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Staharaki kwa tendo

- Saadani Abdu Kandoro, Hugh Tracey

Suchi

- Chepkorir and 4 small Kipsigis girls, Hugh Tracey

Sumpalumi

- Sanyenke Gethula with Sukuma men, Hugh Tracey

Suzgu muyaya

- Beti Kamanga, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Beti Kamanga , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Songs, Chewa , Chewa (African people) , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Musical instruments , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Chinteche f-mw
  • Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja , Tonga (Nyasa)
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184812 , vital:44274 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR187-01
  • Description: "Men from our country are living in Rhodesia with other tribes. While we, left at home, are enduring all the difficulties of Nyasaland (Present day Malawi)." This is well supported by the statistics (1950); it is said that of 20,000 Tonga of this Chinteche District, 8,000 have left permantely from Southern and Northern Rhodesia and South Africa, another 8,000 are away and expected to return within 5 years, and 4,000 only remain in the country, most of whom will be off again as soon as their money is spent. The women and old men are left to do all the agricultural and home work. Topical song with Bangwe raft zither, 7 strings
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Swaluu-Alah maachini-l-imaan I

- Watoto wa Madrasa el-Hasanain, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Watoto wa Madrasa el-Hasanain , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Tanzania , Swahili-speaking peoples , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Dar-es-Salaam f-tz
  • Language: Swahili
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179478 , vital:43069 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR169-11
  • Description: All items on this disc are included as example of the African adoptation of Arabic styles of music on the coast. This choice is composed of 12 young Swahili boys with a man soloist (el-ustadh) and three teachers playing the "duff" tambourines. Arabic and the lingua franca, Swahili, are part of the inheritance of all the coast dwellers and on the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba. It is interesting to note how easily these African born Swahili children appear to adopt Arabic music with far greater facility that the efforts of most African children to sing European songs Kasida, Moslem Religious chants, with 3 Duff frame drums (tambourines).
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Swaluu-Alah maachini-l-imaan II

- Watoto wa Madrasa el-Hasanain, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Watoto wa Madrasa el-Hasanain , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Tanzania , Swahili-speaking peoples , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Dar-es-Salaam f-tz
  • Language: Swahili
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179491 , vital:43070 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR169-12
  • Description: All items on this disc are included as example of the African adoptation of Arabic styles of music on the coast. This choice is composed of 12 young Swahili boys with a man soloist (el-ustadh) and three teachers playing the "duff" tambourines. Arabic and the lingua franca, Swahili, are part of the inheritance of all the coast dwellers and on the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba. It is interesting to note how easily these African born Swahili children appear to adopt Arabic music with far greater facility that the efforts of most African children to sing European songs Kasida, Moslem Religious chants, with 3 Duff frame drums (tambourines).
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Swaluu-Alah manyaana bilbay yinatil

- Watoto wa Madrasa el-Hasanain, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Watoto wa Madrasa el-Hasanain , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Tanzania , Swahili-speaking peoples , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Dar-es-Salaam f-tz
  • Language: Swahili
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179496 , vital:43071 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR169-13
  • Description: All items on this disc are included as example of the African adoptation of Arabic styles of music on the coast. This choice is composed of 12 young Swahili boys with a man soloist (el-ustadh) and three teachers playing the "duff" tambourines. Arabic and the lingua franca, Swahili, are part of the inheritance of all the coast dwellers and on the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba. It is interesting to note how easily these African born Swahili children appear to adopt Arabic music with far greater facility that the efforts of most African children to sing European songs Kasida, Moslem Religious chants, with 3 Duff frame drums (tambourines).
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Tahadhari, tahadhari, dunia ina maahara

- Saadani Abdu Kandoro, Hugh Tracey

Tahadhari, tahadhari, dunia ina maahara

- Saadani Abdu Kandoro, Hugh Tracey

Talatany chebwomut

- Chemutoi Ketienya with Kipsigis girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Chemutoi Ketienya with Kipsigis girls , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Kipsigis (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Sotik f-ke
  • Language: Kipsigis
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/177061 , vital:42787 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR164-18
  • Description: The mysterious singer and dancer, Chemirocha has been turned into a local god pan with the feet of an antelope, half beast, half man. He is urged by the girls to do the leaping dance familiar to all Kipsigis so energetically that he will jump clear out of his clothes. The name Chemirocha is based upon the guitarist Jimmy Rodgers. Humourous song, with Chepkong 6 string bowl lyre.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Tamanaito angare nanyoki

