Tukulanga
- Mzee Juma with Shirazi men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Mzee Juma with Shirazi men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Tanzania , Swahili-speaking peoples , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Zanzibar f-tz
- Language: Swahili
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179938 , vital:43252 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR171-07
- Description: The player takes some time to get into his rhythm. The first tune was played ith the instrument on the ground, the first fingers striking the notes downwards. The second tune was played with the instrument between the palms and plucked with the thumbs in the more usual manner. Instrumental tune, Marimba Madongo.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Mzee Juma with Shirazi men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Tanzania , Swahili-speaking peoples , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Zanzibar f-tz
- Language: Swahili
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179938 , vital:43252 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR171-07
- Description: The player takes some time to get into his rhythm. The first tune was played ith the instrument on the ground, the first fingers striking the notes downwards. The second tune was played with the instrument between the palms and plucked with the thumbs in the more usual manner. Instrumental tune, Marimba Madongo.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Usione kwenda mbele, kurudi nyuma si kazi
- Saadani Abdu Kandoro, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Saadani Abdu Kandoro , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Tanzania , Swahili-speaking peoples , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Kigoma f-tz
- Language: Swahili
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179455 , vital:43066 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR169-09
- Description: "Think not that as you now go on. You will not yet go back." Short poem revealing an interesting side of the African poet's mind. Mashairi sung poem
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Saadani Abdu Kandoro , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Tanzania , Swahili-speaking peoples , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Kigoma f-tz
- Language: Swahili
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179455 , vital:43066 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR169-09
- Description: "Think not that as you now go on. You will not yet go back." Short poem revealing an interesting side of the African poet's mind. Mashairi sung poem
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Usione kwenda mbele, kurudi nyuma si kazi
- Saadani Abdu Kandoro, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Saadani Abdu Kandoro , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Tanzania , Swahili-speaking peoples , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Kigoma f-tz
- Language: Swahili
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179453 , vital:43065 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR169-09
- Description: "Think not that as you now go on. You will not yet go back." Short poem revealing an interesting side of the African poet's mind. Mashairi sung poem
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Saadani Abdu Kandoro , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Tanzania , Swahili-speaking peoples , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Kigoma f-tz
- Language: Swahili
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179453 , vital:43065 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR169-09
- Description: "Think not that as you now go on. You will not yet go back." Short poem revealing an interesting side of the African poet's mind. Mashairi sung poem
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Wachawe wananipata
- Simai Bini Ali with Swahili men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Simai Bini Ali with Swahili men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Tanzania , Swahili-speaking peoples , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Zanzibar f-tz
- Language: Swahili
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179884 , vital:43245 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR171-01
- Description: This short song is used for waking up the people for their last meal-the second of the night during the fast of Ramadhan. The singers go around singing and playing the drum at about 1-2 a.m. It is a picturesque Swahili/Mohammedan custom. The to membranes of the bass drum are tuned to different notes. Kigoma cha daku songs, with 2 tin rattles, 1 double-sided bass drum.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Simai Bini Ali with Swahili men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Tanzania , Swahili-speaking peoples , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Zanzibar f-tz
- Language: Swahili
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179884 , vital:43245 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR171-01
- Description: This short song is used for waking up the people for their last meal-the second of the night during the fast of Ramadhan. The singers go around singing and playing the drum at about 1-2 a.m. It is a picturesque Swahili/Mohammedan custom. The to membranes of the bass drum are tuned to different notes. Kigoma cha daku songs, with 2 tin rattles, 1 double-sided bass drum.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Wacheni tamaa (Do not covet)
- Ramadhani Fataki (Udi), Saidi Salum Nana (Mandoline) and Tatu Binti Jama, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Ramadhani Fataki (Udi), Saidi Salum Nana (Mandoline) and Tatu Binti Jama , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Tanzania , Swahili-speaking peoples , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Tabora f-tz
- Language: Swahili
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179660 , vital:43130 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR170-10
- Description: The Arab influence is still strong up country particularly along the old Arab trading routes. All the seven items on this side of the disc represent an evening's entertainment spent with a Mohamedan Swahili family in Tabora whose taste in music leans towrds the Arab side of the family than the African. Two close friends who frequently play together in the evenings recorded these items. The wife of one of them provides some of the solos. They are typical, no doubt, of a musical evening at home by Swahili players anywhere in East Africa. All the items were recorded in the small sitting room of their Swahili home. The men singers sat around a table in the light of a parafin lamp and their veiled womenfolk sat on mats in the adjoining rooms, watching through the doorways. "Do not covet because there is no colour bar in jail. Even though you go to London and become a Barrister at law if you are in trouble you are in trouble just the same. I am a somebody at my home but prison they regard me as a nobody" Topical Taarab song, with 1 Udi, 1 Mandoline and 1 Duff tambourine drum (-14.91-).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Ramadhani Fataki (Udi), Saidi Salum Nana (Mandoline) and Tatu Binti Jama , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Tanzania , Swahili-speaking peoples , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Tabora f-tz
- Language: Swahili
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179660 , vital:43130 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR170-10
- Description: The Arab influence is still strong up country particularly along the old Arab trading routes. All the seven items on this side of the disc represent an evening's entertainment spent with a Mohamedan Swahili family in Tabora whose taste in music leans towrds the Arab side of the family than the African. Two close friends who frequently play together in the evenings recorded these items. The wife of one of them provides some of the solos. They are typical, no doubt, of a musical evening at home by Swahili players anywhere in East Africa. All the items were recorded in the small sitting room of their Swahili home. The men singers sat around a table in the light of a parafin lamp and their veiled womenfolk sat on mats in the adjoining rooms, watching through the doorways. "Do not covet because there is no colour bar in jail. Even though you go to London and become a Barrister at law if you are in trouble you are in trouble just the same. I am a somebody at my home but prison they regard me as a nobody" Topical Taarab song, with 1 Udi, 1 Mandoline and 1 Duff tambourine drum (-14.91-).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950