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Sengemela

- Manyanga, Peter with Hangaza women, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Manyanga, Peter with Hangaza women , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Zinza (African people) , Rundi (African people) , Nyamwezi (African people) , Folk songs, Rundi , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Shanga f-tz
  • Language: Rundi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172808 , vital:42284 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR147-13
  • Description: It is significant that an Ndau man from the South East of Southern Rhodesian on hearing these songs claimed that the style of singing and the sound of the words were very like his own. It is believed that the five related tribes of Southern Rhodesia, now called Shona a common Hima strain from the north, and may well indicate a link with the legend of the Hima Bachwezi, who, the Rundi and Tutsi maintain, came down with them from the north but did not stay and went on south. The features of the singers showed a strong Hamite strain although clearly semi-Bantu. The fourth song has unusally clever little melody. These people come from the border of Rundi-Urundi (Rwanda) in Ngala district. Topical song, with clapping
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Shing’angali nadosano

- Kulaja, Kulola with Sukuma men, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Kulaja, Kulola with Sukuma men , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Nyamwezi (African people) , Sukuma (African people) , Folk songs, Sukuma , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Mwanza f-tz
  • Language: Nyamwezi , Sukuma
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173558 , vital:42384 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR151-15
  • Description: Sukuma people are broadly divided into, two, competitive socities, like the supporters of 'Light Blues' and 'Dark Blues' on boatrace day. Members of the same family may belong to either society. Before dancing in competition with each other there are frequent arguments as to who shall start first. This song is said to be very popular in the district. Wigasha song
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Simba lumi

- Gethula, Sanyenke with Sukuma men, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Gethula, Sanyenke with Sukuma men , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Nyamwezi (African people) , Sukuma (African people) , Folk songs, Sukuma , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Kisesa f-tz
  • Language: Nyamwezi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173397 , vital:42366 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR150-14
  • Description: "The lion has spots like a leopard. He is a brave fighter." Tribal fighting is still within living memory of the Sukuma and the old songs can still be heard occasionally in the country.Their neighbours still raid them for their cattle and have to be fought off. Why the lion should have spots like a leopard is not clear, except that a young lion retains for a while the spotted marks with which it is born. Fighting song.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Sinyenye mama

- Mukhunganilwa with Nyamwezi women, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Mukhunganilwa with Nyamwezi women , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Zinza (African people) , Rundi (African people) , Nyamwezi (African people) , Folk songs, Rundi , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Tabora f-tz
  • Language: Nyamwezi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172970 , vital:42303 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR148-07
  • Description: "When it became clear that my friend had no drums, I went to her to tell her that we had drums." In this area most of the domestic work in European houses is done by men, familiarly called 'boy'. The woman mentioned in the song became a domestic servant, but, the song says, she repented her decision and preferred to get married and have a home of her own. The connection between this song and the divination of the old woman who sanf it is not clear. Migabo is said to be the name of a group of older people, mostly women, who believe in the power of divination to assist their friends and relatives. Migabo divination songs, with 3 conical laced drums, and 4 gourd rattles (-12.54-).
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Siwe woronka

- Mako, Serina with Hangaza women, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Mako, Serina with Hangaza women , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Zinza (African people) , Rundi (African people) , Nyamwezi (African people) , Folk songs, Rundi , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Shanga f-tz
  • Language: Rundi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172832 , vital:42287 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR147-16
  • Description: It is significant that an Ndau man from the South East of Southern Rhodesian on hearing these songs claimed that the style of singing and the sound of the words were very like his own. It is believed that the five related tribes of Southern Rhodesia, now called Shona a common Hima strain from the north, and may well indicate a link with the legend of the Hima Bachwezi, who, the Rundi and Tutsi maintain, came down with them from the north but did not stay and went on south. The features of the singers showed a strong Hamite strain although clearly semi-Bantu. The fourth song has unusally clever little melody. These people come from the border of Rundi-Urundi (Rwanda) in Ngala district. Topical song, with clapping
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Sumpalumi

- Gethula, Sanyenke with Sukuma men, Tracey, Hugh

Tukandikwa mazina

- Lugembe, Kabadiko with Sukuma men and women, Tracey, Hugh

Tula bongela heya = We are talking, yes!

- Selemani, Idi with Nyamwezi men and women, Tracey, Hugh

Tulamugishe mwamasala

- Mwanaguthondo, Lugingisi with Sukuma men and women, Tracey, Hugh

Tulaongela heya

- Ishla, Kasomangila Husen, Tracey, Hugh

Uhimila isekanakali nasukumbe = Uhilila was our best dancer

- Nyela, Juma Bin, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Nyela, Juma Bin , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Nyamwezi (African people) , Sukuma (African people) , Folk songs, Sukuma , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Mwadui f-tz
  • Language: Nyamwezi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173356 , vital:42362 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR150-11
  • Description: "Uhimila was so fine a dancer that even Kihimyali would bow down and clap his hands." All African tribes seem to idolize their good dances. The cutting of cicatrices on the face is accompanied by songs such as these, and by festivities and dancing. There is a local breed of fowls which have no feathers on their necks and very red skin. The song refers to a certain diviner who used to smear his face and neck with red earth. The people of the village can be heard chatting and laughing during the song, and a bird can be heard in the background of the second song. Ucheyeki song for cutting cicatrices.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Umanga ukasilagayo