- Baiyani Medurek with Arusha men, Hugh Tracey

Tanganyika Part I

- Yobwa Chapi with Gogo men and women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Yobwa Chapi with Gogo men and women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Gogo (African people) , Songs, Gogo , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Mvumi f-tz
  • Language: Gogo
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/174272 , vital:42461 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR155-04
  • Description: "Let us play the Zeze lute so that we can remember our old songs. Do not sing in a hurry. Take your time. We, the Gogo are singing in Tanganyika the land of our birth. Why do people sing all my tunes?" A lovely slow chant in which all the people joined, men, women and chidldren. It is clear that the Gogo are a poetic people with great lyrical ability. The local composer comes forward and starts each line for the people to follow. The song was recorded out in the open in the village of Mvumi without reharsal of any kind. It seems likely that it could have continued almost indefinitely, but the exigencies of the recording apparatus and the fact that it was taken before the advent of long playing records made abbreviation necessary. The unexpected loud passages were unfortunately slightly over modulated but, with the technical faults except this recording gives a fair idea of the artistic ca[abilities of these remarkable performers. The recording is in two parts, the second pitched lower than the first and accompanied by a flute obligato which has little if any direct bearing on the melody itself. Nindo praise song with Mulanzi flute in Part II.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Tanganyika Part II

- Yobwa Chapi with Gogo men and women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Yobwa Chapi with Gogo men and women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Gogo (African people) , Songs, Gogo , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Mvumi f-tz
  • Language: Gogo
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/174278 , vital:42462 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR155-05
  • Description: "Let us play the Zeze lute so that we can remember our old songs. Do not sing in a hurry. Take your time. We, the Gogo are singing in Tanganyika the land of our birth. Why do people sing all my tunes?" A lovely slow chant in which all the people joined, men, women and chidldren. It is clear that the Gogo are a poetic people with great lyrical ability. The local composer comes forward and starts each line for the people to follow. The song was recorded out in the open in the village of Mvumi without reharsal of any kind. It seems likely that it could have continued almost indefinitely, but the exigencies of the recording apparatus and the fact that it was taken before the advent of long playing records made abbreviation necessary. The unexpected loud passages were unfortunately slightly over modulated but, with the technical faults except this recording gives a fair idea of the artistic ca[abilities of these remarkable performers. The recording is in two parts, the second pitched lower than the first and accompanied by a flute obligato which has little if any direct bearing on the melody itself. Nindo praise song with Mulanzi flute in Part II.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Tangu kwata m'cembele

- Khwele Kwenda, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Khwele Kwenda , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Songs, Chewa , Chewa (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Lilongwe f-mw
  • Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/186498 , vital:44505 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR191-09
  • Description: The Sansi was fixed onto the Chigubu resonator by three point suspensions, 2 at the straining bar and 1 at the foot, all secured by bark string. The Njela (s. and pl.) reeds were made from the spokes of an umbrella and the player said that in times past the reeds used to be made of bamboo. "I married three girls, later I found that all three were unfaithful to me so I decided to marry one fully grown woman instead." Tuning:- 704, 584, 520, 448, 384, (352 missing), 332, 292, 260, 224, 176. This pentatonic sansi mbira is mounted in the mouth of a gourd resonator with a number of pieces of tin as buzzers, Mangwere, attached to two thirds of the periphery of the gourd. Self delectative song, with Sansi mbira
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Tate o mwale de

- Shawa, Govati, Chewa women, Hugh Tracey

Te-reterere

- Shaba Kasiani with Chaga men, Hugh Tracey

Tich mabere

- Zedekia Ochow, Hugh Tracey

Tikumbuka Vifya

- Beti Kamanga, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Beti Kamanga , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Chinteche f-mw
  • Language: Tumbuka
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184597 , vital:44239 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR186-04
  • Description: The line of great hills which run up along the North Western flank of the Lake Nyasa is called Vipya in the south and Vifya among the Tongs in the north. The song refers to the tragic loss of the Lake steamer 'Vipya' in 1947, which was named after the hills, while she was carrying pilgrims crossing the lake to go to Dar-es-Salaam. Lament
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Timuke nanu oiya

- Khwele Kwenda, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Khwele Kwenda , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Songs, Chewa , Chewa (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Lilongwe f-mw
  • Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/186523 , vital:44508 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR191-11
  • Description: The Sansi was fixed onto the Chigubu resonator by three point suspensions, 2 at the straining bar and 1 at the foot, all secured by bark string. The Njela (s. and pl.) reeds were made from the spokes of an umbrella and the player said that in times past the reeds used to be made of bamboo. "Although I am so quiet, Mother, I still have many troubles because of my poverty." Simple song by a man who earns part of his living by playing and singing as one of his feet is affected by leprosy and he can do no other work. Self delectative song, with Sansi mbira
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Tisankhe lero

- Chewa girls at Mwase, Hugh Tracey

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