh Tracey

Angela

- Mvu men, Hugh Tracey

Biya

- Gemba and Mbati soilders, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Gemba and Mbati soilders , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Bangba (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Libenge f-cg
  • Language: Mbati
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166743 , vital:41399 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0119-22
  • Description: "You are my only child, if you die I shall be buried with you." These hefty young soilders sing a lullaby used by their women folk at home, in the north western corner of the Congo which forms the boundary between the Congo and old French Wquatorial Africa. Lullaby with hand clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1952

Chyoko

- Segbe and Ndongo men and women, Hugh Tracey

Congo Bereji

- Mayogo men and women, led by Chief Anga, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Mayogo men and women, led by Chief Anga , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Bangba (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Mayogo f-cg
  • Language: Mayogo/Bazo
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166467 , vital:41367 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0118-06
  • Description: The Ebi dance has several variations which all follow the general pattern of a circular dance file. The men take the inner circle and the girls the outer, and the drums are outside the ring. The traditional dress for the men is a black or black and red loin cloth made of bark fibre. This is passed between the legs and up over the hips to the waist. It is held in place by a belt and the stiff cloth when properly set gives the impression of a large black tulip in which the mans torso rides on 2 legs. The most attractive feature of these Mangbetu style dance is the bright scarlet headress of the dancers made of tail feathers of the Congo grey parrot. They are a great treasure to these people, feathers representing part of the token payment of a bride's 'lobolo' or bride 'dowry'. They are said to represent a sign of wealth or social position in the tribe. Ebi dance with 1 large wodden cylindrical slit drum, 2 small wooden cylindrical slit drums, 2 wooden pod drums, 2 large conical laced drums, 1 double metal bell.
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  • Date Issued: 1952

Diya Kilango

- Zegive and Mvu people, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Zegive and Mvu people , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Bangba (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Watsa f-cg
  • Language: Mvuba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166624 , vital:41386 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0119-09
  • Description: This tribe, like many of the non-Bantu tribes in this North East part of the Congo are very simple people indeed. The country has still few roads and the carrying of officials and others whose work takes into remote parts is still common. The chair or mashila which they carry is locally called Tipoyi. Work song (carrying Sedan chair), with harp, likembe, bells and basket rattle.
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  • Date Issued: 1952

Ebi

- Mayogo men and women, led by Chief Anga, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Mayogo men and women, led by Chief Anga , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Bangba (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Mayogo f-cg
  • Language: Mayogo/Bazo
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166449 , vital:41365 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0118-04
  • Description: All the drums were made at Niangara. Ebi is a circular dance, with men dancing in file anti-clockwise in the inner circle, the girld dancing in file in the outer circle. The conical laced drums are made with elephants' ears, the small slit drums are formed out of a half section of a tree and may be either cylindrical or triangular in shape. The four legs are made out of the remaining half section carved out of one piece with the body of the drum. Ebi dance with 2 wooden pod slit drums, 2 large conical laced drums, 1 metal double bell, 2 small wooden cylindrical drums and 1 large wooden cylindrical slit drum.
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  • Date Issued: 1952

Ebi

- Abangba men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Abangba men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Bangba (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Niangara f-cg
  • Language: Bangba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166426 , vital:41362 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0118-03
  • Description: Gudu-gudu and Ndima are Lingala names for the drums. Gulu and Ngabi are their Abangba names. Bagwase-axe or hoe blades. The instruments were introduced in turns. First, a slit drum; second, a slit drum; a conical drum; fourth, a conical drum; fifth, a conical drum (played with 1 stick and one hand); sixth, pieces of iron. Drum rhythms for the Ebi dance. Two Gudu-gudu slit drums and 3 Ndima conical drums, laced and closed and 2 axe blades (-12.183-).
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  • Date Issued: 1952

Egbi (Death)

- Abangba men and women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Abangba men and women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Bangba (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Watsa f-cg
  • Language: Bangba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166400 , vital:41359 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0118-01
  • Description: Contemplation of death, its inevitability, and its constant appearance, is an important subject in many African folk songs. The apparent joie de vivre displayed at the feast and dance after a funeral is strange to foreign ideas but typical of Africa. Egba funeral dances with Gudu-gudu slit drums, N'dima conical laced drums.
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  • Date Issued: 1952