- Amani, Masudi Bini, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Amani, Masudi Bini , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Nyamwezi (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Itetemia f-tz
  • Language: Nyamwezi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173143 , vital:42337 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR149-04
  • Description: This song which is of very old origin, they say, has always been sung for the chief on special occasions. Recently (1950) it was sung to the retirire Provincial Commissioner of the Western Province at Tabora. Chief's song with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Umulugu wa Yakobo

- Sekenge, Wonkhama, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Sekenge, Wonkhama , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Nyamwezi (African people) , Sukuma (African people) , Folk songs, Sukuma , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Mwadui f-tz
  • Language: Nyamwezi , Sukuma
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173477 , vital:42375 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR151-06
  • Description: "This year we expect to have a lot of sisal and therefore a lot of money. But some of our friends will lose because the grasshoppers have eaten their grain crops." The high price of sisal this year (1950) has created a demand and the local Sukuma have been cutting their sisal hedges and getting the fibre for sale to Indian buyers. A few days after this song was sung an order had to be issued by the authorities forbidding, temporarily, the buying of sisal as the Sukuma were neglecting to harvest both their grain and cotton crops which were being left to spoil in the fields. There is a sound fo drums in the distance at the beginning of the song. Busatsi dance song form men and women.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Usambo wakasenga

- Amam, Masudi Bini, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Amam, Masudi Bini , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Zinza (African people) , Rundi (African people) , Nyamwezi (African people) , Folk songs, Rundi , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Tabora f-tz
  • Language: Nyamwezi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173018 , vital:42312 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR148-11
  • Description: A song congratulating the Chief Fundikira on his method of stopping thieving in the country. He made wide areas collectively responsible for finding the thief. Thieving had become so bad, both from houses and from standing crops, that it called for drastic treatment. It appears that in the end all persons who had in the past been convicted of theiving were collected together and warned by the chief that every time there was a burglary they would all have to come to his headquaters and account for themselves. The sonstant journeys to the chief which this entailed had its effect and the known thieves volunteered to end the crime wave. This they did effectively and thus Chief Fundikira proved the virtue of the saying "Set a thief to catch a thief." Topical song, with 3 conical drums, 2 played with sticks and 1 with hands.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Uswezi I

- Uwilula with old Nyamwezi women, Tracey, Hugh

Uswezi II

- Uwilula with old Nyamwezi women, Tracey, Hugh

Uwi, mamsaga makumbulage wagela mnyabo

- Selemani, Idi, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Selemani, Idi , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Zinza (African people) , Rundi (African people) , Nyamwezi (African people) , Folk songs, Rundi , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Dar-es-Salaam f-tz
  • Language: Nyamwezi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173044 , vital:42316 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR148-14
  • Description: "You are talking a lot these days my friend, I am sure you will be sad when Nyahinga dies." Nyahinga, they said, is known to be very good singer in Nyamwezi country. Idi Selemani, the leader 'lines' the verses to be sung by the chorus of his friends. The soloist, Idi is a well known and much beloved comedian in his own society of Nyamwezi people living in Dar-es-Salaam and is a joy to watch. His antics and feigned anger are masterly acting. The singer starts the third song with the familiar cry of the 2nd King's African Rifles, "Seken-Seken, K.A.R. Namba wantu. Humorous song with clapping, with clapping and 1 Goblet drum (-14.52101-).
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Uyo mayo kuwa boyi

- Mukhunganilwa with Nyamwezi women, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Mukhunganilwa with Nyamwezi women , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Zinza (African people) , Rundi (African people) , Nyamwezi (African people) , Folk songs, Rundi , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Tabora f-tz
  • Language: Nyamwezi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172975 , vital:42305 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR148-08
  • Description: "The woman worked as a 'boy'." In this area most of the domestic work in European houses is done by men, familiarly called 'boy'. The woman mentioned in the song became a domestic servant, but, the song says, she repented her decision and preferred to get married and have a home of her own. The connection between this song and the divination of the old woman who sanf it is not clear. Migabo is said to be the name of a group of older people, mostly women, who believe in the power of divination to assist their friends and relatives. Migabo divination songs, with 3 conical laced drums, and 4 gourd rattles (-12.54-).
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Wa selenge nina kitabu cha mauridi = My beloved, I have a book of prayers

- Selemani, Idi, Tracey, Hugh

Wangereza safi

- Mihabo, Nyamugumi, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Mihabo, Nyamugumi , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Nyamwezi (African people) , Sukuma (African people) , Folk songs, Sukuma , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Dar-es-Salaam f-tz
  • Language: Nyamwezi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173282 , vital:42353 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR150-05
  • Description: 'The English are a straight forward, good and polite people. They are as good as drinking water and are not hasty, this is a good dance for boys, come and join us." The singers are all Nyamwezi who have come down to the East coast from the interior near Tabora and have now settled permanently at the coast in or around Dar-es-Salaam. These Nyamwezi singers of Dar-es-Salaam have an attractive way of singing their songs repeating each stanza after the soloist. This style may well have been copied from the Arabs or Swahili. Tatu Binti Ali is the young wife of Idi Selemani the organiser of the group. Hiyari ya moyo dance song for men and women..
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  • Date Issued: 1950
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