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Aleluya mambo wakamuka muvafi

- Gwenzi Gwasera and friend, Tracey, Hugh

Biza rashe

- Simon Mashoko, Tracey, Hugh

Magonde

- Gwenzi Gwasera, Tracey, Hugh

Mbiriviri

- Simon Mashoko, Tracey, Hugh

Ndoita wejongwe

- Simon Mashoko, Tracey, Hugh

Nhiura

- Gwenzi Gwasera, Tracey, Hugh

Nyamaropa

- Gwenzi Gwasera, Tracey, Hugh

Amai vachauya

- Tapera, Jege, Tracey, Andrew T N

Chamutengure

- Tapera, Jege, Tracey, Andrew T N

Amasewe mukadzi wakanaka (The beauty)

- Joseph Ngonyama Shumba, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Joseph Ngonyama Shumba , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Karanga (African people) , Folk songs, Shona , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Fort Victoria, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
  • Language: Shona, Karanga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154314 , vital:39646 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR081-07
  • Description: The player is an accomplished performer, he works for the Fort Victoria Municipality on the local roads with the grader. This song is the best known and popular in the Sipangabera district of Portuguese East Africa. It is, they say the first of all songs in the region. The word 'Amasewe' means 'mother-in-law' and the gist of the song is that a certain young man went to a nearby village where he got himself a wife and his mother-in-law kept on remarking how handsome he was. Self delectative song with mbira dzawaNdau.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Amasewe mukadzi wakanaka (The beauty)

- Joseph Ngonyama Shumba, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Joseph Ngonyama Shumba , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Karanga (African people) , Folk songs, Shona , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Fort Victoria, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
  • Language: Shona, Karanga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154309 , vital:39647 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR081-07
  • Description: The player is an accomplished performer, he works for the Fort Victoria Municipality on the local roads with the grader. This song is the best known and popular in the Sipangabera district of Portuguese East Africa. It is, they say the first of all songs in the region. The word 'Amasewe' means 'mother-in-law' and the gist of the song is that a certain young man went to a nearby village where he got himself a wife and his mother-in-law kept on remarking how handsome he was. Self delectative song with mbira dzawaNdau.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1958

Baya wa baya (Kill, stab)

- Peter Dudurai Shiri and 4 Karanga men, Hugh Tracey

Chipindura (To turn over)

- Tawagaza Sibanda, Hugh Tracey

Chisisi zano rine godo

- M. Runesu Gumbo, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: M. Runesu Gumbo , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Karanga (African people) , Folk songs, Shona , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Fort Victoria, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
  • Language: Shona, Karanga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154159 , vital:39615 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR080-06
  • Description: This singer makes up all his accompaniments for his humorous songs and sketches which are in the true line of rombe minstrel material. "Little sister, your idea is a jealous one. I go fetch firewood, you brought back ants. I go to the stream, you brought back dirty water, I go pound, you grind very coarsely, I go to cook, you cook undercooked food, I go to cut, you cut off to much, I go to take relish, you make it all dirty, I go to work in the fields, you go for young men, I go to wash clothes, you remain dirty, Little sister, your idea is a jealous one. Chisisi is taken from the English word 'sister' with the Karanga dimunitive 'chi'. Story song with Mbira.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

E. Gukuku (Pack up)

- M. Runesu Gumbo, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: M. Runesu Gumbo , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Karanga (African people) , Folk songs, Shona , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Fort Victoria, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
  • Language: Shona, Karanga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154179 , vital:39619 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR080-07
  • Description: This singer makes up all his accompaniments for his humorous songs and sketches which are in the true line of rombe minstrel material. This wife had nothing to do, so she packed up her clothes and left. The people there did not like her. (Wife) "Pack up quickly, pack up quick. Is this the reason why you took me from my homw? Why do you give me this sorrow? This tray of my mother's, I will never leave it here. This that I brought with me from my home." (Man) "Take it away! Do you think I cannot get another wife?" (Wife) "Your mother gave you a dog's heart to eat! Your mother! Had I known all this I would never have come." (Mother-in-law) "Leave her, let her go! Do you think all women are as bad as her?" (Man) "You, mother, you gave me bad advice." Humorous song.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1958

Godo (Bones)

- Esteri Shumba and 4 Karanga women, Hugh Tracey

Hama dza warumi (The husband's relatives)

- Esteri Shumba and a group of Karanga men and women, Hugh Tracey

Handina mwana (I have no child)

- Pineas Hungwe, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Pineas Hungwe , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Karanga (African people) , Folk songs, Shona , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Fort Victoria, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
  • Language: Shona, Karanga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154355 , vital:39651 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR081-11
  • Description: I have no child. But if you want to see a jackal go along the river bank and you will find a jackal there. Jackal, what killed my child? Jackal, will you be my child? The singer is blind and as with so many blind musicians he lets his fancy roam into poetry. Who and what the jackal might represent can only be conjecture. The lack of a child is a continual source of lamentation among many Africans. Lament with Chizambi musical bow.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1958

Jerusarima (Jerusalem)

- Wambai, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Wambai , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Karanga (African people) , Folk songs, Shona , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Chibi District, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
  • Language: Shona, Karanga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154540 , vital:39744 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR082-06
  • Description: The name of the this tune 'Jerusarima' is an adaptation of 'Jerusalem'. The title was given originally to a new style of dancing started by pupils in the schools in the early 1920's or even earlier. The dance is no longer popular but several of the Jerusarima melodies survive as adaptations on various instruments. Self delectative song with Chipendani bow.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1958

Joki rakafa (Joki is dead)

- Group of 5 Karanga men, Hugh Tracey

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