Gbada

- Bandani with Mayogo men and women, Hugh Tracey

Gbada

- Bandani and Mayogo men and women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Bandani and Mayogo men and women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Bangba (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Mayogo f-cg
  • Language: Mayogo/Bazo
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166519 , vital:41373 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0118-12
  • Description: The railway has reached this spot far into the interior of the Congo. It is a narrow gauge (about 2' 6") line which runs from Aketi on one of the northern tributaries of the Congo eastwards to the edge of the great tropical Ituri forest, In common with many other parts of Africa local railway trains have struck the imagination and figure frequently in song. It is interesting to note the "Ai-yo-o" of the singer so often heard in guitar songs. Party song with a Kombi and 1 Gbe-Kombi Likembe.
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  • Date Issued: 1952

Gbo

- Mayogo men and women, led by Chief Anga, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Mayogo men and women, led by Chief Anga , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Bangba (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Mayogo f-cg
  • Language: Mayogo/Bazo
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166476 , vital:41368 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0118-07
  • Description: The Ebi dance has several variations which all follow the general pattern of a circular dance file. The men take the inner circle and the girls the outer, and the drums are outside the ring. The traditional dress for the men is a black or black and red loin cloth made of bark fibre. This is passed between the legs and up over the hips to the waist. It is held in place by a belt and the stiff cloth when properly set gives the impression of a large black tulip in which the mans torso rides on 2 legs. The most attractive feature of these Mangbetu style dance is the bright scarlet headress of the dancers made of tail feathers of the Congo grey parrot. They are a great treasure to these people, feathers representing part of the token payment of a bride's 'lobolo' or bride 'dowry'. They are said to represent a sign of wealth or social position in the tribe. Ebi dance with 1 large wodden cylindrical slit drum, 2 small wooden cylindrical slit drums, 2 wooden pod drums, 2 large conical laced drums, 1 double metal bell.
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  • Date Issued: 1952

Gowu

- Francois Kokomendre, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Francois Kokomendre , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Bangba (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Amasu f-cg
  • Language: Mombutu
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166662 , vital:41390 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0119-14
  • Description: The settings of this zither are made of Kekere cane, the board is Ndete, the resonator (gourd) called the Gara. The strings give out a surprisingly loud note. Only four of the strings were used. "I am a Mombutu and my people were defeated by the Bese." Nostalgic song with zither, Seki 5 strings.
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  • Date Issued: 1952

Imbo Kunyangwa

- Safare Dewu, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Safare Dewu , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Bangba (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Djugu f-cg
  • Language: Balendu
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166698 , vital:41394 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0119-17
  • Description: "I am afraid of being beaten." The instrument is the 5 stringed Bonguma horizontal, arched harp, the bowl is made of wooden trough. The performer returned his instrument between the first and second song. The second tuning is:- 356, 328, 288, 256, 208. Topical song with harp.
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  • Date Issued: 1952

Indondoli

- Chief Anga with Mayogo men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Chief Anga with Mayogo men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Bangba (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Mayogo f-cg
  • Language: Mayogo/Bazo
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166552 , vital:41378 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0119-01
  • Description: The Mayogo are a Sudanic people who came under the influence of the Mangbetu and adopted their ways and customs including that of lengthening the shape of the skull by binding the heads of very young children every day. The bandages are taken off each night and replaced in the morning. Before the child is 2 years old the skull is set into elongated shape. Ni ill effects can be detected by medical men from this practise. Topical song with basket rattle Kekese.
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  • Date Issued: 1952

Kpadi mangbokpa

- Chief Anga with Mayogo men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Chief Anga with Mayogo men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Bangba (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Mayogo f-cg
  • Language: Mayogo/Bazo
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166561 , vital:41379 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0119-02
  • Description: The Mayogo are a Sudanic people who came under the influence of the Mangbetu and adopted their ways and customs including that of lengthening the shape of the skull by binding the heads of very young children every day. The bandages are taken off each night and replaced in the morning. Before the child is 2 years old the skull is set into elongated shape. Ni ill effects can be detected by medical men from this practise. Topical song with basket rattle Kekese.
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  • Date Issued: 1952

Kugama I

- Segbe and Ndongo men and women, Hugh Tracey

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